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- * dBase Book Review *
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- * By: John Oaks <SUJOS> *
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- Book Reveiw of
- "dbase II A Comprehensive User's Manual"
- Kerman D. Bharucha
- Tab Book House,Inc
- isbn 0-8306-1884-8
-
- Review by John D. Oaks
- Assisted by Stacey Oaks
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-
- It seems any bookstore you go in these days has shelves and
- shelves of books on msdos, Lotus 1,2,3, dbase III plus and
- other IBM related subjects. However, it is getting harder to find
- books on dbase II and other CP/M related topics.
-
- I was at a Waldens the other day, and there in the middle of all
- the dbase III books was a dbase II book. I immediately picked the
- book up and it has become one of my favorites since then.
-
- The author assumes no previous knowledge of dbase, and the first
- few chapters concentrate on the fundamentals of database
- programming.
-
- Part two gets down to the nitty gritty of of creating editing,
- sequencing and reporting by example. The reader sets up a
- sample data base, and each command is throughly explained.
-
- The final part of the book is on advanced features of dbase II,
- such as writing your own applications. There is extensive coverage
- of writing menu driven systems.
-
- All in all, the author does an excellent job of taking the
- reader from no knowledge to being able to write effective
- programs. Every aspect of dbase II is totally explained. The
- beginning dbase user would be hard pressed to find a better
- tutorial.