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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!caen!destroyer!news.iastate.edu!pv34c1.vincent.iastate.edu!moore
  3. From: moore@iastate.edu (Brian J Moore)
  4. Subject: Re: MS ACCESS vs PARADOX/Win
  5. Message-ID: <moore.722206464@pv34c1.vincent.iastate.edu>
  6. Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
  7. Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
  8. References: <1992Nov13.192808.12128@PacBell.COM> <168A180F1.JC924@uacsc2.albany.edu> <8693@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU>
  9. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:54:24 GMT
  10. Lines: 21
  11.  
  12. In <8693@lee.SEAS.UCLA.EDU> weiss@mott.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss) writes:
  13.  
  14. >In article <168A180F1.JC924@uacsc2.albany.edu> JC924@uacsc2.albany.edu writes:
  15. >>And how does Access relate to FoxPro for Windows, which I had assumed was
  16. >>going to be MS's database for Windows?
  17.  
  18. >I asked Microsoft this very question.  They told me that Access is easier to
  19. >use, but less powerful.  They would not go into further detail than that.  It
  20. >kinda pisses me off.
  21.  
  22. I'm not real familiar with FoxPro, but I really don't see anything that
  23. Access won't do at this point, that another DataBase program would.
  24.  
  25. Access needs a runtime engine and more file type support, but it covers
  26. the major ones, and other will probably be out soon.
  27.  
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  31.  /  Brian J. Moore                  /                  moore@iastate.edu /
  32. /__________________________________/____________________________________/
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