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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Subject: Re: Move XBASE compats to own newsgroup
- Message-ID: <viking.726188443@vincent1.iastate.edu>
- Keywords: xbase dbase
- Sender: news@news.iastate.edu (USENET News System)
- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <dtb.726154234@otto>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:00:43 GMT
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- In <dtb.726154234@otto> dtb@otto (David Bath) writes:
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- > fox, clipper, dbase, etc .... all those "xbase" compatibles
- > using "dbase" files deserve their own newsgroup.
-
- > comp.databases should be a general discussion area, with
- > most of the product specific stuff living in their own
- > newsgroups, as comp.databases.(oracle|ingre|sybase) do.
-
- >Who wants to do this ?
-
- I asked for discussion on this about a year and a half ago.
- The net.consensus was that the volume didn't justify the switch at
- that time, and it looks like nothing has changed in that regard.
-
- Perhaps subscribing to bit.listserv.dbase would be of some
- help? It's not particularly dBase specific, so Clipper and Foxpro
- stuff can be sent to the list and to get your results.
-
- < Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu viking@iastate.edu >
- < ISU only censors what I read, not what I say. Don't blame them. >
- < "Are you *SURE* he's worth a Harley-Davidson?" -- my grandmother >
- < to my girlfriend, about me. "I'd better not say" -- my girlfriend >
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