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- From: lkress@reed.edu (Lucien Kress)
- Newsgroups: misc.forsale.computers,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: For Sale: Alpha 4 v.2.1 (for DOS)
- Summary: Award-winning relational DBMS for sale
- Keywords: database
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.021918.19432@reed.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 02:19:18 GMT
- References: <1993Jan5.193026.1@sscvx1.ssc.gov>
- Followup-To: lkress@reed.edu
- Organization: Reed College, Portland, OR
- Lines: 33
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- I have Alpha 4 v.2.1 for sale. This is the newest version of an
- award-winning relational database management system, featured in
- PC Magazine's Best of 1992 issue (Vol. 12, #1, p.114). It is
- dBase-compatible (i.e. uses standard .DBF files) and has an
- intuitive & powerful application creator to develop menu-driven
- applications. This program includes a free zipcode database,
- and (as a bonus) Home Lawyer (seemed like a useless program to
- me, but who knows?).
-
- The retail price is $495; I got it for $99 (version 2.0) + $19.95
- (version 2.1 upgrade); I will sell it to the highest bidder above
- $40 (postage included). It is registered to me, but registration
- is legally transferable.
-
- I will accept bids until January 18, 1992. I will provide the
- current highest bid upon request, and I will notify bidders of
- higher bids _by_request_only_.
-
- Warning: the media is 3.5" disks.
-
- Additional warning: this program allows importing of Lotus 1-2-3
- files. However, if any date field in the Lotus file has a non-date
- entry, Alpha 4 aborts during import and (occasionally) crashes the
- system. This makes the program useless to me; however, this is
- the only bug I know of.
-
- Final warning: a previous, similar posting in December got no bids.
- I won't waste netspace with a third posting. This is a good deal --
- don't miss your chance.
-
- Respond by email to lkress@reed.edu only. Thank you.
-
- Lucien Kress
-