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- From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele)
- Subject: Re: Database for use on CD-ROM?
- Message-ID: <C18oLz.6JG@techbook.com>
- Organization: TECHbooks --- Public Access UNIX --- (503) 220-0636
- References: <1993Jan18.210143.23038@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 05:01:07 GMT
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- jahb@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JENNIFER A. HEISE) writes:
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- >Are you sure this index was in fact a GPO product? Most indexes to the Monthly
- >Catalog come through third-party software producers.
- >(For more information on the Clipper/dBase products, try querying GOVDOC-L. I
- >suspect you will be met with wails of despair...)
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- No, I'm not sure. I'll check if I can. (Visions of angry librarians
- chasing me out of the library.) Most products like this have a "patron"
- mode that locks you into selected functions and won't let you drop to
- disk. A quick look at the disk (if they were running Microsoft CD-ROM
- Extensions) would tell me whether it was Clipper or some other dBASE
- product. Thanks for the tip on GOVDOC-L.
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- I've been very surprised at how little information seems to be available
- on CD-ROMs. I guess the Internet is a lot more exciting ...
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