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- From: bruhn@exaib.wu-wien.ac.at ( Peter Bruhn )
- Subject: Re: dBFast
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.133205.2900@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at>
- Sender: news@nestroy.wu-wien.ac.at (NetNews)
- Organization: Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
- References: <Bt6wrE.JJL@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:32:05 GMT
- Lines: 44
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- > 1. Can I use dBFast to make .EXE files for royalty-free distribution,
- > just like with VB?
-
- Your source code is compiled to an intermediary code, that is interpreted
- by a run time module. If you start a compiled program, the run time module
- will be invoked and interpret the intermediaty code. Distribution is
- royalty-free.
-
- > 2. Is there any DLL commercially available for it to speak some
- > SQL with SyBase SQL server running on AT&T Unix System V R4?
-
- I have got no idea.
-
- DbFast seems to work quite well, but there are some weak points that should
- be mentioned:
-
- 1. The documentation is really very poor. As far as dbase commands are concerned
- this is no big problem. Just use your dbase docs. But as soon as you want
- to use additional commands of dbFast (e.g. to do all the Windows stuff),
- you will suffer from the bad docs: Some commands are not even mentioned,
- the arguments of some commands are not explained, so you will have to guess
- what they mean and what you can use as argument (this is especially tricky
- for arguments that ask for text). I don't know anything about books on
- dbFast (Computer Associates doesn't know either, but they promised to check
- it out). So if some kind soul could give me information on additional
- literature on dbFast, I would be more than thankful.
-
- 2. Generating individual reports is a tricky task, especially if you want
- to produce a report with a lot of lines and boxes (printing these reports
- gets quite slow, by the way). If you want to use the print manager, you
- will not be able to change the orientation of the output (Computer
- Associates simply says it is not possible). So I am looking for a DLL
- that does this work (Again I would be very thankful if someone sent me
- information, if such a DLL already exists or how I could implement it
- in Borland C(++).)
-
- 3. The support of Windows-fonts could be better. There are 15 different
- fonts or sizes. But there is no support for centering or deleting these
- fonts. E.g. if you want to delete a font that is bigger than the standard-
- font, you will have to delete more than one line.
-
- But I hope the new version 2.0 that is supposed to come up soon, will eliminate
- at least a part of these problems. I suppose this will be necessary to
- compete with programs like Dbase for Windows.
-