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- From: hades@coos.dartmouth.edu (Hades)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: Re: DATABASE for the Mac...How powerful can they get?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.144054.27359@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 14:40:54 GMT
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- ue33+@andrew.cmu.edu (University Entrepreneurs Association) writes:
-
- >I have a Database application that I don't think should be that hard,
- >but I have almost no idea how to do it.
-
- >Is this possible on a Mac Database? Which one?
-
- [Description deleted]
-
- >I really don't know if this is an application better suited for
- >HyperCard, a Spreadsheet, a Project Management Package (MS or Claris'
- >Project), a more sophisticated DataBase package (FoxBase?, but I
- >currently have FileMaker Pro 1.0), or the REALLY inelegant solution of
- >actually just using a folder in the Finder (And generating a HUGE
- >desktop file).
-
- Well, your best bet would be to use Hypercard, because of the level
- interface control you want to have. And in fact this is the kind of
- pseudo-database work that Hypercard is really good at. It doesn't look
- like you need to do a lot of data crunching or cross checking or other
- heavy database type stuff, but you do need ot be able to define a number
- of things about the interface that the use will work with and keep track
- of locations and stuff like that. Based on the choices you mentioned
- above Hypercard is probably your best bet, unless you want to do the
- thing in MPW or Think C.
-
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