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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Borland Paradox Engine V3.0, AF?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.224658.14302@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <Bx9DHH.4wL@news.udel.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:46:58 GMT
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- In <Bx9DHH.4wL@news.udel.edu> mike@ravel.udel.edu (Michael James Porter) writes:
-
- >Has anyone seen or used the new Paradox Engine? How does the
- >application framework seem? Is it worth the $100?
-
- >(As a registered owner of something (Paradox, BC++?), I received
- >an offer to purchase the new engine for $99, and the engine along
- >with the AF for $199. Something called Crystal Reports is
- >also thrown in)
-
- >Is it possible to write a Windows 3.1 program that makes use of the
- >engine? Paradox 3.5 has a 'Like' operator that seems to do
- >inexact name searching on a table when doing queries. Is this
- >also available in the engine?
-
- I can't speak to the new Engine, but the old one would most certainly
- work under Window; it came with a Windows DLL that you had to include
- and you had to load SHARE (to keep from having multiple things smash
- your DB, I assume).
-
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