Re: dbase II on an AII ?

["Thug" <thug5@NOSPAM.optusnet.com.au>]

"Scott Alfter" <salfter@salfter.ncc74656.dyndns.org> wrote in message > >>
Also, were there any other relational DBs fot the Apple II?
> >
> >Many. Appleworks for one!
>
> The AppleWorks database component is not an RDBMS.  You can only work with
> one table at a time, and there's no built-in provision for building a
query
> that accesses multiple tables.  It might be possible to kludge something
> together with UltraMacros that would simulate some of the functionality of
> an RDBMS, but it'd be slow and painful.

Ah well, shows how much I know! I learnt to use dBase II and never bothered
converting to AppleWorks becuase it always came on versions of ProDOS that
didn't work with my clone ][+. (Basic attitude: You make it difficult to use
your software, I'm not going to use your software!) I'd always assumed it
was a RDBMS because it was so ubiquitous.

What about "Cornerstone" produced by Infocom? (Which was their only business
product, I think.) What sort of capabilities did it have? Anybody know?


Michael