Re: What has changed in the Apple world last 6 months?

["Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net>]

Ok I wasn't talking specifically of Appleworks databases, of which I know
very little -- do they not offer a table view?

My idea was simply that in most database programs it will keep the headings
on the top as you scroll down because they are not considered part of the
list of data which you are scrolling.

Simon.

"Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> I am no stranger to large ADB files. The Eamon club's membership file was
an
> ADB. And if you were there, you will remember that I was once the guy who
> built and uploaded the monthly GEnie file database, that required over a
> megabyte of desk space just to load and a good bit more to manipulate. I
> built them on my Transwarped 3MB IIe until I finally managed to snag a 4MB
> card for my GS. 4MB cards used to be very hard to come by for a reasonable
> price. The IIe did a perfectly good job, but on a file this size the
> improved compression of GSHK was very worthwhile.
>
> In any event, a database was wholly inappropriate to what I was doing with
> the Eamon ratings. Its purpose was to extract information from the data as
> well as store the raw data itself.
>
> How is the limited cell display space on a IIe improved when it is a
> database rather than a spreadsheet?  This particular spreadsheet ran about
> 35 columns by some 250 rows. The thought of using the individual-record
> display mode does not appeal to me as a way to work through 7500 records.
>
> Tom Zuchowski
>
> "Simon Biber" <simon@basilisk2.cjb.net> wrote in message
> news:PNL_5.20950$xW4.163248@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > You would have been better off with a database than a spreadsheet then.
> > Appleworks does those too :-)
> >
> > Simon.
> >
> > "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> > > I used to keep an enormous Appleworks spreadsheet that tracked user
> > ratings
> > > of Eamon adventures. It was so hard to use that I wound up duplicating
> key
> > > columns and rows over and over again so that I could keep track of
what
> I
> > > was doing on my IIe's tiny screen real estate.
> > >
> > > I find myself much fonder of spreadsheets when they are run at 1024 or
> > 1278
> > > resolutions. <g>
> > >
> > > Tom Zuchowski
> >
> >
> >
>
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