dBASE II manual

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed Jan 28 13:26:11 1998

John,

  Ward is right. The dBase manual is huge and not very helpful. Get a third
party book on dBase. I have Using dBase III Plus by Jones printed by
Osborne-McGraw-Hill. It's an excellent book. As old as dBase is you can
probably find a used book in a trift store or a new one at a closeout at a
regular book store.

   Joe


At 09:32 AM 1/28/98 -0500, you wrote:
>John Higginbotham wrote:
>>
>> Anyone have an extra dBASE II manual they'd be willing to part with? I've
>> got dBASE II in ROM on one of my GRiDCASE 3 laptops, and would like to
>> learn more about it.
>
>If you want to learn dBASE II, the last thing you want is a manual.
>The manuals are so bad that that's what started the whole industry
>of third-party software guides, many of which you can still find in
>stores selling second-hand books. (And I'm not saying this because
>of the feud I had with Ashton-Tate back in the early 80s over whose
>fault it was when dBase II wouldn't work on a TRS-80 Model II with
>Lifeboat Associates CP/M -- it was eventially traced to a poorly
>implement system call by Lifeboat, but Ashton-Tate was no help).
>--
>Ward Griffiths
>Dylan: How many years must some people exist,
> before they're allowed to be free?
>WDG3rd: If they "must" exist until they're "allowed",
> they'll never be free.
>
>
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