Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: $Revision: 1.6.2.16 $; site ISM780.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!cca!ISM780!patrick From: patrick@ISM780.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.pc Subject: Re: Informex vs dBase Message-ID: <31300004@ISM780.UUCP> Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 01:15:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ISM780.31300004 Posted: Tue Aug 13 01:15:00 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 05:17:19 EDT References: <577@mtuxt.UUCP> Lines: 14 Nf-ID: #R:mtuxt:-57700:ISM780:31300004:000:806 Nf-From: ISM780!patrick Aug 13 01:15:00 1985 I've recently started using Informix (on a UNIX system as opposed to DOS), and I'm very impressed. It's a very flexible relational database system, with powerful screen (form) and report generators provided. The latest version (at least in the UNIX) world comes with a query language (RDSQL - their own enhancement of IBM's SQL) which is also extremely powerful (you can create scripts, and run them from the command line). The system interfaces nicely with UNIX; for example, you can run an SQL script from a shell script to extract information and format it into flat files, then pipe it to another shell script for further processing. I've nver used DBase, but I know a little about it from others. If the DOS implementation of Informix is anything like the UNIX one, it's streets ahead of DBase.