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From: patrick@ISM780.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Informex vs dBase
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Date: Tue, 13-Aug-85 01:15:00 EDT
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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.