Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop From: sysop@stech.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Dbase question Message-ID: <592@stech.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 88 21:33:40 GMT References: <54973@sun.uucp> Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass. Lines: 37 in article <54973@sun.uucp>, amyjo%naima@Sun.COM (Amy Jo Bilson) says: > > Is anyone out there familiar enough with the Dbase (III, etc.) > product to tell me if this system is "multi-user", and if so, > what facilities they provide (i.e. locking, transactions) > > My brother, who owns and runs his own small (5-person) business, > has a rather large investment in Dbase software, and he really needs > to set up a system whereby 3 or 4 users can access the same database, > at (approximately) the same time. > > If Dbase doesn't have this capability, which PC-based database does? > Doesn anyone have a system of this kind set up? > > Thanks in advance-- > dBase can be used as a mulit-user DBMS through the purchase of a dBase LAN PAK ($995). It will run with a number of PC LAN software, including Novell Advanced Netware and 3Com. Some code may have to be modified to accommodate locking, which dBase III Plus does not do very well. dBase IV is supposed to lock records automatically, which should save a lot of grief. In the meanwhile, it has to be done through application programs. Jan Harrington, sysop Scholastech Telecommunications UUCP: ihnp4!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY ******************************************************************************** Miscellaneous profundity: "No matter where you go, there you are." Buckaroo Banzai ********************************************************************************