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Subject:RE: If you were going to learn... From:"Lydia Wong" <lydiaw -at- fpoint -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Fri, 8 Mar 2002 10:24:46 -0500
Peter correctly corrected me:
> > back in library science graduate school. We
> > used DB2 (or something like that) to learn about and create our own
> > databases and small database applications
>
> For that application almost everybody used DBase. DB2 would be far too
> expensive and definitly overkill for library databases.
It WAS DBase! Thanks for reminding me, Peter. It was a long time ago, and I
don't know why DB2 got into my head. Yes, it was DBase.
Thanks!
Lydia (who's showing her age!)
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Lydia Wong
Technical Writer
FarPoint Technologies, Inc.
www.fpoint.com
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