CompuServe Messages

LR> In DOS/Windows, what database is out there that is a good relational LR> database and allows the creation of… (pause, it is late and I've LR> forgotten the term) … self running, free standing, you know what I LR> mean. Something where I could create it and produce it ready to run, LR> not raw data to be loaded into your database? Standalone program. In DOS, for low-powered machines (<4MB RAM) I use dBASE IV 1.5 Runtime just because I have it and I'm quick with it, for bigger machines I use dBASE IV 2.0, which produces .EXE standalones. I'm just starting to tinker with Force, an Xbase variant which may produce some very small standalones if I don't ask it to do too much. I don't do Windows yet. Although Foxpro 2.5 will allow you to produce DOS and Windows programs from the same base, you have to use Microsoft's internal design tools to do so, and I can't stand 'em. Also it relies on binary objects as part of the program, so version control's a problem. Yours in freedom, -=< Angus Scott-Fleming >=- GeoApplications Tucson, Arizona