CompuServe Thread

Gerhard, Thanks for your extensive reply on Maxon Twist. The program sounds very interesting, I think I'll look further in it. Ideally I would like a replacement for Pro DataRetrieve. This program started having probems when I moved up to DOS 2.04 and is not now on an upgrade path although Abacus are very good with whatever help they can give. The thing I liked about PDR was that it appeared to be vector driven so whatever screen I constructed with various fields, I could type as much as I liked into each field. Then, if I resized the field (graphically with the mouse), more data would appear. Similarly by using different screen or printer masks, I could resize e.g. a _First_Name_ field to one character & one line (each field would have auto text wrap), put a full stop outside the field and I would have the persons initial e.g. Gerhard to G. all with the same data, just different masks. The text wrap was nice too since it allowed me to put a persons entire address in one field and still print in 4 lines in one column. I have Superbase but I find it a bit awkward to use. There seems to be so many good or interesting Amiga products that one rarely hears about or that disappear with a whimper. Makes Fora like this all the more worthwhile. Thanks again. Lu, 2500/30 APpy downunder