CompuServe Thread

#One That Came On Time

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#15586From: Art SteinmetzOct 10, 1988 8:13 AM
Got my upgrade last week (in September!). MFF is a fairly humble flat file but I have to say it is one of the finest Amiga applications going. The interface is beautifully consistant and intuitive. It never crashes. The author's attention to detail is amazing. The manual leaves nothing to chance. With the addition of AREXX you could even give MFF limited relational ability since multiple invocations of MFF can talk to each other. As an aside, I think this release of MFF just about gives AREXX the critical mass to be an Amiga standard (as we all here hope it will be). A choice of AREXX text editors is here. The addition of telecom (soon, I hope) and spreadsheet (I'm not holding my breath but Maxiplan has macros already) would provide an arsenal al least as powerful as any integrated package currently available for a certain other machine. — Art
#15623From: Lee SheldonOct 10, 1988 12:55 PM
Agreed. I've always thought MFF was one of the stablest Amiga applications available, and up till now I haven't missed the lack of relational abilities. I'm waiting for my copy of ARexx to arrive, so I can begin working with MFF+ in earnest. I may still need Superbase Pro (when the de-dongled version is released) for a couple of things, but I suspect MFF+ will be all I need for most of my incidental databases for a long time to come. Since I don't have ARexx yet, I'm not sure about something. Maybe you can help. Do you think I'd be able to transfer some dBase III+ files into MFF+ with ARexx's help? The included macros don't look like they handle delimited database files.