In December 1991 Home Office Computing awarded PC-File four stars stating, "Few programs in recent years have offered as much power for the price as PC-File." In July 1992, Data Based Advisor magazine awarded PC-File 1st place in Documentation, Ease of use in report creation, and Price vs. ShareWare magazine awarded PC-File an Editors Choice award in 1991. The issue of PC Week said "PC-File emerged as the most powerful flat filer". I will allow an old advertisement to speak for this program: Awarded its second Editors' Choice in the Jissue of PC Magazine, PC-File is the #1 rated flat-file database manager. I've heard much about it, but have no experience with it. PC-File won three PC Magazine Editor's Choice awards in the '80s and early '90s. PC-File, created by the "Father of Shareware" Jim Button, has been reclassified (9-97) as unsupported freeware. PC-File Award-winning, flat file database manager. Source (*.PRF) available.įor 80286+ with >2MB RAM most users should get this versionįor more info, go to the nanoBase 1997 description page and to the online manual.
nB can access files created with Fox Pro 2, dBase III and up, and CA-Clipper. From my limited evaluation, it appears to be a solid choice for maintaining a variety of catalogs or databases. NanoBase is a dBase compatible database that can function as a Dot command interpreter, menu driven xBase, xBase program interpreter, or compiler / executer of simple xBase programs. NanoBase 1997 (nB) xBase, *.DBF compatible database. Go to the DataPerfect Users Discussion Group for manuals, tools, links to other DP sites, mailing list, etc.
Originally released by WordPerfect Corp., then Novell (through 1994) subsequent releases by the author.Īuthor: Lew Bastian (2004).
Also, most do very poorly with medium to large databases (say, databases with data files holding over 50,000 records each) whereas, DP allows for almost no slowdown, free of corruption, with data files in the millions of records each.Ĭopyrighted freeware. None of the Windows platforms, when using only the applications generator (i.e., not writing code) allow for the complexity DP allows for, and most.don't allow for some of DP's relationality even with writing code. This is a mature program, highly stable, and designed to handle very large, complex jobs.Īs far as existing database platforms, none resemble DP's structure. Other, specialized databases are in Information, Reference, Research.ĭataPerfect Professional relational database.ĭataPerfect is an impressive relational database program which does not require the use of a programming language or the latest hardware. FREE SOFTWARE FOR DOS Database & Spreadsheet Programs Free Software for DOSįor address / phone number managers, go to Calendars, Clocks & PIMs.
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