Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Tue, 27 Dec 2022 19:02:42 -0700

>SQLite surly looks cool, however I would not call is a replacement for 
>dBase III.  dBase III was very structured and provide the ability to 
>create forms with widgets.

IIRC dBase could make only CLI forms, not GUI forms. If one is willing
to restrict one's self to CLI on an 80x25 screen, it's trivial in any
language to create functions say() and get(). This is even easier today
because you can represent the screen as a 25x80 2 dimensional array,
rather than having to construct it from the top down the way you did
when 20K was unaffordable. 

>
>It looks like SQLite would require some programming and the use of 
>ncurses or Qt... or maybe some other screen building language.  Am I 
>wrong?

It would be more professional to use nCurses, but you can use plain old
screen writes if you wanted to. As far as Qt, my understanding is
that dBase never could do proportional spacing or different fonts.

>Still it is pretty cool!!

>Microsoft owns Visual FoxPro ... why not trim that down?

No need to rely on Microsoft. Harbour Project is a Free Software
Clipper almost-workalike. https://harbour.github.io/

>
>MS also owns MS-Access which is a kludge in my opinion.

Access was a nice DB design tool, but I wouldn't trust it to hold my
data.

SteveT

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