These were the fun days. New software coming on the market all the time. The annual West Coast Computer Faire was where 'it was' in the SF Bay Area. This is where I bought my copy of dBASE II for CP/M from George Tate of Ashton-Tate while he was manning a dealer's booth! Word Tech, from Orinda, here in the SF Bay Area had come out with a previous program to compete with dBASE III, dBXL. It was also an interpreter. The developers wanted to protect their code so we had several bundled .EXEs that had the interpreter embedded in them. Arago, as I remember was not a great feature improvement. Its claim to fame was it would test all the if/thens, etc. with all the answers to find errors that would take developers a long time. I also heard that Borland bought it. Either they wanted the WordTech products off the market or they wanted the WordTech staff, because the products disappeared.
This type of database application creator is what I have been looking for under Linux since the '90s. Can't find it, so I use Foxpro/DOS under Dosemu/Linux.
John
On 12/19/2016 12:10 PM, Alan Bourke wrote:
More like Clipper then in a way, i.e. compiles to a self-contained EXE. Interesting.
-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm On Mon, 19 Dec 2016, at 06:59 PM, Michael Glassman wrote:
Here's a PC Magazine review from 1992, with comparisons to FoxPro 2.0, which was released one year earlier. FoxPro was faster, but it lacked such a complete compiler.
https://books.google.com/books?id=hnvCf6WlcYcC&pg=PP46&lpg=PP46&... fessional&source=bl&ots=CYTybALpXo&sig=yr1ebEAKHHLpSO8_jUHgoNzdqhE&hl=en&sa= X&ved=0ahUKEwjR-JjI9oDRAhUKw1QKHXltAqAQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=arago%20professi onal&f=false
Mike
-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 10:38 AM To:profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: [NF] Arago
Here's an ad from 1992:
https://books.google.com/books?id=3D0EAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA12&ots=AEALCrHq... XL%20dbase%20database&pg=PA12#v=onepage&q=dbXL%20dbase%20database&f=false
On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 11:37 AM, Alan Bourkealanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
Came across the name of this tool which I'd never heard of - apparently it was an early 90's dBase-compatible system from Wordtech which I believe Borland then bought. Anyone ever use it?
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Alan Bourke
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