Ah, Ashton-Tate.....memories....16 years ago they produced a clunky product in dBase IV, while the whiz-kids in Ohio made the lean-mean FoxPro 1, one of the greatest DOS-based products ever....and then Ashton-Tate sued Fox....and then shortly afterwards, Ashton-Tate was no more. Justice...
In the immortal words of the great MTV philosophers Beavis and Butthead, dBase IV "sucked....and it sucked in new ways".
Kevin