>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...
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>In the immortal words of the great MTV philosophers Beavis and Butthead, dBase IV "sucked....and it sucked in new ways".
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>Kevin

If it wasn't for dBass III, I would never had landed my first job doing Foxpro. When I lived in NYC in 1985, I loaded a copy of dBase on my Tandy 1000 and proceeded to have no idea what "." on the screen was for. I took a course in Manhattan, and finally learned that I needed to type commands at the dot prompt. One of the the first things I learned to do was browse. I was hooked from that moment on.