>Craig,
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>>I'll buy that...but my copy is "Revised". dBase was extremely popular at the time.
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>To my knowledge the book does not mention anything about dBase. I it likely anticipates on the come of DBMSs like oracle, informix, etc. which also became populat at that time.

I don't think it does mention dbase. I'm not going to assume anything about what Date did or did not know about dBase at the time. I'll just say that it was available and very popular.

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>Walter,