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Borland dBASE 5.0 for DOS
The worldwide database standard
- 100% dBASE standard
- Complete solution for users and developers
- New! Event-handling and object models
- New! Developer's Desktop Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- New! Unique Two-Way-Tools (tm)
- New! Form Designer with graphical controls
- New! Fully integrated 32-bit .EXE compiler
- Full network multiuser support
Table of Contents, dBASE 5.0 for DOS
dBASE 5.0 is the highest performance database management system for DOS. More
than seven million people like you rely on dBASE to manage their important
information. And dBASE 5.0 is fully compatible with dBASE III PLUS (r) and dBASE
IV. (r) You can continue to build on your investment in data and applications.
Your applications created with previous versions of dBASE run up to 20
times faster with NEW! 32-bit support, SpeedFilters (tm), and Virtual
Memory Management. Your queries, forms, reports, and programs will work
faster so you'll get fast results.
dBASE 5.0 retains its proven Control Center interface, giving you everything required to manage your data more productively, without programming.
- Get answers fast with Query By Example (QBE)--simply click on the fields you want.
- Create impressive forms, reports, and labels easily with Quick Layout options or customize your own with the Visual Design tools.
- Use the Applications Generator to tie all your tables, queries, forms, and reports together into a custom solution, without programming.
All the tools you need are in one place with the unified NEW! Developer's
Desktop. Build applications faster than ever before. NEW! Command and
Results Windows let you enter dBASE commands, cut, copy and paste, and
see results instantly.
Unique NEW! Two-Way-Tools let you work interchangeably between the visual
tool and source code for maximum productivity. And NEW!
Context-sensitive On-line Help system explains every dBASE command and
function as you create your programs.
Now you can create powerful multiwindow DOS applications fast with the
NEW! Event Model. More than 40 new commands and
functions. More than 150 new Common User Access (CUA) language elements.
NEW! Crosstab Expert makes creating sophisticated cross-tabulation
reports simple. The NEW! Quick Layout and NEW! Form Designer let you
work with built-in objects to visually create Windows-like applications.
Select push buttons, radio buttons, check boxes, pick lists, and more,
from the Object Palette to create your form. Just right-click for the
NEW! Object Inspector (r), to modify any object's properties without
programming.
dBASE 5.0 for DOS includes NEW! Integrated 32-bit
Compiler with full preprocessor and
MAKE facility, so you can distribute fully functional,
high-performance .EXEs without royalties or runtime fees. And NEW!
Project Manager coordinates all of your development efforts.
NEW! Virtual Memory Management allows your applications to utilize up to 4Gb of combined RAM and hard disk.
NEW! Use up to 225 work areas.
NEW! Unlimited record locking for more powerful multiuser applications.
NEW! Powerful array-handling capability.
- dBASE for DOS and dBASE for Windows users can share data instantly.
- Keep data up to date with automatic record and file locking and screen refresh.
- Protect sensitive data with multilevel password protection and data encryption.
- Ensure data integrity through transaction processing with rollback.
- Add users economically with dBASE License Pack (available separately).
Database Management
- Control Center
- Catalog Manager
- Visual Design Tools
- Database Table Designer
- Query By Example (QBE)
- Form Designer
- Report Designer
- Label Designer
- Applications Generator
Performance
- Operations are up to 20 times faster than dBASE III PLUS and IV v1.x., two times faster than dBASE IV v2.0
- NEW! 32-bit DOS extender technology
- NEW! Built-in Virtual Memory Manager
- SpeedFilter technology for fastest results
Application Development Tools
- Time-tested Visual Design Tools and Applications Generator
- Automatic code generation
- Symbolic multiwindowed Debugger
- NEW! Developer's Desktop Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
- NEW! Separate windows for command (dot prompt) input and results output
- NEW! Two-Way-Tools read and write Common User Access (CUA) source code
- NEW! CUA Form Designer
- Object Palette with radio buttons, check boxes, push buttons, list boxes, and combo boxes
- Field Palette
- Menu Designer
- NEW! Text and Memo Editor
- Open same file in more than one window
- Substring search and list
- Compiler accessible from editor
- Right-click mouse button for command-level, context-sensitive help
- NEW! Integrated 32-bit Compiler
- MAKE utility
- Autolinker, preprocessor
- dSPLIT/dJOIN distribution tools
- Full wildcard support in COMPILE command
- NEW! Project Manager
- Lists all application components
- Edit any component
- Options include output directories and preprocessor support
- Calculator, calendar, and ASCII chart
- Cross-tabulation Expert (tm)
dBASE Language
- English-like, high-level language with more than 500 commands and functions
- Sophisticated Object Model
- Powerful Event-handling Model
- NEW! 214 language enhancements including:
- 15 event handlers
- 22 classes (stock objects)
- 105 properties
- 11 methods
- 13 new array functions
- Error trapping
- Conditional indexes
- Enhanced mouse event handling
- User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
- Language driver ID checking
- C language-like low-level file I/O functions
- Blank support
Data Safeguards
- AUTO SAVE writes each record to disk automatically
- Data validation
- Password protection (up to eight levels)
- Data encryption
Multiuser Features
- Automatic file and NEW! unlimited record locking
- Automatic retry when record/file is locked
- Indication of which users have locks
- Change detection and screen refresh
- Transaction processing with rollback
Capacity
- Up to 225 work areas (enhanced)
- Up to one billion records per file
- Maximum record size: 4,000 bytes
- Up to 256 fields per record
- Up to 254 characters per field
- Up to 47 indexes per master index file
- Up to 10 master index files per database
- 65,535 elements per array
Special Features
- Enhanced automated installation
- Run other software from dBASE
- Selectable VGA video modes
- Context-sensitive help
Compatibility
- Upward compatibility with applications and data created with dBASE III PLUS and dBASE IV
- Data compatibility with dBASE on other platforms.
System Requirements
- An Intel 386 (or higher) -based PC, 100% compatible
- DOS 3.3 or later, 100%-compatible version
- Minimum 4Mb extended RAM (6Mb extended RAM recommended)
- Minimum 9Mb of hard disk space
- Optional: Microsoft (r) Windows 3.1 or later, or IBM (r) OS/2 (r) 2.01 or later, 100%-compatible version
- Pointing device: Mouse recommended
Networks Supported
Novell NetWare 2.2, 3.11, 3.12, 4.0, and Personal NetWare; AT&T StarGROUP 2.1a; Banyan VINES 5.0; DecNET Pathworks 4.1; IBM LAN Server 3.0; Microsoft LAN Manager 2.1; Lantastic 6.0
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Last modified March 24, 1995