Date   : Thu, 10 Aug 1989 23:06:57 GMT
From   : ubvax!ardent!peck!rap@lll-winken.llnl.gov (Rob Peck)
Subject: Looking for dbase-2

In article <617@amc-gw.UUCP> jon@amc-gw.UUCP (Jon Mandrell) writes:
>our church is looking for a data-base program for a CP/M system that we
>maintain membership lists on.  Does anyone have an old version of dbase-2
>(or any other variety for that matter) that they would like to get rid of
>for little or no money?  We would really appreciate it.

I wanna keep my only copy of dbase-2, but I did run across a copy of
Personal Pearl, a Morrow program, that I'd be willing to part with at
no charge.  HOWEVER, the master distribution disk has a read-error on
a file that I strongly believe is essential to the operation of Pearl.
Pearl is a simplified database manager and from the examples in the
book (several books-in-one) that I have it would seem to do what little
a church would require, particularly at no-charge.

Does someone else out there also own Personal Pearl, such that if I send
my stuff off to Mr. Mandrell, he'd be able somehow to get someone to supply
him with a copy of that file only.  If the company is still in existence,
they might supply it or whatever.  I'd like to help but the product is now
on the edge of the wastebasket, just waiting for a tiny shove in the wrong
direction (or another earthquake... my home is 1 mile from the epicenter
of the last 5.2/4.6 that we had ... whew) to free up some shelf space for
yet another batch'o'nearly obsolete software.

Of course, by the time this gets posted, no doubt he'll already have
15 copies of DBASE-2 and nobody will care.  Well, its worth a try.
The file on my master that I cannot read is:

       PEARLI.LIB

Kaypro-serrah-serrah               Amen.


Rob Peck