Message-ID: <v02130504ae6959f84ae5@[196.20.30.2]> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 1996 10:08:54 +0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: STANDARD DEVELOPMENT TOOLS To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
At 19:59 20/9/96, Riaz Khan wrote: >Dear List Members,
>Sometime ago I had initiated a discussion on the above subject.
>To follow up on it I am developing a Computer based Management
>Information System for an NGO working in the field of primary
>education, Health, Water Supply, Sanitation and Population. In
>addition they are also doing income generation activities.
>Besides thier own projects the NGO also undertakes project which are
>funded by Donors. I am proposing to capture the following information
>and then develop a USER FRIENDLY MENU DRIVEN Computer Software in
>FOXPRO. I thought that I should make a generalized software
>which could be used by any NGO. For this I need your input and
>assistance.
Why in FoxPro? Who has XBase?
Why not in some of the UNIX based tools? There is this fantastic Onyx 4GL which works extremely well with many data bases and mSQL in particular?
It's a little bit scarcely documented but abundant examples and the grammar as man files are there. This all besides the fact that it will take days as opposed to months writing it.
Let me know if you want more info.
el
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