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- From: arie@eecs.umich.edu (Arie Covrigaru)
- Subject: Re: In 4D I can only open one database at a time
- In-Reply-To: jas@ISI.EDU's message of 11 Dec 92 01:37:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <ARIE.92Dec26141851@quip.eecs.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Mr. News)
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- Organization: AI Lab, The University of Michigan
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- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:18:51 GMT
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- >>>>> On 11 Dec 92 01:37:52 GMT, jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) said:
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- | In article <ARIE.92Dec3112408@quip.eecs.umich.edu> arie@eecs.umich.edu (Arie Covrigaru) writes:
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- |>Having used a Mac for a long time now, it seems to me that one of the
- |>basic interface design considerations on the Mac is that applications
- |>are able to open several "documents" at the same time. In 4D, the
- |>equivalent of the document concept is a database. Why is it then,
- |>that 4D is limited to opening only one database at a time. I am new
- |>to 4D, so maybe this is true for other relational database management
- |>applications. What I do know that FileMaker Pro, for example has no
- |>such limitation.
- |>
- |>There are many advantages to being able to open two or more separate
- |>databases at the same time and I wonder if this limitation in 4D is
- |>common in relational database applications or there is some other
- |>specific reason for it in 4D.
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- | Try 4D 3.0; you can have multiple processes, each with their own file
- | open, rnning simultaneously. It's rather nice.
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- | jas
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- | Jeffrey A. Sullivan | Research Scientist et al.
- | jas@isi.edu (Internet) | Information Sciences Institute
- | 72511,402 (Compuserve) | University of Southern California
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- I haven't upgraded yet to 4D 3.0 so I don't have the documentation.
- Will you please elaborate on the processes and their own files?
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- Thanks,
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- Arie.
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