I would advise caution if you choose to use Paradox.

It is used at Parks Canada as the collections database for Alberta and
British Columbia.  Paradox tends to "blow up" and have quite a few problems
when dealing with a large number of entries and fields, and we often have
had problems with queries.  I also recall that we could only have one person
entering data at a time, otherwise it would crash.  Additionally, it's not
an intuitive and people-friendly program.

Personally, I always thought anything called "Paradox" would be a warning in
itself! :)  (Apologies to any Paradox fans out there!)

Hope this helps!

Cheers,
Rena Varsakis

>
>Many thanks to those who have replied on and off list to my request for
>info. on databases.
>
>To summarise, excluding what is probably the most sensible, but
>currently beyond my pocket suggestion ("get a mac"), it boils down to
>FilePro and Paradox.
>
>Paradox I can get on educational licence for 89GBP, FilePro I'm still
>investigating.
>
>On the point of moving information: this is what I've done with my
>Locofile bibliography: I have written an output programme which knows
>(forgive my anthropmorphism!) that titles are in italics, and so on, and
>outputs them with the appropriate HTML code - it 'knows' that if
>something is in a journal, the title needs quotation marks and the
>journal needs italics.  This is, of course, a Locoscript document, but
>once saved as ascii, it becomes an HTML document.
>
>Best wishes to all
>
>--
>Pat Reynolds
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>    "It might look a bit messy now, but just you come back in 500 years
>time"
>    (T. Pratchett)

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