Mini version of Dataflex
The application development system, Dataflex, has been expanded for use on minicomputers.
Dataflex revision 2.2, just released by the system’s creators, the Flor-ida-based Data Access Corporation, will run under DEC’S VAX/VMS system and Unix V. Dataflex is a popular development tool for microcomputer software being written in the United States, and in New Zealand forms the basis for the CBA business package. Besides extending Dataflex to the minicomputer range, revision .2.2 makes further enhancements to the system, which was last revj|gd in February, 1985. Tfle en-
hancements include:
• Improvements to the Query command. • Compilations about 30 per cent faster than revision 2.1.
• Reindexing up to 70 per cent faster than before.
• Bigger program files in Xenix. • A command for converting dßase data to Dataflex data files.
• Larger integers — in the range of negative 2 billion to positive 2 billion. .
• Subdirectory pathing. • Windowing. • Branching to operating system and return.
Dataflex is distributed in New Zealand by Cowan Bowman, Associates, of Auckland.
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Press, 6 January 1987, Page 22
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