#

Xbase DBMS
Last Updated 2/11/99
Version 1.8.0a

Welcome to Xbase DBMS. This product provides C and C++ programmers a powerful class library for manipulating Xbase type database files and indices. This project originated as Xbase for Linux, but thanks to support for the library by many programmers on platforms other than Linux, it has been renamed to Xbase DBMS. The main development of this library however, remains on the Linux platform utilizing the GCC public domain C/C++ compiler.
XBase DBMS is a cross-platform development tool and currently includes routines to support multi-user access for .DBF databases, fields, Dbase III and IV memo fields (variable length fields), dates, record and file locking and .NDX indices. As of release 1.7.4c, Xbase is compatible with dBASE III database, indices, and memo fields and has some support for dBASE IV features.
There is an HTML user interface class which works well with the Apache Web Server. Future releases will support filters, enhanced .MDX index files, transaction support, a client server configuration, secure data options and other enhancements requested by anyone using this library.

#### New with release 1.8.0a

- Unix automake/autoconf support - thanks to Denis Pershin
- Exception processing - thanks to Denis Pershin
- NTX Index Processing - thanks to Bob Cotton
- The beginnings of a Turbo Vision interface - thanks to Vitaly Fedrushkov
- Renamed classes to avoid naming conflicts with other libraries
- Support for string class - thanks to Hubertus Kehl and Denis Pershin
  If you are looking for database libraries in general, or need access to Xbase files in particular, give Xbase DBMS a try. If you are a C programmer and new to C++ object oriented programming, Xbase for Linux is easy to learn and will help transition you to the world of object oriented programming. If you have never programmed in "C/C++" before, this library should provide complete enough examples to get you started programming in "C/C++" with confidence.

  Send me mail - xbase@startech.keller.tx.us

  (c)1997 StarTech