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Re:Looking Back at Postgres by typh00n on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:20PM (#23532488)
Not kidding, my dad still uses dBase databases in his five-man company to this day. (non-IT company) I even re-wrote some of his programs in C# 10 years ago, so he can use some of them with a modern GUI, but not replacing the database to stay compatible with his original software and tools.

I was surprised that databases are contained in *.dbf files, and no real database-service is present to process database-calls.

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Re:Looking Back at Postgres by eropple on Monday June 15, 2020 @05:17PM (#23533078)
At the time, and depending on the OS...where would the service be? ;)
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Re:Looking Back at Postgres by typh00n on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @10:11PM (#23546949)
I think i do not understand the question ... it is a little warehouse if that is your question. :-)
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Re:Looking Back at Postgres by fomine3 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @02:30AM (#23548416)
MS-DOS doesn't support service(daemon) program so it's natural that local db file can be used directly from application.
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