This is wonderful to read, and brings back so many memories. I made my living off of dBASEIII+ for several years, starting around the time of this article. I wa

This is wonderful to read, and brings back so many memories. I made my living off of dBASEIII+ for several years, starting around the time of this article. I was just thinking about it this past week so it's a great coincidence to see this come up. @ 3,3 say "Enter choice: " get ch picture "!" read I wrote some very involved data entry screens and report generating software with it. My company's billing and payroll ran off of it for many years. I had inherited the initial versions of it, produced by a third party consultant at great expense, too much so to have them continue to maintain it. I eventually would rewrite nearly all of it, and attempted rewriting it in dBASE 5 several times but it was too much work for one person. I was the only "computer guy" in the company at the time. So we continued with the db3 version for several years, eventually adding parts in Topaz for Turbo Pascal, output to PCL for fancy laser printed payroll sheets (to be sent to the main office to be reentered by hand because they didn't trust data transfer yet!), and many other crutches. You could write extensions in Assembler to provide whatever unique capabilities you might want, such as coloring or scrolling a block of characters on the screen, or hiding and showing the text cursor. And I remember the feeling of amazement the first time I was able to run a command window and a separate dBase window in Windows 3.11, as well as The Semware Editor and LIST, all at the same time! I no longer had to exit dBase and get back into the editor and vice versa! I still have a working copy of it on an external drive. Time to go give it a spin!