Home Computing Weekly


DRS: Data Retrieval System

Author: D.C.
Publisher: Salamander
Machine: Dragon 32

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #66

I am very impressed with this piece of software. Although it has some omissions it is well thought out and a very flexible disc and cassette filing system, What's more, it makes use of the discs. allowing seven times more data to be stored on disc than on cassette.

The output and input routines' are particularly good. They are entirely user defined and give you the facility to display a file in one format whilst printing it, selectively, in another one, which may be completely different.

The screen data can be similarly formatted: this can lead to some attractive and easy to use databases. The defining of a screen layout is not too easy, however, as the manual is very vague on the facilities here.

The other criticisms to make are that it lacks wildcard searching facilities and that it can only sort in one field. Having said that 'however, it is a program that will provide much needed data handling facilities to satisfy many Dragon owners.

D.C.

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