
Students' Guide to Business Computing
Using dBASE3 Plus: a practical case
dBASE3 Plus has been by far the most successful of the micro-
computer database packages, and several million copies have been
sold, if its predecessors (dBASE2 and dBASE3) are also included. As
with many database packages, it can be operated by a series of single
commands or by running a macro-program. A macro-program is
simply a series of commands, and the commands are said to form a
command language.
Some computer specialists would question whether the command
language in dBASE3 Plus is truly a fourth generation language,
because it lacks some of the advanced feature ...