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Re: Three simple FMP questions
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Re: Three simple FMP questions


  • Subject: Re: Three simple FMP questions
  • From: John W Baxter <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2001 00:41:24 -0700

At 15:37 +1000 7/9/01, Shane Stanley wrote:
>It still seems odd that they followed much of the Database Suite, but it's
>the only app I know of that doesn't use "make new". Whatever planet they're
>from ;-)

Jon Pugh (among others) can correct me, but I don't think FileMaker
followed the database suite. I think FileMaker led the database suite.

And create was the very early 90s terminology for make. Just as "clone"
preceded "duplicate" (and mercifully pretty much vanished).

--John

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John Baxter email@hidden Port Ludlow, WA, USA


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