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List:       sas-l
Subject:    DBMS/Program  (DBMS/COPY's enhanced batch processing) -- ready
From:       Henry Feldman <hfeldman () CONCEPTUAL ! COM>
Date:       1999-01-29 16:31:07
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Hi, I'm the developer of DBMS/COPY.   Many DBMS/COPY users are on this list
so I hope I'm not bothering too many people by posting this here.

Many years ago I wrote a package called PRODAS.  This is a package with
syntax similar to SAS  and it did pretty well in the DOS environment.  In
1988, I stumbled upon the DBMS/COPY idea and that took over my life.   (Not
that I'm complaining.)   PRODAS is still used today to track the nation's
AIDS patients, hospital infections and the analyze the nation's prison
population.

Well, I've finally gotten around to porting PRODAS to Windows.  It works
with DBMS/COPY.

This first phase is a major enhancement of the batch processing
environment.  (Nothing interactive, except the built-in runtime debugger
which is pretty nice.)

If you are familiar with my PRODAS package, the following modules are
available:  program, crosstab, unistat, report, value, sort, regress,
tabulate and transpose.

If you are familiar with SAS, these modules are similiar to the following
SAS procs:
        data step
        freq
        means
        summary
        univariate
        print
        format
        sort
        tabulate
        rsq
        stepreg
        reg
        transpose

A macro language is also implemented.  There are additional interesting
features which I will not bore you with now.

Bottom line, this beta should interest you if you manipulate multiple input
and output databases, need by group processing, read/write poorly
structured ASCII files, need to do "data step" kinds of things or want to
perform tabulations.

If this beta interests you please contact me.  Because of the way the beta
is implemented, you must be a user of DBMS/COPY for Win95/NT to be involved
at this time.

Thanks for your time.

Henry
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Henry Feldman              henry@conceptual.com
Conceptual Software, Inc.     (713) 721-4200
9660 Hillcroft #510       fax:(713) 721-4298
Houston, TX  77096       web: http://www.conceptual.com/
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