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Subject: Re: F.Freidel, What's the product idea behind no auto annotation in CBase 7?

Author: Steve Lopez

Date: 22:13:02 02/13/00

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On February 13, 2000 at 00:53:27, Jeff Anderson wrote:

>On February 12, 2000 at 21:25:07, Jeroen van Dorp wrote:
>
>>Chessbase is a database program, not an analysis module or a playing program.
>>
>>I can remeber that under DBase IV there was a crude text editor with a limit up
>>to 255 chracters in certain memo fields.
>>Why didn't they incorporate a full word processing program in it? It was
>>supposed to store data, and all data is inn text format evetually.
>>Answer: because it was a database program, not a word processor.
>>
>>Buy fritz 6 and you have a lot of database capabilities already.
>>Buy ChessBase if you want a database program.
>>
>>Jeroen ;-}
>
>One would have to be not so bright to compare having auto-annotation feature in
>Chessbase to having a full word processor in Chessbase.
>Jeff

Ironic, since:

A) That's not at *all* what he said, and

B) I received an e-mail just last week from a ChessBase user requesting that
more word processing features (such as spellchecking) be included in a future
release of ChessBase.

-- Steve Lopez

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