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* Last '''OS/2 version''' is a part of the Lotus Smartsuite 1.73 package and was not supplied separately. Any 1.7x version can be updated into 1.73 via free fixpacks. | * Last '''OS/2 version''' is a part of the Lotus Smartsuite 1.73 package and was not supplied separately. Any 1.7x version can be updated into 1.73 via free fixpacks. | ||
* Last MS Windows 3.x - WinOS/2 version: 3.02, a free update available for those using 3.0 or 3.01. As those latter two were somewhat buggy and most of the bugs got fixed in 3.02, you should definitely upgrade if you are still using that version. Note that the Approach 3.x versions do not work well with any 32 bit MS Windows operating system and not at all with 64 bit versions of Windows but databased created with it will work fine with 9.x wersions of Approach for Windows. | * Last MS Windows 3.x - WinOS/2 version: 3.02, a free update available for those using 3.0 or 3.01. As those latter two were somewhat buggy and most of the bugs got fixed in 3.02, you should definitely upgrade if you are still using that version. Note that the Approach 3.x versions do not work well with any 32 bit MS Windows operating system and not at all with 64 bit versions of Windows but databased created with it will work fine with 9.x wersions of Approach for Windows. | ||
* Last MS Windows 32 bit versions: 9.8.61 for English language Passport Advantage licence holders. 9.8.6 for International [http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21180536 Passport Advantage licence holders]. 9.8.1 is the last GA version (No Passport Advantage licence needed). | |||
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Revision as of 18:30, 1 December 2014
Description
A dual-platform Windows and OS/2 end user database with multi user capabilities. Uses a .dbf back-end which makes moving basic file formats and relations to and from xBase development tools easy, but is not an xBase tool itself but rather uses a graphical tool for building up relationships and basic automaton and offers programming via LotusScript, a Basic like language.
History
Lotus Approach was initially developed for Windows 3.1 by a company called Approach and caused quite a stir when it was introduced in 1991 as all the other available GUI databases used propriety file formats while the Approach database engine used the dBase file format that was by far the most used format at the time. The company was purchased by Lotus Development Corp. in 1994, who ported the tool to the 32 bit versions of Windows and OS/2, improved the graphical database designer, integrated it into their SmartSuite office suite and strengthened its programmability by introducing LotusScript instead of the fairly rudimentary macro system the original offered.
Versions
- Last OS/2 version is a part of the Lotus Smartsuite 1.73 package and was not supplied separately. Any 1.7x version can be updated into 1.73 via free fixpacks.
- Last MS Windows 3.x - WinOS/2 version: 3.02, a free update available for those using 3.0 or 3.01. As those latter two were somewhat buggy and most of the bugs got fixed in 3.02, you should definitely upgrade if you are still using that version. Note that the Approach 3.x versions do not work well with any 32 bit MS Windows operating system and not at all with 64 bit versions of Windows but databased created with it will work fine with 9.x wersions of Approach for Windows.
- Last MS Windows 32 bit versions: 9.8.61 for English language Passport Advantage licence holders. 9.8.6 for International Passport Advantage licence holders. 9.8.1 is the last GA version (No Passport Advantage licence needed).
Author
- Approach (Original Author)
- Lotus Development Corp.
- IBM
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License
- Commercial