Hello all,

Forgive this blatant commercialism, but Royal Children's Hospital
in Melbourne is right in the middle of its annual Good Friday
Appeal to the public for all that spare change in the bottom of
your pockets.  We need to 'top up' funding for important research
projects in paediatric diseases, and we need to fund special services
that we cannot otherwise get money for--like accommodation for parents
who have to bring their children in from the country for cancer
treatments that might go on for several days.  And special care for
those kids with long-term system diseases.

Its about 2:00 PM here on Good Friday ... and we're well over the
million dollar mark.  We expect around $5.5 million by midnight.

We have several IMAGE/SQL applications, the most critical of which
is our Emergency Medicine database, that enables our specialists
to capture basic data and track patients through admission,
transfer and discharge, laboratory and radiology reports, and
follow up outpatient attendances, all on their PCs in the Emergency
Department.

Obviously this involves access to multiple databases, and in our
case, databases on multiple hosts.  IMAGE/SQL serves us **SPLENDIDLY**.
But it's a pain for me when we have to make changes, however minor,
to content and structure to any one of these databases.

Well, you can imagine my **JOY** when the wonderfully kind Denys
at HiComp offers DBTune/SQL **FOR FREE**.

No longer will I have to manually, frustratingly meticulously
maintain those little XEQ files to recode and split mappings between
TurboImage root files and IMAGE/SQL DBEs.  No longer will my
critical users suffer excessive downtime while I scratch my head
at 4-bloody-a.m. in the morning trying to remember what I did last
time!

> > If you feel the program is useful and you wish to pay something
> > for it, please send the donation to the charity of your choice.
> >  I prefer the ones that help children.

Dare I suggest .... 61+3+9682-7977 ... have your credit card ready;
we're open for calls until midnight AEST, 28 March 1997.  That's
8:00 a.m. New York time on the same day, and you can work it out
from there.  Anything from 20-cents up.  Be aware that your call
might get broadcast nation-wide on Australian television (Channel 7).

Gratefully (especially to Denys & HiComp) yours,
Ron Burnett
Royal Childrens's Hospital
Melbourne, Australia
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