I don't know about 4GL, but I have at least eight paper Allbase manuals 
with the suffix of slash SQL.

Most of them still in the shrinkwrap.

If you want 'em send me your snail mail.  Otherwise one pass at eBay for 
a week then the trash.


On 5/20/21 12:53 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:
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> While poking around the virtual printing and pdf generation from the HP3000 I
> ran across several sets of software manuals of which I was either unaware or
> had entirely forgotten.  The are respectively: HP ALLBASE/BRW and HP
> ALLBASE/4GL.  From a brief overview I gather, perhaps incorrectly, that these
> products both require block-mode terminals.
>
> Looking at my pub.sys it appears that I have all the components of ALLBASE and
> ALLBASE/BRW.  But there is no sign of ALLBASE/4GL.  ALLBASE itself I am aware
> of.  I never used it myself. This was mainly because by the time it appeared we
> were already using an Image based application and there seemed no great
> benefit, and a considerable risk, to change from the one to the other.
> Regardless, what were these things, besides the obvious, and how do they
> differ?  What was the relationship, if any, between ALLBASE/4GL and
> INFORMIX/4GL?
>
> This is, as stated, just sheer idle curiosity on my part.  I deem it unlikely
> that I will be building anything new in the way of applications on the HP3000.
> One never knows, I never thought that I would be producing PDFs from our
> existing HP3000 PowerHouse application, but I would not bet the rent on it.
> And, I cannot see myself working in a block-mode environment, particularly for
> application development.
>
> Regards,
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