FrontBase is a

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written in ANSI C. FrontBase uses the

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character encoding.

International standards

FrontBase complies with SQL 92 (fully compliant),

(Unicode 2.0) and TCP/IP (uses sockets).

Available platforms

FrontBase is available on the following platforms: *

Macintosh The Mac (known as Macintosh until 1999) is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., Apple Inc. Macs are known for their ease of use and minimalist designs, and are popular among students, creative professionals, and ...

- Mac OS X, Mac OS X Server 10.x and Mac OS X Server 1.2 *

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which ...

- RedHat, SuSE(Intel and Power PC), YellowDog Linux and Mandrake Linux *

Unix Unix (; trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and ot ...

- FreeBSB, Solaris and HP-UX *

Windows Windows is a group of several proprietary graphical operating system families developed and marketed by Microsoft. Each family caters to a certain sector of the computing industry. For example, Windows NT for consumers, Windows Server for serv ...

- Windows NT and Windows 2000.

Drivers and adaptors

Drivers and adaptors include Apple WebObjects, PHP3, PHP4, Perl, ODBC, JDBC, Omnis Studio, REALBasic, Tcl, EOF, FBAccess and FBCAccess.

Data types

Data types supported include INTEGER, DECIMAL, TIMESTAMP, BLOB and VARCHAR.

References

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