Use Valentina with MetaCard 2.5 ?

[Alain Farmer]

Hi Ken andf y'all,

> Alain, one caveat on using Valentina
> is whether the *current* Valentina will
> work with MC 2.5; you may need to find
> acquire an older version for it to work.
> You should contact Ruslan Zasukhin at
> Paradigmasoft to find out for sure.

Thanks for the tip. I already have, and Ruslan has already replied. He has graciously provided me with a URL so that I can download a DEMO version of whichever version suits MetaCard 2.5. Which I figure is the first one in a l-o-n-g list of versions, e.g. version 1.11

This demo version will only work about "10 minutes at a time", but one of the respondents in this thread assured me that it was in-fact longer than 10 minutes AND that it would be sufficient to evaluate whether Valentina is for me.

As it has been for y'all, I surmise, because respondents in this thread have been unanimously favorable to Valentina. No one reported any regret. Not so-far, anyways. I'd like to hear from other Valentina users too, or would-be users that were discouraged.. or whomever has something relevant to say about Valentina. Good or bad are equally welcome.  :)

I'm being so-cautious because I have dedicated hundreds of hours, testing various databases (DBMSs), over the years, and NONE of them did the trick for me, including XCMDs for HyperCard. This time, I want to KNOW for SURE that I'll be headed in the right direction. :)

Thanks y'all for the heads-up,  :)

Alain