ShimmerDB is a flat file database, and a Gilligan's Island kind of project.
It began as a simple three hour cruise when a friend, Greg Donner, asked for a
program that would open a window with a few string gadgets in it and load and
save the gadget's contents.  The result was a program that resembled the left
half of ShimmerDB's interface and behaved a lot like a line editor (when it
behaved at all :-)  ).

A suggestion of improvements by Greg resulted in an initial reaction of,
"Eek!  That's a database!", and eventually this program, ShimmerDB.  Although
still a work in progress, version 1.0 of ShimmerDB is stable and fully
functional, with more than a few nifty features.

Features:

  - Store multiple lines of text (up to 65,500) in any field.

  - A font sensitive, resizable, and (mostly) style guide compliant interface.

  - 65,500 records per database, and each record may contain up to 65,500
    fields.

  - Clipboard support:  cut, copy, and paste to and from units 0 - 9.

  - Fields may be set to execute AmigaDOS commands or applications, and the
    data from the current or other fields  may be passed as parameters to the
    command.

  - Databases may easily be combined wth other databases.

  - Fields, records, and multi-line text each have a 100 item undelete buffer.

  - Runs on any public screen.

  - Tested with Enforcer and MungWall.

 PERMSSN    UID  GID    PACKED    SIZE  RATIO METHOD CRC     STAMP          NAME
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[generic]                  589    1233  47.8% -lh5- 1142 May 11  1996 ShimmerDB10.info
[generic]                 1180    2736  43.1% -lh5- 23d1 Mar 22  1996 shimmerdb10/Music.sdb
[generic]                  353     626  56.4% -lh5- f72c Apr 12  1996 shimmerdb10/Music.sdb.info
[generic]                  523    1402  37.3% -lh5- 9d87 Mar 22  1996 shimmerdb10/Output.sdb
[generic]                  360     626  57.5% -lh5- d348 Apr 12  1996 shimmerdb10/Output.sdb.info
[generic]                22369   67168  33.3% -lh5- 18db Apr 12  1996 shimmerdb10/ShimmerDB
[generic]                15256   43720  34.9% -lh5- f52f May 11  1996 shimmerdb10/ShimmerDB.guide
[generic]                  232     468  49.6% -lh5- b4db Apr 12  1996 shimmerdb10/ShimmerDB.guide.info
[generic]                  710    1318  53.9% -lh5- bae0 Apr 10  1996 shimmerdb10/ShimmerDB.info
[generic]                 1219    3142  38.8% -lh5- 8c11 Mar 22  1996 shimmerdb10/Video.sdb
[generic]                  354     626  56.5% -lh5- 3132 Apr 12  1996 shimmerdb10/Video.sdb.info
---------- ----------- ------- ------- ------ ---------- ------------ -------------
 Total        11 files   43145  123065  35.1%            May 17  1996