>I want to upgrade my listing program from dbase 3+ to one of the newer
>commercial programs, such as Avisys 3.5 or Birdbase 3.0. I have Windows
>3.1.My lists ( province, state, county, year etc.) are mostly ABA area,
>but I have some from other areas too, such as U.K., Jamaica etc. I want
>to be able to make comments about sightings, and export them to Word
>perfect. Any advice?
>
>Richard Stern
>Kentville, Nova Scotia,
>Canada
>aa989 at cfn.cs.dal.ca

Richard,

New on the market this year is the first Windows based listing program
call WingWatch by Dewitt Software. It's an excellent package. I was part
of the beta test group and have been using it since the middle of the year.
It should be available for sale now. Contact Gary Dewitt at
73512.57 at compuserve.com.

--Gerhard

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From: Thomas Grey <tgrey at LELAND.STANFORD.EDU>

I would love to have a Windows based listing program, but what do you do
with the thousands of entries you have made on your old warhorse? Mine is
DOS-based BirdBase, which some have cursed because you have to start it
each time with the original disk, but which to me is an o.k., but just
o.k., program.

* * * * * * * * * *
Thomas C. Grey tgrey at leland.stanford.edu
Stanford Law School Stanford, CA

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From: "Gerhard R. Wittreich" <wittregr at MARLIN.SSNET.COM>

Thomas,

I was using Avisys and had almost 5000 sighting records. The new WingWatch
easily converted these sightings into its own format. WinWatch also has a
conversion utility for Birdbase v3.0. You should have no problem converting.

--Gerhard

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From: The Graphical Gnome <RDB at TITAN.KTIBV.NL>
Organization: Kinetics Technology International

Hallo,

I'm following this discussion with much interrest. I'm (have/am/will
be) building a program for storing about everything you want about
everything that lives.(bird, mammal, bacteria, plant, etc)

I did not know that other programs did exist.

To make my program even better (It's a large database application
written in Clipper) Could some-one give me a Idea about what he wants
to do with this kind of programs. So far I only entered the features
I wanted.

A short overview of the current features:

- Structured using the Lineaus hirarchy structure.
- Names kan be entered in every language you want.
- The display language of both the programs and the items can be
changed on the fly.
- Relations can be added
- Synoniems can be indicated.
- Items can be moved, added, deleted
- Occurces (both global and specific, e.g. South Africa or Chobe
National Park) can be added.
- Habitat references
- Sightings can be added (Location, Person, Date)
- At every possible place, references and memo's can be added.
- Possibility to connect e.g. a document written in WP to an item,
After selecting, WP will start with the document.
- Possibility to connect your own pictures to items
- Search options
- Report Options
- Integrated reference database
- Integrated Picture/Slide database
- Stud-Cards
- Make your own datafiles

The Graphical Gnome <RDB at TITAN.KTIBV.NL>
The Netherlands

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From: "Byron Butler (GD 1995)" <bbutler at MINERVA.CIS.YALE.EDU>

> New on the market this year is the first Windows based listing program
> call WingWatch by Dewitt Software. It's an excellent package. I was part

Perhaps a minor technical point, but as far as I know, the *first*
Windows based listing program was "Bird Recorder for Windows" put out at
least a year and a half ago by Jack Levine of England. At the moment I do
not have Jack's e-mail or surface mail addresses with me but I can get them.
This is a nice package with many excellent features, not the least of which
is a complete listing of all the birds in the world which can be sorted
taxonomically or alphabetically, by common or scientific name. It allows
you to attatch notes from your word processor and also graphics including
maps and photos. Jack sent a copy of this package to "Birding" over a
year ago for a product review, so far he hasn't heard back from the
publication.

Byron K. Butler, Guilford, CT