Access, the Pick Enquiry Language (Chapman and Hall Computing)

The Pick operating system is a popular computer environment for commercial data processing. One of its features is the Access enquiry language which allows the users to make enquiries about their data and to produce reports based upon their files. Whether it is knows as Access, English, Info/Access, Inform, Recal or any of the other alias. The material in this book is relevant to implementation on several cognate systems. This book is designed to be of use to Pick users - the beginner and the end user who are just setting out to use Access, the experienced user who wants to get more out of the language, and the technical user. Firstly the general nature of the language is discussed and then detailed features with practical examples of its usage are given.