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This section provides a tour of the features of the Frontier program itself. In Part I, Getting Acquainted, Frontier's basic edit windows and the database were introduced; here, the discussion is extended to windows and dialogs in general, as well as menus, agents, and pictures.
There is also an explanation of how database objects can be exported as separate files on disk and imported into the same or a different database. And the "care and feeding" of the database is described, with such topics as backing up, upgrading, and so forth. Finally, I talk about how Frontier can open more than one database at the same time.
These matters are all aspects of Frontier with which any user will wish to be familiar. At the same time, many of them can also be controlled with UserTalk, so the relevant UserTalk verbs and techniques for doing so are discussed here as well; readers who are less interested in the details of UserTalk can skip those parts of each chapter if desired.
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