Radio as Frontier

[Brian Ablaza]

To say that Radio has all of the functionality of Frontier is 
probably technically correct, but practically untrue. I use both, and 
can tell you that some things a developer takes for granted in the 
Frontier environment just aren't there in Radio. Also, various 
threads and processes will launch at startup in Radio that you may 
have a hard time tracking down and eliminating.

All the verbs are there, I think. Not sure about various glue tables, 
which you can add yourself. If you want to run scripts from within 
Radio, you probably could. But it's not Frontier.

>Greetings,
>I use Frontier the old fashion way to build web sites: I run glue 
>scripts to tease text and pictures from existing Pagemaker and now 
>InDesign files into a Frontier database, run Photoshop glue scripts 
>to mangle the pictures into shape, and output static html pages.
>I thought I saw mention on this list some months ago that Radio has 
>all the functionality of Frontier without the web server or Manilia.
>With the academic price of Frontier now at $300 (I know it's quite a 
>deal from the full price) and Radio's price of $40, my question is:
>Can I save my department some cash and still do what I need to do?
>Thanks

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Brian Ablaza
Chief Technology Officer and Partner
The Star Group

(856) 488-5500
bablaza at stargroup1.com