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On Monday September 19, 2016 Ray25 said:

Chuck, if nobody has answered your question, what you can do is save your Reflex files as a dBase file and then import them into Access or Excel.

On Thursday December 17, 2015 Chuck Blevins said:

I have a few old Reflex data files that I would really like to access. Last one was saved in 1994. Man I miss Reflex! Can anyone recommend how I can access those files? I'd like to save in Excel.

On Wednesday June 27, 2012 Nagel said:

Question: I am also using DosBox to run this program, which seems to work perfectly fine for creating new files, etc.... except that I can't seem to open an old .RXD file of mine. I put the file right into the Reflex folder which I mounted using DosBox [typing: C:\Reflex\COURTNE.RXD], and still (no matter whether I try opening it via Reflex version 1 or 2) it'll either say "File not Found" or "Path not found." Can anyone shed some light on this? Something extra I need to type perhaps?

On Wednesday April 18, 2012 e. said:

Great software which allowed me to open a Version 1.0 rxd file of 1995! Very fast and efficient database including forms, reporting and crosstabs.

On Thursday June 10, 2010  said:

What settings in XP will let Reflex run? I get a fault saying that it's trying to access the HD directly and that isn't allowed.

On Saturday May 8, 2010  said:

I was really pleased to find this site - Reflex is one of my all time favourites. I'm running it on XP Pro using DosBox (www.dosbox.com) - no apparent problems and no tweaks required. Vista users may find DosBox helpful in getting round the problems of running DOS software - it's popular with retro-gamers etc.

On Thursday December 3, 2009 butchsor said:

Cross-tab still the best, fastest and far superior than any other Winbloat database softwares

On Sunday October 11, 2009 kinnsy said:

If like me you get scrambled text showing in this application get this:
http://www.bttr-software.de/fi​x8x14/
Worked a treat for me.

On Saturday August 2, 2008 guest (guest) said:

An excellent fast DOS database application that is very flexible. Works on Windows XP with tweaks but not on Vista.

On Saturday July 26, 2008 guest (guest) said:

Borland Reflex was the fastest and easiest way to make criss-cross reports, ventilations and consolidatiuons of any activity. I used it a lot to generate reporting of my activitities for tax agents when I worked as an independant. As far as I know, that software has never been equalled by anyting since.

On Saturday January 19, 2008 guest (guest) said:

Borland Reflex is a flat-file database management system for DOS. It was the first commercial PC database to use the mouse and graphics mode, and drag-and-drop capability in the report formatting module. Reflex was originally developed by Analytica[1] which was later bought by Borland.
The engineering team of Analytica, managed by Brad Silverberg and including Reflex co-founder Adam Bosworth became the core of Borland's engineering team in the U.S. Brad Silverberg was vice-president of engineering until he left in early 1990 to head up the Personal Systems division at Microsoft. Adam Bosworth initiated and headed up the Quattro project until moving to Microsoft later in 1990 to take over the project which eventually became Access. Another Reflex developer, Ken Day, later moved to Macromedia where he worked on Shockwave, among other projects.
As a testament to properly written software, one can still run Reflex on any modern Windows-based PC.[2]
Gordon Bell, a senior researcher in Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group, includes a case study on Analytica in his book High-Tech Ventures: The Guide For Entrepreneurial Success.

On Saturday January 5, 2008 Scramcat (guest) said:

One of the best features of Reflex was the crosstab. You could easily create a grid showing, for example, the maximum hours worked by each employee by each task. For its time it was the best data analysis / decision support tool including data management forms, reports, crosstabs, table views, data import, and graphing. And it had a sensible, easy to use GUI. Try doing all that these days for less than 500 Meg disk space and 1 Gig RAM.

On Saturday January 5, 2008 Scramcat (guest) said:

One of the best features of Reflex was the crosstab. You could easily create a grid showing, for example, the maximum hours worked by each employee by each task. For its time it was the best data analysis / decision support tool including data management forms, reports, crosstabs, table views, data import, and graphing. And it had a sensible, easy to use GUI. Try doing all that these days for less than 500 Meg disk space and 1 Gig RAM.

On Sunday April 15, 2007 guest (guest) said:

Reflex was one of the most widely used databases from early DOS days. It was written so well that it is still used in some places. Included documentation can get you through install, set up, and basic use. very versitile!
C:\DOS
C:\DOS\RUN
RUN\DOS\RUN

On Tuesday March 6, 2007 guest (guest) said:

For its time this was an extremely powerful and easy-to-use database analytic tool, and it's capabilities in file format conversion were in an of themselves good enough to justify the price of the product. One of the best things Borland ever produced.