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From: gibsonlp@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Dean A Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: FoxPro questions
Keywords: I'm Alone And Freezing In The Basement == dBase III+ User
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Date: 1 Aug 90 03:14:24 GMT
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In article <14456@venera.isi.edu> jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes:
>In article <5433@uwm.edu> gibsonlp@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Dean A Herman) writes:
>>
>>   I'm most interested in making .EXE files.
>>
>You're SOL, my boy.  It can't be done.
>
No suprise. How about Clipper 5.0? I'm impressed with all the third-party
libraries available, especially 3 P's 3PX. The Nantucket marketing-type
assured me 5.0 creates stand alone .EXE's. More lies? I hope not. Any
Clipper fanatics around willing to throw out opinions? Arago Quicksilver?
Maybe I'll just make a dart board...

>>   Also, anyone working with FoxPro...are there any significant drawbacks? It
>>   simply CAN'T be a step backwards from dBase III+. I'm working with about
>>   30 databases, 7 of which are heavily used. Importing/exporting is a
>>   time consuming headache now, since the databases being moved have up to
>>   150 records in them. I also have a good deal of reports which look into
>>   ^^^
>Is this a typo?  We've got 600-1800 records in our DBs, and I'm of the
>opinion that they're not very big.  Too big, but still not very big.
>

No typo, just vagueness, sorry. I meant, some of the .DBF's have 150+ fields.
No arrays and all. Using FoxPro on one of the largest editable screens I have
is amazing, in comparison to dBase. If I remember correctly, there are 117
fields that must be written. dBase lets me stare at the nice flashing green
'Writing information to database' message. It doesn't even appear with FoxPro.
I'll put some dBase manuals under the pillow and hope the DBMS Fairy has a
liberal upgrade offer.

	- Dean Herman, gibsonlp@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

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