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From: duvalj@bionette.cgrb.orst.edu (Joe Duval - Entomology)
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 15:27:25 GMT
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In article <5468@uwm.edu> gibsonlp@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Dean A Herman) writes:
>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...

Well, I'm still waiting for Clipper 5.0.  They were supposed to be shipping
on 27 July.  Anyway, I've been using Clipper for about 2 1/2 years now.  I 
like it a lot.  YES you can create stand alone .EXE's.  In fact, that is all
you can create.  There is no development environment so you use your favorite
text editor and compile from the command line.  I have a fast (33Mhz 386) 
machine that I use for development and can use Desqview to have a DOS window
for compiling and my editor in another.  I can even use Borland's TLINK to 
do the linking.

This becomes a drawback for small programs or for testing hypotheses.  You are
forced to go through the steps of creating the program, compiling and then
running unlike the pseudo-compilers that interpret the code.  I don't know 
what 5.0 will have to offer in place of this but there seem to be plenty of
other important goodies.  Faster, more efficient compiling, better array 
handling, etc.

The programs are solid, fast, and completely my own.  I like it.  I can do
most everything my C programs can do because I can link Clipper and C.

*** I don't have even the remotest affiliation with Nantucket.  I just like
*** Clipper.

-Joe

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