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From: wiz@wiznet.UUCP (Kean Johnston)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Clarion Professional Developer
Message-ID: <1563@wiznet.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 90 12:17:54 GMT
References: <54@frcs.UUCP>
Organization: Progressive Systems
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From article <54@frcs.UUCP>, by paul@frcs.UUCP (Paul Nash):
> What language does it generate?  Is it (hold thumbs :-) ``C'', and if
> so ...
Unfortunately not - I writes the applications in its own language which you
then compile and translate into a raw .EXE file. As yet, Clarion has no
Unix version, but they are working on it in the background. I spoke to one
of the international sales ladies at Clarion, and she said that they did
have plans on releasing a Unix version once they had completed version 3.0
of the designer. Thy are also working on a GUI version so that it will run
on Macs and (I think) under Windows. Don't quote me though :-)

> ... is it portable to other machines (like Unix boxes)? It sounds as
> though there is a special run-time library needed (not surprising!).
> Do you know whether this is available in source form, for other machines,
> or could be developed for other machines?  This could be a nice way
> to cross-develop databane systems ...
Again, no go. Right now it is a purely DOS product.

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