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From: tomr@ashtate (Tom Rombouts)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Useful Clipper Material...
Message-ID: <1559@ashton.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 90 17:22:55 GMT
References: <1990Oct30.163937.26480@oz.plymouth.edu>
Reply-To: tomr@ashton.UUCP (Tom Rombouts)
Organization: Ashton-Tate, Torrance, CA
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In article <1990Oct30.163937.26480@oz.plymouth.edu> derykm@oz.plymouth.edu (Dez) writes:
>Hi.
>
>I am looking for good material, such as Books and magazines, that will
>help me in my programming with Clipper.  

Rick Spence's "Programming in Clipper" is in a league by itself.  There
is simply no other book that compares to it (IMHO) in discussing the
subtleties, tricks and problems of serious Clipper development.  (It
is published by Micro Trend (i.e., Data Based Advisor) in San Diego.)
BTW, I don't know when an edition discussing 5.0  (aka "Summer '90")
will be available.  However, Rick has had an ongoing series in 
DBMS Mag on new features in 5.0, and obtaining these would be a good
start toward the brave, new world of 5.0.

Que's "Using Clipper" by Wiley is good for serving as a bootleg
manual for Clipper.  It provides a comprehensive command listing,
as well as introductory material on linking, overlays, etc.


Tom Rombouts  Torrance Techie  tomr@ashate.A-T.com  V:(213)538-7108