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From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: To Clip(per) or not to Clip(per).
Message-ID: <1991Mar9.103146.23646@pegasus.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 10:31:46 GMT
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In article <23838@hydra.gatech.EDU> jgb@prism.gatech.EDU (James G. Baker) writes:
>
>You may not like it, but dBase *set the standard* for PC databases many
>moons ago.  Its not used as much at run-time but every Clipper programmer
>has it to bring things up *fast*.

Oh James... just had to set this one straight.  Most Clipper programmers
won't let dBASE on their computers.  Seriously nothing I write could run
in dBASE any longer, don't even have it on my machine for interactive
querying of .DBF files.  A shareware product called Pocket Dot is a very
good alternative which can recognize the .NTX format as well as all the
Clipper functions.

The coolest thing I've seen lately is dClip by Roger Donnay which permits
interactive use of just about anything you can throw at it including
functions from all the third-party libraries.

I just got back from the Australian Clipper DevCon and Roger was there
interactively running code blocks and all sorts of stuff.

tom