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From: awd@dbase.a-t.com (Alastair Dallas)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Wanted: dBaseIV to EXE compiler
Summary: Clipper Summer '87
Message-ID: <1991May6.191732.2873@dbase.a-t.com>
Date: 6 May 91 19:17:32 GMT
References: <1991Apr29.231335.4051@ducvax.auburn.edu>
Organization: Ashton-Tate, Inc.
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In article <1991Apr29.231335.4051@ducvax.auburn.edu>, jglover@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
> Does anyone know of/recommend/have a program to take a 
> dBase IV program and compile it to executable code?  Of 
> course, pd or shareware would be preferred, but feel free
> to mention commercial products as well if they are worth it.
> 
> Mail or post your responses, I'm not very picky.

A copy of Clipper Summer '87 (not 5.0, the latest) is probably the most
straightforward way to compile a dBASE application to .exe at this time.
There are several problems, particularly that Clipper is a dBASE III PLUS
compiler with some extensions to the language which are similar, but
not the same as, extensions made from dBASE III PLUS to dBASE IV.

I would be very surprised to hear of a pd or shareware program.

Ashton-Tate has announced a Professional Compiler which will do what
you want, but under the doctrine of "no software before its time,"
I think it will be a little while before this is released.  Also,
it doesn't sound as if you need to pay for a full-blown "professional"
tool.

Hope it helps.

/alastair/

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