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From: AR.HFN@forsythe.stanford.edu (Hooshyar Naraghi)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Clipper for Mac? (hahaha)
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Date: 4 Jun 91 09:21:23 GMT
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In article <1991Jun3.032336.21819@dbase.A-T.COM>,
awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas) writes:
>In article <giPD32@viking.UUCP>, drmath@viking.UUCP (Doctor Math) writes:
>> What databases are there for the Macintosh? Specifically for someone
>> coming from a Clipper background.. Clipper for the Mac would be nice
>
>Your choices on the Mac are:
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.
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>        2) FoxBase/Mac.  An impressively Mac-like product, essentially
>          dBASE III PLUS functionality with menus and radio buttons
>          added to the language.  I've known developers who were very
>          happy with FoxBase/Mac, but one caveat: your Mac apps won't
>          port easily to FoxPro on MS-DOS.
>
I am in the middle of a port from Foxbase+/Mac to Foxpro 1.02, and
it is not as difficult as you sound it here.  I brought in a coder
who knew dbaseIII+, and with minimal help and in 2 months time he
has ported 1 MB out of 1.5 MB of Mac source code to Foxpro 1.02 on
MS-DOS.

Now that Foxpro 2.0 is coming out we can port everything from Mac to
PC except the fonts.  On another note, dBASEIII+ is a subset of
Foxbase+/Mac.  Foxbase+/Mac has special commands and functions that
address specifically the Macintosh interface, such as Macintosh
style windowing capabilities, object oriented form design and report
writer design, memo field scrolling, report scrolling, variety of
button tools including radio button, text buttons, check boxes,
scroll list, & popup list.

Just expressing my experience.
Hooshyar Naraghi
AR.HFN@forsythe.stanford.edu
(415) 324-0155