Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!egvideo!timk
From: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Clipper -> Foxbase/C/?: Recommendations wanted
Message-ID: <1919@egvideo.UUCP>
Date: 5 Feb 89 05:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: timk@egvideo.UUCP (Tim Kuehn)
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Organization: E. G. Video Marketing Corp., Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
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I have an application where a client wants to transfer a large (around 
30K+ lines of code) application currently written in Clipper to either 
Foxbase/+ or C. My question for the net is: 

Are there any programs out there that automatically do the conversion for 
you? How well do they do the translation? How much work do *I* have to
do?

According to my client he's already tried a demo copy of a piece of SW that
does Clipper -> Foxbase and it had a 40% failure rate. He also knows about
a piece of SW named DBXC which takes (clipper or dbase III +: I don't know
which) and translates it over to C code. Has anyone had any experiences they'd
care to share? 

If there are others interested in this please email me, and I'll summarize
to the net.


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