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From: rwilliam@grebyn.com (Roger Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Dbase IV compiler
Summary: What about the Developers Edition?
Keywords: Why no answer?
Message-ID: <19363@grebyn.com>
Date: 10 Feb 90 01:09:58 GMT
References: <125695@infocenter.UUCP> <418@dbase.A-T.COM>
Reply-To: rwilliam@grebyn.UUCP (Roger Williams)
Organization: nah....
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In article <418@dbase.A-T.COM> awd@dbase.A-T.COM (Alastair Dallas) writes:
>In article <125695@infocenter.UUCP>, mraustad@infocenter.UUCP (Mike Raustad) writes:
>>     Will a program file written and compiled in dBASE IV, run outside
>> of the dBASE IV enviornment?    Thank you.
>
>I distinctly remember answering this question.  The answer is no.  dBASE IV's
>compiler is a psuedo-compiler which generates .dbo files that can only be
>executed in the dBASE IV environment.  However, Ashton-Tate has announced
>a Professional Compiler that will generate .exe files which stand alone.
>The latter Compiler's availability is in the future, unfortunately.

Hmmmm... Where I work, we have a copy of dBASE IV Developers
Edition.  This Developers Edition allows you to generate .dbo
files, link them with DBLINK and run them on machines that do not
have dBASE via the RunTime module that was included in the
Developer's Edition.  I'm a bit suprised Alastair didn't mention
this.

Roger Williams
rwilliam@grebyn.com