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From: ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Clipper
Message-ID: <25D7442F.8176@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 23:18:08 GMT
References: <22844@usc.edu>
Reply-To: ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
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In article <22844@usc.edu> atieu@skat.usc.edu (Anthony Tieu) writes:
>Need a review on Clipper, the dBASE compiler. Does it really
>compile dBASE code into EXE files without modifications? How
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>is it in support, documentation, bugs, etc.? Any experiences,
>good or bad?

From my (albeit limited) experience there are a number of procedures
that differ from dbase 3 to Clipper.  Usually it takes me about three
hours with a Clipper manual to translate a medium size program.  This is
because of Clipper limitations, the modified program still runs under 
dbase fine.

Alex Jauch
AdCom, UCI
ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu