Re: Mildly OT: dBASE IV

"Frank Hamersley" <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message news:LUTeg.356$ap3.192_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> x wrote:
> > "Frank Hamersley" <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com> wrote in message

> > Lots of FoxPro for DOS accounting/inventory applications are still in
use
> > here in Novelia. Clipper 5.01 ones also.

> Must be rare now though - and running in DOS Compatibility mode I guess.
Not that rare. In compatibility mode, yes. Some of them. Some were replaced by versions with Access, Firebird, MySQL.

> > What I did not liked about FoxPro, were the errors I've kept stumbling
on.
> > I'm born on 13, what can I say . :-)

> These are not limited to FoxPro....that said on SCO we had a version
> 2.1.2d that was the only one capable of running all day without running
> out of memory etc. Once we nailed it down it ran for 15 years.

Heh. I once ran a copy of FoxPro for Dos in a Dos Compatibility mode on Linux :-) Received on Tue May 30 2006 - 11:26:20 CEST