Re: Mildly OT: dBASE IV

From: Frank Hamersley <terabitemightbe_at_bigpond.com>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 12:21:06 GMT
Message-ID: <SMWeg.467$ap3.461_at_news-server.bigpond.net.au>


x wrote:
> "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 :-)

Thats desperation for you! Cheers Frank. Received on Tue May 30 2006 - 14:21:06 CEST

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