Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.icl.net!colt.net!news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!postnews.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 08:49:53 -0500 Message-ID: From: Kenneth Downs Subject: Re: Mildly OT: dBASE IV Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 09:49:18 -0400 References: <1148676764.284927.112120@j73g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> Organization: Secure Data Software, Inc. User-Agent: KNode/0.9.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Lines: 17 X-Trace: sv3-oA3pjaecY3ldJAON4OrrrInPDJ1fB8HC92qVunt4Z5o7uwU7zfdIETcDKI8yJjIneV0WVEGj6zwXI8V!eyhS/KrstEWyBJtr7oqh5qhlJsFi/MULtce0Zk2DMXTlu0fEcSxKhpvChw== X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.32 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.theory:40195 Frank Hamersley wrote: > > My poison was Clipper Summer 87 and then 5.01 from Nantucket (the 2 gold > releases). When Foxpro came out it was seen more as a clone of the > dBase user environment while Clipper was a *woo hoo* compiler (well sort > of)! I ended up using Foxpro on SCO for an app that lasted for 15 years > before it was retired. It was fast and quite reliable. Ah! The one I never used. As i Recall the clipper gang was as devoted as us foxers. -- Kenneth Downs Secure Data Software, Inc. (Ken)nneth@(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)