Re: Mildly OT: dBASE IV

From: Kenneth Downs <knode.wants.this_at_see.sigblock>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 18:56:41 -0400
Message-Id: <q6vuk3-g0d.ln1_at_pluto.downsfam.net>

Frank Hamersley wrote:

> 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.

I was running Visual foxpro on Linux using WINE with exactly one very famous bug: when you started it up, there was no blinking cursor. You minimized then max'd and it was full-blown foxpro running on Linux.

But Microsoft told me that their license, written before Linux existed, prohibited foxpro's use on Linux Who am I to argue with the world's richest company? So I stopped using their products. ho hum.

-- 
Kenneth Downs
Secure Data Software, Inc.
(Ken)nneth_at_(Sec)ure(Dat)a(.com)

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