Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-09-02 Thread john s wolter
I'm not sure about the AUTOEXEC.BAT lines, a space character is needed SET CLIPPER=F150; ...I also remember putting a semi-colon between each CLIPPER parameter & a semi-colon at the end. My memory could be off or Harbor may not need that. On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Fabio Muller wrote: >

Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-09-02 Thread Fabio Muller
Em 30-08-2012 19:04, Eric Auer escreveu: > > Hi John, > > if you have Clipper-compiled sources, you can indeed > try to compile them again with the free Harbour clone, > as you already mentioned. There is also a wikipedia > article for those who are new to the topic. As far as > I remember, FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-08-30 Thread john s wolter
Eric, I'll review the threads to see what might work. I guess based on you comments I should try FreeDOS and see what happens. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Eric Auer wrote: > > Hi John, > > if you have Clipper-compiled sources, you can indeed > try to compile them again with the free Harb

Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-08-30 Thread Eric Auer
Hi John, if you have Clipper-compiled sources, you can indeed try to compile them again with the free Harbour clone, as you already mentioned. There is also a wikipedia article for those who are new to the topic. As far as I remember, FreeDOS 1.0 came with a version of this, but it was quite big

Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-08-30 Thread john s wolter
Jean, Thank you for your quick response. I to have worked with FoxPro for DOS and still have more that one license. I'll pull that package out to see what I might do with it. On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Jean MAURICE wrote: > Hi John, > > I am a Fox developper for ... a long time. And may b

Re: [Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-08-30 Thread Jean MAURICE
Hi John, I am a Fox developper for ... a long time. And may be that Fox Dos can help you. If you are interested, you can ask your question on the Profox mailing list that you will find at www.leafe.com I am very happy to discover that I am not alone with old dbf files on DOS !!! Best regard

[Freedos-user] Redoing Clipper DB compiled app

2012-08-30 Thread john s wolter
I'm looking for remarks about porting and running a Clipper compiled dBase(.dbf files) application on FreeDOS. I've used some index add-on libraries which may be an issue in FreeDOS. I have little source code for the libraries. They and Clipper were created using Microsoft C 5.1 of long ago. I