Clipper Fans,
I just wanted to post an intro from a "new" user.
I was bitten by the dBase bug during my all too brief stint in college.
I think it was dBase III+ that I started with. I used dBase at home for a
bit until I switched to Linux. That was back in the 1.xx Linux kernel
days. Back then I hadn't heard of Clipper. I kept searching for dBase
like programs for Linux and eventually came across FlagShip. I used the
personal version of FlagShip for a while until they started adding
"nagware" dialog boxes that popped up every time one started a program
compiled with the personal edition. I then started searching again for
other options. I think at that the time I came across the harbour and
xHarbour projects. For some reason harbour wouldn't work for me back
then. It wouldn't display anything on the screen. A simple program like:
Function Main()
? "Hello World!!"
Return
would just display a blank line. At the time I didn't even try xHarbour.
I was under the mistaken impression that xHarbour was an X windows GUI
version of harbour. I prefer TUI interfaces. Anyway, I found clip from
http://www.itk.ru and have been using it for several years. I just gave
harbour another try and the problem I encountered the first time around
appears to be gone. And, my programs run faster with harbour than with
itk.ru's clip. I also tried xHarbour, but I encountered the blank display
problem I mentioned above with the current version of xHarbour. I think I
might be making the switch from clip to harbour.
P.S. If anyone here is the FreeBSD harbour port maintainer or has contact
with him/her, the version of Harbour in the FreeBSD ports tree is 0.44.0.
It looks like it might be time for an update.
Kevin
http://www.RawFedDogs.net
http://www.WacoAgilityGroup.org
Bruceville, TX
Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes.
Longum iter est per praecepta, breve et efficax per exempla!!!
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