To port your clipper program to linux try using http://www.harbour-project.org/
It is incomplete like it doesn't have a BROWSE like function, but otherwise should do the job. If you'd like to re-write it, any combination of languages and (R)DBMS engines recommended by the list will do. I've done my share of Xbase programming in the past and I can say that mysql offers the closest resemblance to how clipper works with the data. There is the also OpenOffice Base if you want something more desktop like without the hassle of a server management. The possibilities are endless. Adrian On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 21:49 -0400, Alan wrote: > Can anyone suggest a programming tool that is reasonably easy to > understand and preferably cheap...like free.... > I have a program that I wrote a few years ago, written in Dbase3 and > Clipper, which works in DOS, but although it can be read under windows > XP it cannot be worked on due to access to clipper for compiling. > I would like to look at rewriting it in a language that would work in > Linux. It is a reasonably large program with over 17000 lines in it and > uses around 100 databases and associated Index files. > Any suggestions please?? > > Alan >
