> Jim Felton wrote: > > While I would agree Foxbase was a command compatible clone of Dbase, It > was > > a much superior product. Much faster, more stable and multi platform, > > which Dbase tried but failed at. > > Why not Clipper? Object-oriented in DOS days , support ODBC-like drivers > called RDD, and lots of 3rd party libraries! The morons at Nantucket blew it when they came out with version 5 that wasn't backwards compatible -- and was buggy. That's "why not Clipper" and why I switched to FoxPro and have users still running code dating back to 1984. Scott
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