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- From: viking@iastate.edu (Dan Sorenson)
- Subject: Re: FoxPro and Foxbase
- Message-ID: <viking.711777386@vincent1.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
- References: <1992Jul21.183200.27181@CAM.ORG>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 03:56:26 GMT
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- In <1992Jul21.183200.27181@CAM.ORG> robert@CAM.ORG (Robert Masse) writes:
-
- > Can I compile my Foxbase v2.00 program and run it on a FoxPro v2.00 copy?
- >Ie: Compile a database program under foxbase 2.0 and give it to someone who
- >has Foxpro.
-
- > Does this work? Or would I need to buy a development kit for FoxPro 2.0?
-
- I've seen this question a couple times locally, so figured I post
- for all the world to see. FoxBase and FoxPro do not really compile. It
- might be easiest to think of it as tokenizing things for a really fast
- interpreter to follow. This isn't it exactly, but close enough for our
- purposes. To truly compile, you need the development kit. That makes a
- stand-alone .EXE file, which will run on any compatible machine.
-
- If you want to run FoxBase code under FoxPro, include your source
- code and compile it under FoxPro. You can do the reverse operation, but
- FoxPro has a few nifty functions that FoxBase doesn't and you'll have to
- work around these. Normally there is little problem.
-
- The source is the common link here -- give it to your friend and
- he should be able to run it without problem.
-
- Side Note: I took a FoxPro application on a clone to a Mac, using
- the same database files. It compiled and read the data files fine under
- FoxBase on the Macintosh.
-
- <Dan Sorenson, DoD #1066 |"There'll be angels on Ariels in leather>
- <z1dan@exnet.iastate.edu | and chrome, Ridin' down from heaven >
- <viking@iastate.edu | just to carry me home." -- R. Thompson >
- < ISU thinks I need more education, which they provide for a fee. >
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