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- From: cy@genghis.borland.com (Cy Shuster)
- Subject: Re: Clipper Database exist for Macs?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.164504.7070@genghis.borland.com>
- Originator: cy@genghis.borland.com
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- Organization: Borland International
- References: <1992Jul22.170319.1740@rtsg.mot.com> <1992Jul22.230839.23438@midway.uchicago.edu> <14mllmINNonn@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 16:45:04 GMT
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- In article <14mllmINNonn@agate.berkeley.edu> sag@hera.Berkeley.EDU (Steve Goldfield) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul22.230839.23438@midway.uchicago.edu> ejw1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >#>In article <1992Jul22.170319.1740@rtsg.mot.com> wolfmc@rtsg.mot.com (Michael Wolf) writes:
- >#>>I have heard of a databse called Clipper for the PC's.
- >#>>Does it exist for the Mac?
- >#>
- >#>Nope. The closest you can get is FoxBASE+/Mac. You might also look at NuBASE.
- >#>Both use the xBASE command syntax, which is what Clipper uses.
- ^^^^
- Another slight correction: NuBase can directly read and write xBASE format
- .DBF files, but it does *not* use the xBASE command syntax. That's one of
- the things users (validly) assumed when we released it as "dBASE Mac"...
- and one of the things that killed it (expectations out of whack with
- reality). It's still a pretty fair database: it's just not xBASE.
-
- >#>
- >#>Eric
- >
- >Just a slight addendum: Nantucket Software, which produces
- >Clipper, used to have a Mac dBASE program called McMax; I
- >liked it better than FoxBase. When system 7 came out, I
- >phoned them up. They had abandoned McMax and had no plans
- >to upgrade it to run under system 7 (launching it caused
- >the Mac to crash under system 7). However, I think they
- >did tell me they had a Mac project under development.
- >Could be that Clipper will be ported to the Mac. That was
- >more than a year ago.
- >
- >Steve Goldfield
-
- We currently sell a McMax-like product called dBASE IV RunTime Plus,
- but I would only recommend it for people who have developed dBASE IV
- applications on the PC or the Sun and need to also execute them
- on the Mac. FoxBase+ is much more full-featured and Mac-like.
-
- DISCLAIMER: My opinions only.
-
- --Cy--
- cy@borland.com
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