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- From: an662@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Leach)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases
- Subject: Clipper and Windows
- Date: 14 Nov 1992 00:04:05 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
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- I've had the 5.01a upgrade for about a month and it seems to be
- a _little_ more stable than 5.01. The EXE's seem to be a little
- faster and an index with a 180 character index key doesn't crap
- out anymore. As for more stable under Windows, I don't recommend
- closing the DOS session without properly exiting the Clipper apps.
- Just telling Windows that you're through with the session and
- to forcibly shut it down will do the same thing as rebooting
- the computer - trash any indexes you have open and maybe corrupt
- the .dbf as well. The only way to prevent this is to change
- to a Windows-aware language or product that Windows can tell
- to shut itself down. CA's Aspen (or CA-Visual Objects for
- Clipper, the official name) *should* do it. But who believes
- Clipper-related hype after Nantucket said 5.0 (not 5.01) would
- be the answer to all of our hopes and dreams...
-
- Mike Leach
- an662@cleveland.freenet.edu
- leacmj@morekypr.bitnet
- leachmj@uc.edu
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