Salut Ron Tuynman !
  RT> Delphi has several advantages to Clipper, but for
  RT> my -- very humble -- opinion Clipper is more direct in handling
  RT> databases.
Clipper does'nt handle any databases, it only handle indexed files.
Delphi access either indexed files (like DBF) or real DataBases like SQL 
Server, Oracle and others.
For me, in order to consider a system a database, it must at least 
handle referential integrity and transaction.
Amiti‚s,
{-Francois Piette-}
francois.piette@ping.be
http://www.rtfm.be/fpiette
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