LD ->Would some patient individual please explane to me what clipper
   ->is?  Is it some kind of programming language or somthing?
It certainly is. Clipper was originally developed back in the
mid-1980's by Nantucket Corp and later was sold to Computer Associates,
the present owner. It was one of the biggest database development
languages in use, but unfortunately it never made the jump from DOS to
Windows. The language was initially a superset (enhanced) version of the
dBASE III+ database program, and many developers made the jump to
Clipper from dBASE. It compiles the program into a standalone program,
not requiring anything else to run.
The present version is 5.3a, while I believe 5.2e is the most common
version in use.
There are two companies who've produced add-ons to allow one to use the
Clipper language in a Windows 3 environment by replacing a lot of the
DOS subsystems with their Windows equivalent.
In fact, an old Windows version of the WordStar word processor was
actually a Clipper program using one of these add-ons.
Raymond Pesek
 * 1st 2.00 #2448 * Moderator - Clipper Echo
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