Comments on: DBASE III and friends.

By: Rene

Rene — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 17:38:07 +0000

Hi!

Wadda you know? Today I went up the attic and found the original CA-Clipper 5.3 box I had stached 2 decades ago. Manuals still sealed in plastic and the original 3.5″ diskettes still in their sealed envelopes. Never used!!

Ah, those good old times…

Cheers, Rene

By: neozeed

neozeed — Fri, 15 May 2015 00:15:15 +0000

In reply to Lothar Hoedl. You are probably 20+ years too late for good manuals from the day... But you should check out Harbour, it not only compiles 'xbase' code, but it can target fun things like Windows (win32/win64), Linux, OS X, OS/2 and yes, even MS-DOS. And the best part is that it's being actively maintained!

By: Lothar Hoedl

Lothar Hoedl — Thu, 14 May 2015 17:59:33 +0000

DBase III the best, I wrote a Business application for a repair shop I had then and it worked great. I still have the Programm and my application written in Dot Promt. I am now looking for a Manual on DBASE Compiler but can’t find to compile this application I wrote.

By: Double Aught Code

Double Aught Code — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:04:03 +0000

…you’ll have to search high and low and promise your first born to anyone who still has a manual that was pre-1989.

By: Double Aught Code

Double Aught Code — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:03:08 +0000

dBase I was, is, and will always be the best tool to work with. Especially those of us that understand the command operators from v.1 to v.3.1.

Five characters and I do anything I want after that on ANY machine!!!

Most people dont know that even Mac and Linux break down to communicate to a dBase shell before going assembly…