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New DOA, too. Now, if you want something along these lines...
I'd suggest: [link|http://www.fship.com|http://www.fship.com]

Compiles most Xbase crap and will run it on Linux.

As far as a "desktop database" goes, even the PITA POS MS Access is a hell of a lot better than Xbase. Xbase is just so 80's. ;0)
bcnu,
Mikem

It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
New xbase is useful, access is just annoying
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli

Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
New For very small values of 'useful' ;0)
bcnu,
Mikem

It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
New wrote automated Grocery store inventory and sales with xbase
bar-codes scanning registers, inventory restocking levels, complete GL accounting. Tad more than small.
thanx,
bill
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli

Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
New Same here. But I moved on.
Worked for a Fortune 100 company that did its entire GL with it, also ASN notification (internal and external customers) and personally wrote a golf shop app that handled multiple stores - inventory, barcode, point-of-sale, quoting, etc. Still, unless you're working with very small datasets, it sucks. And, it's moot anyway because it is dead or nearly so.

I was a Clipperhead from 1986-1994.
bcnu,
Mikem

It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
New Grumpfish Lives!



"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"   --Mark Twain

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."   --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."   --George W. Bush
New Hadn't thought of that in years. ;0)
bcnu,
Mikem

It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
New Bleargh.
Ever use Zachary?
Regards,

-scott anderson

"Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson..."
New Nope



"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect"   --Mark Twain

"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."   --Albert Einstein

"This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses."   --George W. Bush
New fun stuff for its day, after working with Oracle the last 2
years I find the suckage rate not to be that bad. Clarify I am not a DBA Im a sysadm who had to support DBA's with differing values of Suck
thanx,
bill
"the reason people don't buy conspiracy theories is that they think conspiracy means everyone is on the same program. Thats not how it works. Everybody has a different program. They just all want the same guy dead. Socrates was a gadfly, but I bet he took time out to screw somebodies wife" Gus Vitelli

Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free american and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 49 years. meep
questions, help? [link|mailto:pappas@catholic.org|email pappas at catholic.org]
New Beats SQL for some things
SQL can be difficult to factor out repetition of code/concepts. For example, you cannot reference repeated concepts by name, having to use nesting instead, which sometimes results in duplication when the references are not really tree-shaped. Time to dump SQL for better relational languages that don't try to mirror COBOL synax.

Further, most Xbase dialects lets one define a UDF while most RDBMS do not, at least not without special previlegdes.

I am not saying Xbase is perfect, but sometimes it gets around problems found in SQL and/or MS-Access for custom chomping beyond simple queries. The industry tends to force one to use Big-Iron SQL in combination with MS-Access, and those two are both half-ass.

My current gig requires a lot of custom chomping of data, so I need better tools. My partners do a lot of shit by hand that I would rather automate somehow. I cannot compete with their manual mass-copy-and-paste efforts because I am not used to so much manual stuff. I am not geared to be keyboard clerk. The problem is that it is tough to sell them on more automation and factoring because they are so fast and used to manual typing. They get edgy when I try to introduce scripts. I think they fear being automated out of work, but won't admit it. It's not like there is not plenty to do now, but maybe in slow times the scripts could result in staff reduction.
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oop.ismad.com
New Gotta register to SEE prices? Suspicious
Besides, it appears to be a Clipper clone, and clipper tends to be less interactive than interpretative dialects.
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oop.ismad.com
New Huh? Personal is Free for download.
Whatchasmokin' dude?

[link|http://www.fship.com/prices.html|http://www.fship.com/prices.html]
bcnu,
Mikem

It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
New Free version is Linux only
Nothing against Linux, but due to QWERTY syndrome, most biz's use Windows.
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oop.ismad.com
New But you don't have to just to eval it.
bcnu,
Mikem

It would seem, therefore, that the three human impulses embodied in religion are fear, conceit, and hatred. The purpose of religion, one might say, is to give an air of respectibility to these passions. -- Bertrand Russell
New ICLRPD (new thread)
Created as new thread #224427 titled [link|/forums/render/content/show?contentid=224427|ICLRPD]
jb4
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     $880.00 for dBASE ??? - (tablizer) - (23)
         Educational version? - (warmachine) - (1)
             Says edu version expires in one year -NT - (tablizer)
         If they lower the price, will they sell more copies? - (ben_tilly) - (2)
             Probably more pissed about the dying product ;-) -NT - (admin) - (1)
                 Nothing lasts forever, except Lisp and Lisp fanatics - (tablizer)
         try clipper :-) -NT - (boxley) - (17)
             DOA, too. Now, if you want something along these lines... - (mmoffitt) - (15)
                 xbase is useful, access is just annoying -NT - (boxley) - (9)
                     For very small values of 'useful' ;0) -NT - (mmoffitt) - (8)
                         wrote automated Grocery store inventory and sales with xbase - (boxley) - (6)
                             Same here. But I moved on. - (mmoffitt) - (5)
                                 Grumpfish Lives! -NT - (tuberculosis) - (3)
                                     Hadn't thought of that in years. ;0) -NT - (mmoffitt)
                                     Bleargh. - (admin) - (1)
                                         Nope -NT - (tuberculosis)
                                 fun stuff for its day, after working with Oracle the last 2 - (boxley)
                         Beats SQL for some things - (tablizer)
                 Gotta register to SEE prices? Suspicious - (tablizer) - (3)
                     Huh? Personal is Free for download. - (mmoffitt) - (2)
                         Free version is Linux only - (tablizer) - (1)
                             But you don't have to just to eval it. -NT - (mmoffitt)
                 ICLRPD (new thread) - (jb4)
             Clipper is not interactive enough for my tastes -NT - (tablizer)

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