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From: Jeffrey Needle on 17 Jul 2010 19:51
Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> Mass response to all. Tried all the suggestions -- nothing works. I'm
>> trying to use the data in Softmaker Office and it seems to require
>> dBaseIV format files for its database. All of these programs open the
>> dBase files, but produce a file not readable by Softmaker.
>
> Do you know Clipper (a xBase compiler)? It got a new life here.
>
> http://www.harbour-project.org
>
> But I suppose you were not a programmer... :)
>

Ha! I used to be. It's interesting that Clipper is alive and well! I
never thought it. It's been a long time since I've programmed anything.
This looks like it might be fun to mess with. Thanks.
From: Jeffrey Needle on 17 Jul 2010 19:54
B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:05:00 -0700, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
>
>> When you create a dBase-compatible file and try to open it in Softmaker
>> Office, there can be unexpected problems. [...]
>
> Hm. Although most tests I ran through Softmaker worked out fine, you
> may have specialities in your data, that don't come out so well with
> that Office suite.
>
> Maybe you switch to Open Office?

Believe me, it's never far from my thoughts. But it's such a big,
heavy-feeling app. It may be that it will be where I finally end up.

Thanks!
From: Jeffrey Needle on 17 Jul 2010 22:27
Bear Bottoms wrote:
> Jeffrey Needle<jeff.needle(a)gmail.com> wrote in news:i1tfr1$t5t$2
> @news.eternal-september.org:
>
>> B. R. 'BeAr' Ederson wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:05:00 -0700, Jeffrey Needle wrote:
>>>
>>>> When you create a dBase-compatible file and try to open it in Softmaker
>>>> Office, there can be unexpected problems. [...]
>>>
>>> Hm. Although most tests I ran through Softmaker worked out fine, you
>>> may have specialities in your data, that don't come out so well with
>>> that Office suite.
>>>
>>> Maybe you switch to Open Office?
>>
>> Believe me, it's never far from my thoughts. But it's such a big,
>> heavy-feeling app. It may be that it will be where I finally end up.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>
> Google Docs works for me Jeffrey.
>

No database module yet. That's the key for me. Is there one in the offing?


From: Bill Bradshaw on 18 Jul 2010 14:00
I still have Clipper Summer 87 and version 5.0 on my shelf. I think my last
Clipper program was in 1990. I moved on to C and Sequiter Codebase. Brings
back memories.

<Bill>

Man-wai Chang wrote:
>> Mass response to all. Tried all the suggestions -- nothing works. I'm
>> trying to use the data in Softmaker Office and it seems to require
>> dBaseIV format files for its database. All of these programs open the
>> dBase files, but produce a file not readable by Softmaker.
>
> Do you know Clipper (a xBase compiler)? It got a new life here.
>
> http://www.harbour-project.org
>
> But I suppose you were not a programmer... :)


From: Man-wai Chang on 19 Jul 2010 03:21
> Ha! I used to be. It's interesting that Clipper is alive and well! I
> never thought it. It's been a long time since I've programmed anything.
> This looks like it might be fun to mess with. Thanks.

Indeed. You could finally run your old apps in 64-bit Linux over a
network console! ;)

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