jayen@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Jayen Vaghani) (06/06/91)
We are looking for a Clipper-like program for SCO Unix 386. That is, a
program for compiling dbase programs into native executable code. We don't
want something like Foxplus which compiles into interpreted code. This would
be too slow for our purposes. I have heard rumours of Foxplus having a native
code compiler. Can anyone confirm this one way or another? Otherwise, what
other products are available?
Thanks, Jayen.
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ARPA: jayen%munnari.oz@uunet.uu.nettleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) (06/07/91)
In article <1991Jun6.065728.20067@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> jayen@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Jayen Vaghani) writes: >We are looking for a Clipper-like program for SCO Unix 386. That is, a >program for compiling dbase programs into native executable code. We don't >want something like Foxplus which compiles into interpreted code. This would >be too slow for our purposes. I have heard rumours of Foxplus having a native >code compiler. Can anyone confirm this one way or another? Otherwise, what >other products are available? > Jayen, I can't be of any help on your quest but just to avoid any future arguments you might have with someone... Clipper is a tokenizing compiler and not a native code compiler. Last native code version was A'86 as far as I recall. tom leylan (ex-Senior Systems Analyst / Nantucket Corporation)
statham@cactus.org (Perry L. Statham) (06/13/91)
In article <1991Jun6.065728.20067@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> jayen@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Jayen Vaghani) writes: >We are looking for a Clipper-like program for SCO Unix 386. That is, a >program for compiling dbase programs into native executable code. We don't >want something like Foxplus which compiles into interpreted code. This would >be too slow for our purposes. I have heard rumours of Foxplus having a native >code compiler. Can anyone confirm this one way or another? Otherwise, what >other products are available? - THE GOOD NEWS - I have talked with Fox Software and they have confirmed that they are going to come out with a FoxPro compiler for Unix/Xenix that would produce a binary image. - THE BAD NEWS - They will be STARTING the project in this fall. This means it will be far in the future before the product will be released to the market. I guess Fox just does not make as much money off of the Unix market as opposed to the DOS market ;-). - THE BEST NEWS - What you really need to do is talk with the folks at DeskTop Ai. He has a product called x2c (pronounced like ecstasy) that translates X-Base source code into ANSI-C. The c source can then be run on any platform you want. Contact Rich Roth DeskTop Ai 303 Linewood Ave. Fairfield, CT 06430 (203) 255-3400 (Voice) (203) 259-8853 (Fax) uunet!dtop -- Perry Lee Statham \ | / perry@statham.cactus.org - * - H> (512) 335-3881 Can You Grok It? / | \ W> (512) 467-1396