[comp.databases] Clipper help needed...

chris@utgard.uucp (Chris Anderson) (06/11/90)

We're a medium sized shop of C programmers, who have traditionally
used Informix C Isam for our data base needs.  Our corporate offices
have asked us to look into Clipper, so I'd appreciate any help
people can give me...

What are the advantages of Clipper?  We program on both IBM PC's
and Unix machines (Plexus and Pyramid), is there are port of Clipper
available in the Unix world?

How fast is Clipper?  Does it include a C programming interface?

Since we're a C shop, are there going to be any "gotchas" we need
to look out for?

And finally... do you *like* Clipper?  Why or why not?  What does
it do for you that other packages don't?  And what other packages
have you used?

Lot's of questions... if I can get *any* answers I'd really appreciate
it.  Please email your responses.  Of course, if there's any interest,
I'll summarize to the net.

Thanks in advance!

Chris
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