u5533129@ucsvc.ucs.unimelb.edu.au (02/12/91)
> I'm considering taking on a project which would involve two or three computers > sharing a common database and perhaps a dial-in capability. I'm told Clipper > supports multiple users and have thus been considering writing the software in > Clipper and handling the dial-in aspect by running something like Procomm in > "host mode". Clipper is a bit of a problem at the moment. The current version, 5.0, is buggy, and after five months my copy is still sitting on the shelf while I wait for the fix. The previous version, Summer '87, is very useable, and we have written a lot of stuff in it here. See if you can get a copy of that. Procomm host mode will only intercept screen writes via DOS, which isn't very useful. I can, however, recommend a shareware package called Telereplica, which seems to work well for us (although I've only been running it for a week). It is shareware, for a $25 registration. I can mail you a copy, or you can get it off SIMTEL. Hope this helps, Peter Summers