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VFP Runtimes under other than MS OS[ Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#10)
by Anonymous User on Fri May 02, 2003 at 09:45:35 AM PDT

In case anyone forgets, dBase is still out there, awaiting the return of its former fans from the evil empire. My contact at dBase Corp. states that dBase is more than happy to allow users to use the dBase runtimes on any platform they choose. And it is relatively easy to convert VFP source code to dBase source code; after all, the FoxPro language was a direct copy of the dBase language in the first place.

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by EdLeafe on Fri May 02, 2003 at 10:36:26 AM PDT

Many Fox developers started out as dBase developers. They moved to Fox because it so amazingly fast. One reason Microsoft bought Fox software is so that they could own the technology that made Fox so fast. They took that and added it to their SQL Server product, and have been setting speed records with SQL Server ever since.
 
Fox and dBase were last compatible about 10 years ago. Since then, FoxPro was largely re-written into a completely different product, Visual FoxPro, which contained the same fast data engine, but added a full object-oriented language that was based on Xbase syntax. Sure, some old pre-Visual stuff can run, but not very well. I don't believe that dBase's object-oriented code and VFP's are compatible.

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