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An application that has worked for years has turned to custard - The files OPEN ok but SEEK on one particular 3000 record stock database no longer works for some routines. Appplication created with Clipper 5.2b linked with RTLINK 3.14b Have copied the files to another computer where it all...

There is a book that was very good for beginners called 'Using Clipper' written by W. Edward Tiley. You can have my copy (if we negotiate a package deal). Clipper was for DOS and no-one wants DOS packages any more. It is time to move on and to move your clients to a Windows environment (because...

HI, I had to use Valkyrie to decompile an .EXE file once. It worked OK - dunno where U get it from nowadays though. Cheers, Jim

Griff, Have been away - sorry - lateness, etc Thanks for the tip - eXPress++ fortunately included similar functions all set up in .CH files. By now your new 32bit yeehaw Windows version is up and running and everyone is ecstatic - right? Some feedback from your client would interest me. Your...

Hi, I have created my own background task that schedules such tasks as INDEX, PACK and HEADER AUDIT for overnight and weekends. The scheduler (written in CLIPPER) also handles tasks for MONTH-END and YEAR-END ageing and purging routines and cleardowns. Each scheduled task can be re-scheduled by...

xBASE++ is supplied with exactly what you need to do this. The 2 files are called DINO.BAT and AUTOXPP.BAT and should already be loaded on your computer. Read page 4 of the xBASE++ Basic Users Guide in the section "Switching the environment". If you have not installed the product...

Hi, Had a similar problem with old version of xBASE++. This has been completly resolved since I went up to the latest version 1.82. Because I plan for the application to be around for a long time into the future I also put some effort into using the Windows Printers and specifying different...

Greetings, Previously I have posted some adverse comments about XBASE++ and EXPRESS++ migration because I had unresolved errors. Now I want to put the record straight - we have SUCCESS!! With help from the XBASE support guys and from Roger Donnay we diagnosed that my problems were localised on...

Thank you BOZZ - a lot of useful stuff But.... no workaround for this particular problem XP to XP(with USB captured to LPT1) Will continue to investigate

From XP can re-direct print to 5 network printers LPT2 thru LPT6. NET USE LPTn \\computer\printer is fine. All shared printers attached to WIN98-SE computers. Added a new computer with WIN-XP-Home and attached a Brother Laser via USB cable. Shared the printer OK. Had to CAPTURE LPT1: on this...

Apart from ensuring that your DOS environment settings are optomised via CONFIG.NT (DEVICEHIGH=EMM386.EXE NOEMS) you might check out the antivirus.... Latest Norton AV runs a virus check over every file as it is opened... this can take a long time with some Clipper Apps (that customarily have...

You raise an interesting business ethic Griff about 10% retentions. A programmer is worthy of his hire. A programmer is often called back in (sometimes decades after development) to make repairs or changes to an application. The trick to being available is to stay in business... ie to stay...

Ian Boys - thank you for your efforts on this matter I really appreciate your time and trouble. I already do have a function that takes in parameters for filename, alias, shared/exclusive, retrytime time, attempts and it was via this function that my problems occurred. So I wrote a test...

I have 2 ledgers on the same server in different directories One services the NZ market and the other services AUSTRALIA. The file names are common to both directories. We must move stock between the 2 ledgers. The Clipper 5.2c manual says 'Fine - just make sure that unique ALIASes are used for...

I have used HYBRID mode to convert my Clipper apps as they already exist from DOS to Windows 32 bit so that my clients could be in a comfort zone about the future support of their/my applications under future versions of Windows. By far the most tedious and time-consuming task was having to...