From: Lan B. <la...@fa...> - 2006-07-14 16:43:48
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Count me as a wannabe who plans to use it for a personal project just as soon as I find the time (ha! "find time" indeed!). FWIW, I dream of using the XDB library and Tcl/Tk to create a GPL FoxPro clone under Linux. Whether it would read FoxPro code and execute it, or (more likely) translate it once into a metacode or Tcl code file, I haven't decided. But it's be fun to give new life to all that legacy FoxPro stuff. My wife keeps trying to get me to throw the old FoxPro books and manuals out, and I keep saying, no, no, I'm going to _need_ them someday. ... just a cockeyed optimist. I figure I have about three calendar years of personal projects to complete before I get to this one. On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 09:04:06AM -0700, Gary Kunkel wrote: > > It is good to hear that it worked. > > Does anyone have any idea how much xbase or xdb is being used out in the real world? > > Gary Kunkel > -- Lan Barnes Linux Guy, SCM Specialist Tcl/Tk Enthusiast For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. - Benjamin Franklin |