[XDB-users] using XDB... was Re: building xbase under MinGW

[Denis B. <ds...@cy...>]

At 05:44 AM 15/07/2006, you wrote:
>Great!  Thanks Gary.  I'll help changing it back if want.


Back to Gary's question... how much use is it getting?

I came upon it while working with psychological test batteries, especially 
CAMDEX which uses Clipper format dbf's in its older implementation.   One 
of the study groups wanted to do double-entry work, something for which 
CAMDEX had not been designed - and no-one told the group until they'd 
gallons of data entered :-)

So I now grab their dbf's, parse them for silly entries, duplicates, etc 
and then perform a difference report so they can go back to the coding 
sheets and work out which one has the typos.    XDB running on Debian 
GNU/Linux very happily.

I, too, would like to revisit some old projects but like many others find 
the elusivity of time to be a key factor.

Gary, Derry et al thanks for a great product.
Denis