Wanted: One Specific Piece of Software

From: Dave McGuire <mcguire_at_neurotica.com>
Date: Sat Dec 29 22:32:41 2001

On December 29, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> > Which aren't what you want. But let me heartily recomend Clipper.
> > It compiles 99% of dBase programs and more. The 2 features I really
> > liked of Clipper where that it worked like a real compiler (ie,
> > compiled to .obj files, linked to .exe. Back in the day I used a 3rd
> > party incremental linker which saved much time during compiles) but
>
> Yes, I used an incremental linker as well ("Blinker" is what it was called
> if I'm not mistaken). It made a tremendous difference on a 286 :)

  I used "tlink" (came with Borland compilers if memory serves) for
linking clipper programs. It was a very good linker.

    -Dave

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Dave McGuire
St. Petersburg, FL         "Less talk.  More synthohol." --Lt. Worf
Received on Sat Dec 29 2001 - 22:32:41 GMT

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