1. Running Clipper Programs Windows 7 7

This will show you how to have a program run as administrator with full elevated rights and privileges in Windows 7. A Standard user will still not be able to run a elevated program without getting a UAC prompt and having to enter the administrator's password. I’m aware on PC’s running Windows 7 you’ll have them install to “Program Files x86” for 32bit and “Program Files” for 64bit. They’ll both be in the same windows explorer location and will work without issue if you are using the higher architecture 64 bits. Clipper programs will run (reasonably fine) on Windows 7, but only on the x86 (32 bit) variety. Windows x64 (any version, XP, 2003 server, Vista or 7) will not run 16 bit programs. Running 32-bit command-line programs in x64 Windows 7? - posted in Windows 7: I am trying to use the command-line music utility OpenSPC on my Windows 7 machine. It has worked on all previous. Clipper is 16-bit compiler for character-based (not GUI) applications running on MS-DOS platform. There are, however, 3rd-party tools that will allow to produce 16-bit Windows GUI applications. There are, however, 3rd-party tools that will allow to produce 16-bit Windows GUI applications. I have found Clipper to produce extremely well behaved programs under virtually any operating system from DOS through Windows XP, including Lantastic and Novell networks running over DOS as well as Windows networks.

I have a legacy code base written in CLIPPER. I don't have any idea of CLIPPER programming language. How do I get started with it and deploy this application? Is it a scripting language OR some sort of OOPS language any study reference will be helpful

Thanks in Advance

Kaushik

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Clipper is 16-bit compiler for character-based (not GUI) applications running on MS-DOS platform. There are, however, 3rd-party tools that will allow to produce 16-bit Windows GUI applications.

It's still owned by Computer Associates but all future development and support was delegated to GrafX long time ago.

The last released version was 5.3 but many developers stayed with 5.2e. The last update was around Y2K.

There are Harbour and xHarbour open source projects that developed their own compilers for this language (which in the beginning was similar to dBase III).

You can find information about the language and some 3-rd party libs in a Clipper section of this web-site.

Native Clipper compiles all its code into a single executable that runs on user desktops. Its data and index files are usually placed on a network share. Executable itself can also be placed on a share with user desktops having a short-cut to it.

Native Clipper applications (16-bit) will not run under 64-bit Windows. There are emulators (like DosBox) that allow to overcome such limitation.

Clipper related questions can be asked on comp.lang.clipper newsgroup.

If you have more questions add them as comments here.

Another good resource is Norton Guides for Windows, you can download it from a great site with lot of information about Clipper:Download NGW from www.the-oasis.net.

I was unable to find the .NG files on that site, but you can see them online here if you want or try to found the files googling them.

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