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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: picking between FoxPro and Paradox
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 15:49:11 GMT
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- References: <hh2x.727968142@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> <troj.728016494@cwis>
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- In article <troj.728016494@cwis> troj@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kevin Trojanowski) writes:
- >If you go with Paradox, you gain an easy advantage, in that you can purchase
- >the Paradox Engine, and have your C code directly access the Paradox tables.
- >What this allows you to do is write part of your application in PAL
- >(Paradox Application Language), and have it run external C programs when
- >necessary, but still allow the C code full access to the data without
- >having to go through the overhead of exporting/importing the data.
-
- A library development kit is available for foxpro too, and it includes
- the Watcom compiler and dos extender for running in 32-bit mode.
-
- >I'll freely admit that, like anything similar, there's a bit of a learning
- >curver for the Pdox Engine. However, I've not found it to be an overly
- >difficult one -- just a matter of learning how to setup for the various
- >calls, and understanding how Paradox field types map to C types. It'll
- >take you a couple of days of playing around, but it's none too painful.
-
- Perhaps I don't understand Paradox well enough, but I have never been
- able to build a set of screens, reports, etc. with the interactive
- tools and then easily tie them together into a menu driven application
- with a little program code. In Foxpro it is pretty easy to do that.
- You still have to understand the programming language but it's easy
- to do the bulk of the work with the tools and still attach explicit
- program code where you need it.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-