On 2016-10-24 16:25, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> C/C++ language-specific groups seem to have mostly evaporated in the
> past decade or so as other languages have become more popular in
> general.
> Most of the sites I used to hang out on are no longer functioning.
> http://www.cprogramming.com/ is still running, and is a good starting
> point.
Nice site!
> Last I heard the #C channel on freenode IRC was still useable, but I
> can't check that directly at the moment.
> StackOverflow is decent when you have reasonably specific questions,
> but it can be a bit of effort to wade through the voluminous content
> to find what you want.
>
> For your specific project, there are some domain-specific communities
> that might offer pointers, suggestions, and code examples:
> https://harbour.github.io/ An implementation of the Clipper system
> which compiles xBase code and supports multiple backends including
> dbf.
> http://www.clicketyclick.dk/databases/xbase/format/index.html The dbf
> file format documentation.
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/dbase/ An existing (very small,
> possibly abandoned) dbf file library written in C with some C++
> wrappers.
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/xdb/ Another (definitely abandoned)
> xBase library in C++
>
> Hopefully those help.
Joseph,
You appear to be someone who was an xBase developer in another lifetime.
I started programming using dBase II in the mid 80's. I ended my xBase
time in 2000 and was using VFP 6 at the time. I think VFP was the best
file server database engine and dev tool and probably still is. I
recall FoxBase+ being rated as having the best data engine in the late
80's.
VFP's data engine would allow it to scale to, I would guess, 1000's of
users. It was file server and was in a great niche - RAD tool for small
business.
I worked for a manufacturing company in the mid 90's that was using
FoxPro Dos to run their business. I think we had just shy of 200 users.
This was a manufacturing company so their needs were very complex.
I think there is a niche that is going under served by the death of VFP.
I believe the death of VFP was due to it being purchased by Microsoft.
At the time I believed M$ bought VFP to acquire the data engine for
MS-Access. It appears that was not the case. It is unclear to me why
M$ bought Fox.
It would be nice if there was an open source project to build a VFP that
could run on Linux, Windows, and Mac. Not a VFP that does all things for
all people. No web building tools just a simple RAD file server DB tool
that developers could use to create small business applications.
Thank you for the references and the walk down memory lane!!
Keith
>
> On 10/23/2016 08:20 AM, Keith Smith wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Looking for suggestions C/C++ user group / mailing list.
>>
>> I have very little experience with C and would like to create some
>> libraries for managing dBase files (.dbf).
>>
>> Thank you in advance!!
>>
>> Keith
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