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Joe Wright wrote:
> 
> I've use DJGPP since the first v2 release in 1996. I've upgraded
> several times but DJGPP still serves me well. That it and its
> progeny are DOS apps rather than native Windows has never
> concerned me.
> 
> I also program in CA-Clipper. The Clipper compiler and its progeny
> are also DOS apps. Again, no problem for me.
> 
> In its own infinite wisdom, Computer Associates determined to kill
> Clipper despite an active user and developer base.
> 
> Many Clipper developers banded together to create an open-source
> alternatives to Clipper called Harbour and xHarbour. Look 'em up.
> 
> The Harbour compiler is in fact a C program whose intermediate
> output is again a C program. All of Harbour involves itself in a
> C environment.
> 
> I can implement Harbour under DJGPP rather than MinGW for example.
> Were you me, which would you choose? Why?
> 
> I know where this is posted (comp.os.msdos.djgpp) and expect some
> bias.

I think it should not matter.  99% of the system should be in
standard portable C (or other standardized language).  The original
system did not need multitasking etc, so the replacement does not
either, and thus standard C should suffice for everything except
the odd UI operation.  IIRC Clipper is and was a descendent of
DBase II, which in turn was born under CP/M and was customizable
with only a few known screen control sequences.  At worst you may
require a dependance on pdcurses or ncurses.

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"The most amazing achievement of the computer software industry
 is its continuing cancellation of the steady and staggering
 gains made by the computer hardware industry..." - Petroski

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