Date: Mon, 8 Sep 1997 21:29:46 -0700 (PDT)
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To: Orlando Andico <orly AT dilnet DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>,
        Hermann Strijewski <herman AT sprynet DOT com>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Accessing FoxPRO or dBASE files from DJGPP
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 08:08  9/8/1997 +0800, Orlando Andico wrote:
>There is a "freely" available system called X2c which is a dBASE to C
>compiler (well, it's based on gcc-2.2.x and spits out bare executables
>given dBASE PRG input files). I'm currently playing with this - it's VERY
>good. Source-compatible with Clipper Summer '87, FoxBASE+ 2.x and dBASE
>III+. Only available as binary code (executables and libraries) for Turbo
>C, Borland C, Microsoft C, and GCC under Linux.
>
>You can find it at http://www.on-the-net.net/x2c/
>
>It has a C-language interface, so you can call the database functions from
>a C program. The source code is "freely" available -- that is, if you have
>US$100 to spare for processing. I don't exactly understand OnTheNet's
>distribution policy -- they're willing to part with the source (you can't
>resell the library source or binaries, but anything you make is totally
>unrestricted) but they won't put it up on an FTP site, you have to pay the
>so-called "distribution fee."
Can they do that? If it's based on GCC, presumably it falls under the GPL.
Because of that, you should be able to do anything you please with the
source once you get it, including reselling it or putting it up for ftp. It
seems odd that somebody hasn't done this already.

(rms would be rolling over in his grave, if he were dead.)


Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net