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We are having a history lesson updating a system that was built around 1985.
It's a custom built sales and customer tracker, programmed in Clipper, which is a superset of xBase, that is a language that appears to be data orientated. DosBox and Dosemu have both failed to run it, the programs loads and indexes just fine, but when it gets to the program dashboard it shows the options and doesn't seem to accept any input, though it appears to be running as the time updates (any ideas?)
Tried compiling the source using harbour, compilation fails, something about "time" having too many arguments and other obscure errors. Urgh.
Dbf files are easily converted and opened but really we want to view the working program to see the relations so we can translate the data models.
It's both fascinating and infuriating at the same time.
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