>Hi Mike,
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>I saw your comments about xHarbour and wondering where I can get my hands on some intro stuff on the language. It's been years since I've done anything with clipper. I used to have clipper 5 years ago but didn't do much with it since Visual Foxpro had come out.
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>thanks,
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>Don

Hi Don,

Info at http://www.xharbour.com and http://www.xharbour.org

There is some header info that needs to be included in the main procedure for xHarbour to use compound indexes. The dos utilization actually preprocesses the .prg files into C compatible files which are then compiled into a .exe file using a free Borland C command line compiler.

Typical Clipper utilization is to use files with a .prg extension and run the compiler at the initial .prg. xHarbour requires a procedure main at the header of the main procedure and a procedure statement in all called .prg's. Variables used will cause a lot of warning messsages but will not cause a failure of the compile.

REQUEST DBFCDX
REQUEST DBFFPT
REQUEST HB_NOMOUSE
REQUEST ORDKeyno, ORDKeycount

Procedure Main
RDDSETDEFAULT("DBFCDX")
MEMVAR GetList

This is the header I use at the header of my main .prg, the MEMVAR GetList declaration is used in all .prg's to supress some of the undeclared warnings during the compile.

Hope this helps.