On 27 Apr, 04:04, JonWat <jonwaterho...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Well, if you've been usingClarion5 a bit, you probably have a good
> idea of what might be useful to convert. I think you'll probably find
> that, though some of the DOS code still runs, that you are better off
> rewriting it using the ABC cl*****: in general this will involve
> writing much less code than you used to have, which will save
> maintenance costs down the road. Code that might make sense to bring
> over is stuff that defines a transaction, although in converting to a
> "proper" database you will probably want to convert these to stored
> procedures on the database. Also, in the conversion to a database you
> should change all your process procedures to SQL statements --
> actually that applies to most things that loop through "records".
>
> It depends on your app what code you might end up with from what you
> have inClarionfor DOS, but I'd suggest that it would be very little
> - less than 5%.
>
> Jon
>
Thanks, Jon for your useful advice!
clara
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