From dBase4 to Windows

[WilliamL]

Hi all, I am glad to have found this forum, and hopefully, I can find the answer I am looking for.
I have programs written under dBase4 for DOS, and have a problem that dBase4 is not 2K compliant (i.e. does not recognize dates like 2/29/00). Which dBase version should I buy to convert these programs to run under a Windows (98SE) native window? I would prefer minimal re-writing of the programs as I have so many programs tried and tested and used all these years. Please let me know where I could buy such a version. I went to the Borland site and it looks like dBase 5.7 should do the trick, but they do not sell this version separately.

Thanks in advance.

ArthurL

 

[MiggyD]

The only version currently available (that I'm aware of) is dB2K. You can check it out at

http://www.dbase.com/

If you had gone to the Borland site (about 1 1/2 ago) and fished around, you might have come across a news artical (I just checked it today and couldn't find the artical) in which Borland was no longer supporting dBASE at all and, with that, they sold dBASE (trademark and all) to another company.

I had looked around that company's site, just to find out, that they, themselves, sold it to yet another company which happes to be the one at the above address. (whew! don't you just love going in circles?)

My only other suggestion is to check out different auction sites (such as ebay) and keep your fingers crossed.

--MiggyD It's better to have two heads to solve a problem from different angles than to have tunnel vision to a dead end.