CA-Clipper

CA-Clipper is an application development system for DOS and LAN environments.

History
In 1992 the Nantucket Corporation was sold to Computer Associates and the product was renamed to CA-Clipper.

Versions
from Nantucket Corporation
 * Clipper
 * Autumn '86
 * Summer '87 (Jan 1988) Speed and feature improvements especially in the debugger, mostly rewritten in C using Microsoft C. First version to actually ship with a manual but prior to this you were expected to have access to a dBase III manual - By many considered the first well working version of the program - List price USD 695.
 * 5.0 (1990) brings with it rudimentary object-oriented extensions to the xBase language.
 * 5.01 (Apr 1991)

from Computer Associates
 * CA-Clipper
 * 5.01a (1992)
 * 5.2 (Feb 1993)
 * 5.2e (Feb 1995) - latest bugfix
 * 5.3 (Jun 1995), last version delivered as a DOS product, added support for numeric co-processor and DOS Graphic Modes.
 * 5.3a (May 1996)
 * 5.3b (May 1997)


 * Add-on products
 * Clipper VO v.1.0 - December 1995
 * CA-Clipper Tools - extension library
 * CA-Clipper/Compiler Kit for dBASE IV

License

 * Closed source commercial software - Discontinued

Author

 * Nantucket Software (Original developer)
 * Computer Associates
 * GrafX Software

Links
See also: Clipper
 * CA-Clipper promotional demonstration - From 1992 - Runs under DOS
 * Gene Smilgiewicz: A review of Clipper Summer 87 - From PC magazine 1988
 * Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ 2.31) about CA-Clipper and CA-Visual Objects