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CA-Clipper is a 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 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.
Clipper 5.0 (1990) brings with it rudimentary object-oriented extensions to the xBase language.
Clipper 5.01 (Apr 1991)

From Computer Associates

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

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

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 ==Versions==
-* Clipper Summer 87 - Delivered in 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.
+;From Nantucket Corporation
-* Clipper 5.0 brings with it rudimentary object-oriented extensions to the xBase language.
+* Clipper 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.
+* Clipper 5.0 (1990) brings with it rudimentary object-oriented extensions to the xBase language.
+* Clipper 5.01 (Apr 1991)
+;From Computer Associates
+*'''CA Clipper 5.01a''' (1992)
+*'''CA-Clipper 5.2''' (Feb 1993)
+**CA-Clipper 5.2e (Feb 1995) - latest bugfix
+*'''CA-Clipper 5.3''' (Jun 1995), last version delivered as a DOS product, added support for numeric co-processor and DOS Graphic Modes.
+**CA-Clipper 5.3a (May 1996)
+**CA-Clipper 5.3b (May 1997)
+;Add-on products
 * Clipper VO v.1.0 - December 1995
-* '''Clipper 5.3''', last version delivered as a DOS product, first version that is able to take advantage of a numeric co-processor and DOS Graphic Modes.
+*CA-Clipper Tools - extension library
-:Clipper 5.3a and 5.3b are bug fix releases of 5.3
+*CA-Clipper/Compiler Kit for dBASE IV
 ==License==