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Clipper was a compiler for the [[Dbase II]] product, which allowed programmers to compile .prg files into an executable, that could in turn read Dbase data files.  In the 1980's this was a popular way of shipping database applications prior to the rise of Microsoft Access.
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Clipper was a compiler for the [[Dbase II]] product, which allowed programmers to compile .prg files into an executable, that could in turn read Dbase data files.  In the 1980's this was a popular way of shipping database applications prior to the rise of Microsoft Access.  Clipper applications ran under [[MS-DOS]].  As time went by there were even support for various 286 dos extenders for the original clipper 87 compiler.
  
 
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Clipper

Clipper was a compiler for the Dbase II product, which allowed programmers to compile .prg files into an executable, that could in turn read Dbase data files. In the 1980's this was a popular way of shipping database applications prior to the rise of Microsoft Access. Clipper applications ran under MS-DOS. As time went by there were even support for various 286 dos extenders for the original clipper 87 compiler.