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> Does anyone know of a Clarion decompiler?
Back in the ancient days of CPD, several of us collaborated to make a
"decompiler" for the now defunct CPD product. It could bring back the
code from the dead, however labels had to be auto-named and comments
were lost. The old CPD compiler used tokenized p-code that wasn't too
difficult to decipher.
There was a minimum charge of $3,000 to perform the decompilation,
with most fees running in the $5,000 to $10,000 range. The service
was discontinued because of legal concerns over the ownership of
the code. In most cases it was more cost effective to pursue legal
action against the original programmer.
Also, most CPD apps were very generic and Model File generated with
little real programming involved. Therefore, the databases could
simply be imported into CW and regenerated as a Windows app.
Legitimate concerns over leagl matters lead to the agreed destruction
of the CPD decompiler. RIP.
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Randy Goodhew
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