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I have also been searching for a CD-ROM database engine for Clipper. I have been playing with an evaluation copy of Nimbus's ROMWARE. It requires you to load a TSR database server which uses up about 120K. You also need to write a few "C" functions to interface with the server. Your data is not stored on the CD-ROM in DBF format. It is converted to Romwares database format. I like the product as you can index each field as an entire field or using each word to give you great word lists. However you need to look very carefully at the memory requirements. We are at present planning on using Romware. Memory requirements may force us to access the Romware server using "C" or Pascal or any language not require as much as clipper needs. Let me know if you come across any other solutions or if you do go with romware, I can give you the source for the "C" functions you call from clipper. I would prefer to find a stand-alone clipper library utilizing RDD's and Royalty free. We currently produce one-offs and have found using dbase to be too slow for most applications.