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Back around November, 1990 a number of us here on NANFORUM decided to
get together to create the "Nanforum Toolkit", a public domain, user
supported library of Clipper 5.0-compatible functions that many feel
should have been included in CLIPPER.LIB.  The idea received a lot of
popular support from other NANFORUM people, some third-party
developers, and Nantucket development and management.  This project,
however, is independent of any third party vendor or Nantucket.

You are welcome to participate.  In short, Clipper developers such as
yourself submit code to the librarian, who routes it to "referees" --
people who check it out. If all goes well, your code is added to the
library, and the library and complete documentation is made available
to anyone and everyone who can download it from CIS.  There are no
fees, dues, taxes, or any other form of compensation involved.  All
code must be in the public domain.

The current librarian is:    Glenn Scott  [CIS: 71620,1521]

If you want complete details on how the library works, download
NFRFC.ZIP from library 7.  This is our proposed standard, and will
also give you pointers on formatting your code for submission to the
library, should you decide to send code.  It will also describe other
ways you can help.  Special file header templates for your source
code can be found in NFHDRS.ZIP, also in library 7.  Both of these
files are updated from time to time.

Thanks for inquiring!