Is MSC8 MS C++? If so, didn't know it could do DOS apps. I know it can do Win32 console apps.
Quick history
Nantucket split off from Ashon Tate as they wanted to do a compiler rather than interpreter, their 5th version of Clipper was 5.01 got bought up by Computer Associates at some time
Summer 87, 5.01, 5.2 all written in MSC5, Clipper 5.3 written in MSC8.
To use extend API for C code you are best using the same compiler ie MSC5 (which is buggier than 
or MSC8.
MSC8 is part of VC1 and VC1.5, we use VC4 with Alaska Xbase++ and VC6 with Visual Objects.
All three are part of the XBASE family, other members were dBaseII/Vulcan, dBaseIII, dBaseIV, FoxBase, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro. All the dBase were pure interpreter, all Foxes souped up interpreters, and all Clippers PCode compilers (one of the best PCODE compilers ever according to a guru I know (John Skelton)), Nantuckets full compiler project was called Aspen and caused their purchase by CA, the Aspen project was merged with their windows project and became Visual Objects, after a few years it actually became usable.
Parallel tools were Blinker (their first project was ALINK) which became the most popular linker for Clipper, now on version 7, a reindexing engine written as an NLM became a client server engine called Advantage Xbase Server - originally only worked with Clipper, until a windows front end was brought in, now very popular in Delphi, Alaska, VO and of course Clipper circles - available on Netware, NT or Linux.
Clipper was a landmark product as the finest DOS database development system.
We have 4 different languages hitting our databases Via ADS (Xbase became Database)
BTW Visual Basic is horrid!
know history of clipper. I had assumed you were talking Visual C 8, not the original that was left unsupportted before my grandad was born.
Really should be using more up to date stuff now, as these tools are unsupportted, hence go unfixed.
Classic VB has its place, but again is on verge of being unsupported, hence should be dropped. VB.NET is a good language.
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