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I have memories of supporting a Netware network with a custom Foxpro app used by a bunch of telemarketers in the mid 90's.

When there was application error the source code would pop up in dialog maybe a some sort of debugger and the end users would just type a bunch of crap in trying to get out of it and hit enter and save the changes and corrupt the app for everyone and it would have to be restored from backup.

Pretty sure it was Foxpro or maybe dbase, definitely wasn't MS Access as it was still a dos based client.

Very different idea about app security back then, was really nice to developed the db, GUI front end and printable reports all in single runtime though.

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