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Windows 3.0 is now off my
disk and
sitting down in the stacks
in the basement
with the other, earlier
versions
of Windows.
I’d much rather
see
the long promised version of OS/2
that
will let us
run
multipie sessions, etc. and a version of FoxPRO for that platform. But if
wishes
were
dollars
we’d all be billionaires. g
Fm: Wayne Reynolds 76424,2707
To: Pat Adams 75146,3121 (X)
Talk about perfect
timing!!
I just got done installing
Windows
3.0 and
was poking
around
in
the manual to
see
how
much memory
Windows can give FoxPro
to
run
when I
started
reading this thread. Is there really NO
way
to
run FoxPro
from
within
Windows
and
give
it more
Repty
19682
Fm: Pat
Adams
75146,3121
To: Wayne Reynolds 76424,2707
You can’t even give it 640k.
Windows
3.0 will only let each
window be as
large
as
the amount of
640k
DOS
that remains
afteryou
have booted
your computer and loaded all the “necessities.” By the time memory required
for
DOS
itself various
drivers, etc. has
been grabbed
you will have much
less
than
640k left since you
can’t
use
QEMM
and
LOAD HI
if you
are going to
run Windows
3.0.
Fm: Damon Glnbey 73637,3555
To:
Greg
Dunn
73007,1224 (X)
Greg
I
don’t
think you
will
find much opposition to GUI’s here,
since
I
assume
that’s why
most
of us
chose FP over some dot-prompt xBase platform.
Of course there will
always be people
who are much more comfortable at the c prompt than with
icons
(and some who
will always use
Wordstar). Most people, however,
are
just more
productive
with pictures. Like
painting
a screen
with a mouse versus
coding
SAY
GETS.
No contest.
I know Pat and others are upset about Windows 3.0 and QEMM/LOADHI, but that would not be a problem
if FP
were a Winapp.
Who
would care about preserving
640K
(what a prehistoric concept)? It simply wouldn’t
be
an issue. The problem
is mixing Winapps
with nonwinapps.
F
m:
Damon Gin
bey 736 37,3555
T
:
Greg
Dunn 3007,1 224
J st
read
in the J
ulyissu
of
PCComputii g that
dBFast Windo
is
allows you to
n
compile
existin g dBas applications so
th ey will run in windo
i
unchanged,
plus you
can mcx
ify the
m
to include stan lard Window inter ace
controls
suct as checkbox
s
but ons, pop-up men is, and multi
ple
win lows.
Sound
fami iar?
LA. FOX
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