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How long would it take you
to do a Windows
version once you decided
on
it?
If it’s still in
the
consideration stage,
sounds like
we’re
talking a year from
now, at
best.
Fm: Walt Kennamer—Fox 74025,514
To:
Greg
Dunn 73007,1224 (X)
Hard for me to say. This is all hypothetical, of
course,
but I would think
it would
be several months at a minimum. I think we will do one evantually, but I am not going to
even hint
at a time frame.
Fm: Jay
Roberts
72571,647
To: Jeff Winchell
76066,533 (X)
...It is frustrating,
though, to
have
this environment
that works so
well and is
so powerful and
friendly, but
has
such a big hole in it
-
xbase
management. It’s got Word
for Windows, Excel,
Pagemaker,
drawing
programs...
everything
I need except a solid, fast
Foxpro.
...Anyway, using
these
Windows
apps
doesn’t
“make” me
work
better, but it sure _let’s_ me work better.
For a start,
I’m doing things people have done in Desqview
for years
I
never got
into
Desqview because
it was so
technically
intimidating to me,
but
I’m
doing these things
in Windows by
just doing
them
-
no esoteric tweaking (although I’m sure
that’ll
come). Plus
Windows
adds inter- program possibilities between Windows apps that Desqview couldn’t.
The
example
I gave earlier
is
still the most mind-blowing so far: Superbase 4
comes
with a WFW template that, on opening, finds
SB4,
starts it
if
it’s not running
already, opens
a name-and-address database, and inserts the name and address from the first record in the template’s letter. On Word’s menus, the template adds options to
skip
forward and backward in the database, change indexes, search
for a particular
record, etc.
These
capabilities have
powerful
application
for
my business and
users
to make their jobs easier and the computer more friendly and useful.
Fm:
Martin
Schlff 74405,1076
To: Anne E.
Pruitt
72335,777 (X)
You
can
run Windows 3.0
in
real mode with QEMM, or 386ttm, but not in
any
other mode (enhanced 386 or standard).
Fm: Mark Vodhanel
72456,463
To: Sonny Toblas 70741,1732 (X)
Sonny,
I’m certainly
not
speaking
for
Jay, but! find your question
an
interesting one since one of the
selling points
of FoxPro
has
been the
fact
that it is character based, and
will
thus be a faster performer.
Right now, I am of the opinion
that
a
WIN3
version of FoxPro would be a
bet-
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