Windows 3.0 is now off my disk and

sitting down in the stacks in the basement

with the other, earlier versions of Win-

dows.

I’d much rather see the long promised

version of OS/2 that will let us run multi-

pie 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

than

640k to work with? -Wayne-

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 con-

cept)? It simply wouldn’t be an issue. The

problem is mixing Winapps with non-

winapps.

F m: Damon Gin bey 736 37,3555

T : Greg Dunn 3007,1 224

J st read in the J ulyissu of PCCom-

putii 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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