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Richard will give us the tools we need

to dig out a greater share of its value.

Be. there or be square!

Foxbase +/Mac

L.A. Fox is a user group for all

members of the Fox community-- not

just those on the IBM side. Charles

Williams, a local consultant who

practices Foxbase + fMac, has joined

our Steering Committee and will be

taking an active role in the planning

of our meetings and the setting of

direction for the group. Charles has

also agreed to present some of the

applications he has developed for

Foxbase+/Mac in an upcoming

meeting. Since FoxPro owes much of

its unique design to the work done by

Fox Software on Foxbase + fMac

and since Foxbase +/Mac remains a

showcase for design elements still in

FoxPro’s future presentations on

the Mac product should be of interest

even to those with no plans to develop

on that platform.

For Those Who Were

Techno-Bhtzed...

FoxPro is a powerful development

tool, and somewhat programmer-

oriented in spite of an incredibly rich

array of tools for interactive work.

For this reason the FoxPro group

quite naturally attracts sophisticated

programmers. Our May meeting un-

folded at a pretty high technical level,

which was altogether satisfactory to

most who attended. Still, a few folks

got left behind.

If you were one of them: let me

just say, on behalf of the board, that

we intend not to forget you. The Fox

Software user community spans the

enduser-to-programmer continuum

that’s the sort of products Foxbase

and FoxPro are and we hope to

address the entire Fox community.

We hope to do this not just because

we think it’s a nice thing to do, but

because we believe the diversity will

benefit everyone: new users trying to

take fuller advantage of the products;

business people looking for profes-

sional help; consultants looking for

clients; and professional developers

looking for the technological cutting

edge.

Easy For You to Say...

We not only have goals: we have a

plan. It’s a simple plan, designed for

evolution, and we’re open to sugges-

tions. But a plan it is. And here it is:

We plan to design each meeting so

that it has two distinct sections. The

first section will emphasize inspira-

tional and motivational presenta-

tions. No, I don’t mean that we will

be urging you to enter the

foreclosures market, or showing you

how to make big money tracking

down the owners of lost bank ac-

counts for the state of California.

What we’re looking for is more of a

presentation syle than any particular

kind of content. We want you

developers to show us the applica-

tions you’ve built. Expose us to the

business (educational? entertain-

ment?) needs you’ve addressed using

Foxbase and FoxPro. Vendor

presentations, unless of highly tech-

nical add-on products, will probably

go in this half of the meeting.

The second half of the meeting

will be targeted explicitly for

developers. This part of the meeting

will focus on technical topics, and will

include presentations of hair-raising

code, and no-holds-barred question

and answer sessions.

In some cases the presenter for

both halves of the meeting maybe the

same person as will be the case in

our June meeting featuring Richard

Grossman. The first half ofthe meet-

ing will explore ProDemo as an ap-

plication. The second half will take it

apart as a piece of sophisticated

code.

I mentioned that a break will

separate the first and second halves

of the meeting. This break will be of

healthy duration, and will be express-

ly designed to fa.ilitate the network-

ing which for most of you will be the

primary benefit of the group. See you

there!

RIGHT WAY

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Yellow Pages

[Free to L.A. Fox members.]

D-I-S-C (Discovery Informa-

tion Systems Company), George

Dvorak (213) 539-2704. Ac-

countmate, SBT modifications,

custom LAN applications,

hardware and technical support.

Torrance

Charles Williams, Macintosh

Consultant, (213) 539-9439.

Macintosh Expertise + Manage-

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applications. Harbor City.

Gay Dunn Graphic Design

(213) 371-6035. Graphic design

and desktop publishing. Newslet-

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Redondo Beach.

Greg Dunn Computer Consult-

ing (213) 371-6035. DOS,

dBaseffl, and FoxPro training;

FoxPro and Clipper applications;

Telemagic sales and support;

demo diskette development.

Redondo Beach.

KD Associates, Kris Dahlln,

(213) 396-5632. FoxPro and

generalPC consulting. Legal and

barcode applications, legal time

and billing package, contact

management package. Mar Vista.

Unruh Consulting, Randy

Unruh (213) 390-8039. FoxPro

and Clipper applications consult-

ing. Santa Monica.

22939 Hawthorne Boulevard

Suite 210

Torrance, CA 90505

(213) 375-2005

L.A. FOX