LA. Fox

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Volunteers Needed:

FoxPro/Foxbase Articles

Editor, and Steering

Committee Members

There is a special need at this

time for additional volunteers to

help run the group. The start-up

work has been done, and thanks

to Edison, the difficult problem

of securing a meeting place and

audio/visual equipment without

bankrupting the treasury is

handled. Nevertheless, there are

many needs yet unmet within the

group, as well as the ongoing

task of planning and facilitating

meetings.

The Steering Committee for

LA. Fox meets once per month,

generally on the Tuesday follow-

ing the main user group meeting.

We have a good time, complete

with pizza, or perhaps other

more exotic cuisine in the future.

(At the last meeting I took a poll

to see if we might try something

else, and was pleased to discover

that the committee is quite

international in the proclivities

of its collective palate.) A good

time is had by all, and it’s a great

way to get to know your profes-

sional peers.

Would You Believe the Third

Tuesday of Every Month?

We’ve promised to try to get

meetings back to Tuesdays, and

so we do as of this month.

However, in order to coordinate

our scheduling with the timing of

the DLaP newsletter, we will

need to meet on the third (rather

than second) Tuesday of each

month. I promise to sit on the

tailfin of the Spruce Goose for

forty hours during a rainstorm if

there are any further changes in

our meeting schedule.

Where to Park for the

Meeting

Edison is graciously providing

parking for our group in a lot

under its building. The entrance

to this lot is off 1st Street, just

after you turn east on it from

Long Beach Boulevard.

Call for Presenters and

Authors

If you’re interested in being a

presenter at one of our group

meetings, please contact me

(Greg Dunn), Charles Williams,

or one of the other steering

committee members. We’d like

to see a demo of your vertical

market Foxbase or FoxPro

application; a discussion of how

you handled a particular techni-

cal problem; or other things that

would be of interest to members.

There’s no better way to market

your skills and/or products, and

you can have a lot of fun in the

process!

We’d also like your article for the

newsletter. If you have an idea,

but aren’t sure just how to

approach it or whether it would

be of interest, give me a call and

let’s discuss it! Articles will reach

our growing mailing list for the

Fox group, and we plan to

contact other Fox User groups

around the country to share

articles. Share your expertise

with the world!

- Greg Dunn

dClip 2.5 To use

or not to use?

Reviewed by Robert Kantor

Have you ever considered the

number of hours wasted, sitting

in front of a computer, waiting

on the compiling/linking phases

of application development?

Does linking a program ever

seem to consume more time than

running it?

If your answers to these ques-

tions are in the affirmative,

dClip, an application from

Donnay Software Designs, may

be what you’ve been looking for.

The key advantage of this

program is the elimination of

long edit, compilation and link

cycles.

Upon starting dClip, you enter

an environment much like that

of dBase ffi+’s dot prompt

interface. Any command ac-

cepted by Clipper, Summer ‘87

version, can be immediately

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Full Product Information

dClip 2.5

(Note The review was performed on a

beta version . beta6 . of dClip 2.5)

Available from:

Donnay Software Designs

1880 Park Newport,

Suite 104A

Newport Beach, CA 92660

Phone:

(714) 721-6720

Fax:

(714) 721-9495

Cost:

$249.95 Manual,

Developer’s Engine,

Runtime Engine

$150.00 Licensing

Fee for Distribution

of Runtime Engine

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