The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

April 1994

LA Fox President’s Column (Con’t from p. 3)

Pinnacle Publishing has just completed publication of the second series of reports called The Pros Talk Fox, and is offering selected volumes at $29 each. These are excellent sources of information by first rate authors, and are well worth the price if the topic matches your interests. For example, Melissa Dunn’s report on SQL is one of the best treatments I have seen. I will have the list of topics at the User Meeting. You can order at

(800) 231-1293.

Mac Rubel, nationally known writer and speaker on FoxPro, has announced the availability of upgraded versions of his two packages of application development tools - Power Developers Library and Development Debugger. He is offering them at substantial discounts to user group members - $245 for the pair. I will have brochures at the user meeting. You can order direct from Mac at (212) 972-2330.

Neon Software is releasing the Windows version of FoxExpress with many improvements over the DOS version that Mike Feltman showed us in one of our earlier meetings. Contact Mike at Neon, (419) 843-2797, or on CompuServe - 76217,1043

- for more details.

XPro User Group News (Con't from page 1)

This is _real_ stuff that MSFT should be concerned about. Powersoft is beginning to play on and profit from this snafu and I shouldn’t think MSFT’s intention is to help build up one of their competitors. But, that is just what is happening.

To: Ken Levy 76350,2610 Ken,

.when do I use Access and when do I use FoxPro 2.5 - 2.6<<

If you noticed at the L.A. DevCast the Access app running on three 386/20 notebooks with Xircom Parallel Port ethernet adaptors and WFWG as the OS/NOS. It took between one and two minutes to find a single name for a pre-registered guest to DevCast. I suggested that FoxPro would have

been the better tool in that situation. The sales rep said, “But we wouldn’t have been as readily able to show Access.” I replied, “Exactly. Do you want people to see how slow Access (even 2.0) can be?” They replied, “Well, we didn’t want to spend so much time developing an app we are going to use only three or four times a year.” I replied again, “Depends on what’s more important, showing people how good your products are or showing them how they can be used innapropriately.”

That about sums up when and where one uses what.cg>

MEMORY REQUIREMENTS, FOR GOOD MEASURE

Just one last message about a subject that some FoxPro jockeys may not have already discovered the fine details for themselves.

To: Holly Henry Holly, For adequate performance, 4 Megs is ample (in most

cases) for FoxPro DOS. FoxPro Windows wants at least 4 Megs for itself and Windows wants some for itself (Win 3.1 wants at least I and Work Groups For Windows (WFWG) wants at least 2). Also, the Macintosh has memory needs very similar to WGFW. The situation you describe might best be handled by developing apps in DOS for the 4 Meg machines and then turn them into cross platform apps (DOS and Windows) so the Windows machines (those with 8+ Megs) can run Windows versions. Takes a little extra work but it can make you look like a genius. No fooling, I’ve had to learn to not automatically correct clients when they call me that. Now, I just say “Thank you” when they do.<g>

Books and Toys.... (Con't from page 7)

Remember, if you download any of these shareware files and decide they’re worth using, please support the author by registering the software. This not only helps defray the costs of his work-to-date, but encour ages him to keep enhancing the product.

We’ll be raffling off a “best of” shareware installation programs at tonight’s meeting. If you’re not lucky enough to win the disk, these programs take an average of 2.5 minutes to download at 9600 bps.

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