The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

April 1994

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

Pinnacle Publishing has just completed publica-

tion of the second series of reports called The

Pros Talk Fox, and is offering selected volumes at

$29 each. These are excellent sources of informa-

tion 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 applica-

tion development tools - Power Developers

Library and Development Debugger. He is offering

them at substantial discounts to user group mem-

bers - $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 con-

cerned 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.

Fm:

Randy Unruh

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.

Fm:

Randy Unruh

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 Macin-

tosh 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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