The LA Fox Developer

A Newsletter for FoxPro Application Developers in Southern California

August 1995

LA Fox President’s Column

by Chuck Williams

The July Meeting - Voysys

After several months of listening to gurus, our July

meeting shifted instead to a vendor presentation

and it was a great one. Gene Moran opened a lot

of minds with his presentation and demo of Voysys

IVR (interactive voice response) capabilities.

Although interaction with IVR systems has become

a very common experience in recent times, it had

not entered my mind that this was something that

could be part of a FoxPro application, much less

that practical technology is available right now.

This is not a new kind of modem, not a file transfer

technique, and not an alternative to PC Anywhere.

The basic idea is that a touch tone phone be-

comes an access device for your database. Your

application can answer the phone, receive a query,

and return the results of a search verbahy - that is,

it can actually “speaks a numerical result in terms

appropriate to the datatype such as currency,

date, numeric, etc. All this is made possible by the

Voysys toolkit Which consists of a telephone card

for the PC, some switches and line drivers, and a

library of very simple and intuitive FoxPro func-

tions. With this you could implement an order

status system, a work schedule advisor, or.a voice

mail system - in fact he did just that right in the

meeting. If you think about it for awhile the oppor-

tunity ideas will start to flow. Gene demonstrated

dearly that the product delivers a high quality

result, is very flexible, is not hard to implement,

and is not very expensive.

The price is well within the small business range -

a thousand dollars, rather than the 25K$ to I OOK$

that the big banks have paid in the not too distant

(Con't, page 2)

Out and About

by Barry R. Lee

Beginning in August, by popular request, we’ll be

spothghting applications and techniques by members

of our own group, as well as having key speakers

August 21, 1995, 7:30 PM - Bill Anderson/Chuck

Williams. Bill and Chuck will discuss their experi-

ences in both building and managing the SITN Regis-

tradon System. This program (wntten with FoxPro for

the Macintosh) replaces a manual system used to

track all aspects pertaining to televised courses held at

Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

September 18, 1995, 7:30 PM - Lee Pinter. Les is

well known in the FoxPro community for his knowledge

and his wit. Ho has published a long standing, regular

newsletter, The Pinter FoxPro Letter, is a regular

columnist for Pinnacle’s Fox Talk newsletter, and has

appeared in many other national publications and

conferences. In this return to LA Fox, he’ll be speak-

ing to us about designing and building class libraries in

VFP. This should be a fun meeting - don’t miss it.

October 16, 1995, 7:30 PM - Savannah Brentnall.

Savannah Brentnall is an independent consultant

specializing in object orientation and is a founding

partner of the Visual Training Group, which specializes

in object technology training. Savannah and her

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The August meeting of LA Fox will be held on Aug.

21, 1995, at 7:30 PM at our regular meeting place

(the Torrance Airport, 3301 Airport Drive, in Tor-

rance). For details on how to get there, see the

map on the back page.

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