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A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application Developers in Southern California
November 1995
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Guest Editorial....
A long, long time ago, I am told, computer input came in the form of punched cards. One key punch operator would type from a source document causing small slots to be punched in to paper cards the size of a dollar bill. The cards were passed to a second operator
who
would
,
then type the same information on a machine called a verifier. If the key pressed by the verifier was different from that previously punched into the card a bell would sound. Some operations even had a second verifier process. Next the cards were read into the computer and further checked. If errors were detected, they were listed on a error report. Many programs would refuse to process any of the information further until all of the cards being read were error free or at least all of the cards that were some how related, were error free. A lot of hours were spent in trying to insure the integrity of the data.
Now we flash to the present. I recently received a download from a state agency. The agency assigned a unique identifier to each of the parties involved in a legal action. I though I would
try
to normalize the data and eliminate redundant entries. I noticed that some of the parties were entered twice, then some three times and one ten times, each with a different unique identifier. Some were entered with different abbreviations in the name and others were identical. Some one at the agency thought that they were all different parties.
After doing a mailing to some of the parties, we received a phone call asking how we had associated a particular company with the address on the envelope. It seems that this agency had entered a
In this issue...
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Engineering Services, LLC (MES)
has been developing custom
FoxPro
applications for clients all over Southern California, as well as other parts of the country, during the last several years.
MES
specializes in system analysis/design, custom software systems
written
in
FoxPro,
third-party add-in products, and quality/productivity improvement. On this night,
MES
will be demonstrating tips and techniques developed for applications running at several client sites, as well as discussing user interface issues, system design, design tools,
RAD
and other development issues.
December
19,
1995, 7:30 PM
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The Annual LA
Fox
Christmas
Party.
Last year, we were very fortunate to be treated to one of the first previews of Visual FoxPro.
Who
knows what surprises await us this year? One sure thing will be George Dvorak’s delightful treats that never disappoint. Plan for an evening of fun and friendship. (See want ad elsewhere in this newsletter.)
January 15, 1996, 7:30 PM
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Panel/Open Discussion
on Marketing and Client Relations.
Due to a recent
interest in this topic, we’re looking for a group of about
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Out and About
by Barry R. Lee
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The November meeting of LA Fox will be held on Nov. 20, 1995, at 7:30 PM at our regular meeting place (the Torrance Airport, 3301 Airport Drive, in Torrance). For details on how to get there, see the map on the back page.
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