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The LA Fox Developer
A Newsletter for FoxPro Application Developers in Southern California October 1995
I’ve Bought Visual FoxPro -
Now What?
By Whil Hentzen

1. Don’t install VFP under a directory called “VFP” or VISUALFP” or something like that. You can bet we’ll be seeing a maintenance upgrade in the next few months, and now you’ll either haveto install a second directory called VFPa or get rid of the
original version and install on top of it.

When you consider that you’ve probably already got a few versions of FoxPro floating around, this gets confusing. Try this instead:

Create a single directory called something like
“FP.” I put this right next to my WINNT32 directory, because they’re equally important to me.

Under the FP directory, create directories for each version of FoxPro. This way, you’d have a directory structure like so:
Out and About
by Barry R. Lee


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 company have recently joined forces with Flash Creative Management to offer VTG’s two-day course on object orientation to FoxPro audiences. She has spoken at conferences and user groups around the world and has programmed in Xbase since 1984.

It is only fitting that Savannah is speaking at October's meeting. It was just about two years ago, come October, that she spoke on object orientation, at an LA Fox meeting, and everyone thought, ‘Well, that’s nice and everything, but how does it apply to me?” My, how times have changed!

November 20, 1995, 7:30 PM - Microcomputer Engineering Services, LLC (MES). Microcomputer Engineering Seivices, 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,
(Con’t, page 5)

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The October meeting of LA Fox will be held on Oct.16, 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.
(Con’t, page 2)
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