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A Newsletter for
FoxPro
Application Developers in Southern California
October 1995
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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:
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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
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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.
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(Con’t, page
2)
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In this Issue.....
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Microsoft Mindshare On The Lighter Side
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