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The
LA Fox Developer Newsletter
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February 1996
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The LA Fox Developer
is the monthly newsletter of the LA Fox
Developers
Group. The purpose is information sharing among application developers and users working with
FoxPro.
LA Fox Address
LA Fox
P.O. Box 6624
Huntington Beach, CA 92615-6624
LA Fox Board of Directors
Barry R. Lee, President/Newsletter Editor
Bill Anderson, Vice President
Allen Garfein, Treasurer/Membership
Chuck Williams, President Emeritus
George Dvorak
Bill Seldon
Mike Cummings
LA Fox is the oldest FoxPro developer’s group in Southern California. The newsletter contains regular columns and articles from other user groups.
XPro User Group
2210 Wilshire Blvd. -#161
Santa Monica, CA 90403
OC FoxPro Developers Group
Membership/Subscription
The annual membership fee for the LA Fox Developers Group, including subscription to The LA Fox Developer Newsletter, is $45.
Disclaimer
Neither the LA Fox User Group, the XPro User Group, the OC FoxPro Developers Group, their officers or board of directors or their members make any express or implied warranties of any kind with regard to any information disseminated, including, but not limited to, warranties of merchantability and! or fitness for a particular purpose.
Opinions provided by newsletter articles, or by speakers, members, or guests who address the meetings, are individual opinions only, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of the group.
All
opinions and information should be carefully considered, and the group is not liable for any incident or consequential damages in connection with, or arising out of, the furnishing or use of any information or opinions. Brand names and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
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Out and About
(Con?
from
page 1)
completion,
VFP
was announced. So he abandoned the
Windows product, fully-embracing
VFP. What you’re going to see this night is one part magic, one part cleverness, and four parts hard work.
Since We Last Met....
This issue of the
LA Developer
marks the
first
time we “go interna
tional”. If you’ve
been following along during the last several months, you know we’ve
been
making alliances with other FoxPro developer groups across the U.S. for a national newsletter exchange. We added England about a month ago, so we’ll be featuring regular columns from there as well, beginning with this issue. Nothing about Di and
Charles, though,
so
you’ll still have to go to the supermarket for that. This month we feature an article by Anela Pomerance, the editor of the quarterly-published UK Fox newsletter, “Fox User”. The article addresses some of the more basic aspects of FoxPro and should answer a few questions some of the newer, less-experienced members of our group might be hesitant to ask. Also in this issue, are articles contributed by writers from the Rocky Mountain, Detroit, and Potomac Area Fox groups, as well as LA Fox member, Michael Meer.
The warning about the “Good Times” virus has once again surfaced on the Internet. For those of you that aren’t familiar with this warning, it apparently surfaces from time to time, telling the tale of a very virulent thing that trashes your hard drive and passes it on to other PCs through e-mail systems. The bottom line is
it’s a hoax.
Yours truly was taken in by the warning and immediately posted it to all the members of LA Fox-Cast, only to be embarrassed by return mail from a few people, from Tom Rettig to Ken Levy, straightening me out.
Feedback.
We’re always looking for feedback on this group. Sort of like the “How am
I
driving?” signs you see on the back of those trucks tooling down the highway. So let any of the board members know at any of our meetings.
Happy 50th. February
14th, 1996, marks the 50th birthday of
modern computing as we know
it.
Hard to believe that 4
microchips
in today’s boxes
surpass
the processing power of the 50-ton ENIAC back then. I guess what I
find so ironic about the selection
of that date, Valentine’s Day, is the vast numbers of computer
“widows/widowers” out
there that this technology has spawned.
Mailing List Cleanup. As
announced
at the
previous three
meetings, we will be gradually cleaning up the maihng/membership list. The cleanup schedule will be as follows:
January
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Membership expires ‘93 or before.
February
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Membership expires
‘94.
March
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Membership expires ‘95.
As an example,
if
your membership expired
in
‘93, chances
are you
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