The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

February 1996

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

Barry R. Lee

714/375-3300

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

Randy. Unruh

310/399-9159

2210 Wilshire Blvd. -#161

Santa Monica, CA 90403

OC FoxPro Developers Group

Mike Vincent

714/282-1250

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opers Group, including subscription to The LA Fox

Developer Newsletter, is $45.

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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 ex-

change. We added England about a month ago, so we’ll be featur-

ing 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 newslet-

ter, “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 sur-

faced 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 micro-

chips 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 meet-

ings, we will be gradually cleaning up the maihng/membership list.

The cleanup schedule will be as follows:

January - Membership expires ‘93 or before.

February - Membership expires ‘94.

March - Membership expires ‘95.

As an example, if your membership expired in ‘93, chances are you

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