The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

January 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

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.

Outand About (Con’t from page 1) classes, and its companion product, The Document Generator.

March 18, 1996, 7:30 PM - Sally Wong, Computer Resources Technology. Sally will be presenting a system modeling tool, FoxCase (distributed exclusively in the US by Neon Software), that enables developers to design and work through their system model, review their assumptions, identify redundant fields and relationships, produce a logic diagram (among others), etc., and then output to the VFP DBC. She’ll also be bringing a copy of the software to raffle off. (Only paid-up members will be eligible for the drawing.)

Since We Last Met.....

The annual LA Fox Christmas Party was a huge success. Bill Anderson and Chuck Williams demo’d some more features of the app they wrote for Stanford University. They spotlighted the report writer, which had massive SQL statements operating in the background. Surprise guests included Ellen Sander, co-author with Savannah Brentnall on Visualizing Visual FoxPro , and Jim Frayer, noted client-server specialist. The White Elephant Gift Exchange was a hoot. As always, 10th degree blackbelt streudel-meister George Dvorak, wow’d us with his culinary expertise. And finally, many thanks to the Christmas Committee for making the evening such a success.

Mailing List Cleanup. As announced at the November and December meetings, we will be gradually cleaning up the mailing/ membership list beginning this month. The cleanup 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 didn’t receive a newsletter this month. So everyone make sure you look at your mailing label for membership and please respond accordingly. Membership dues are $45, payable to LA Fox, and can be mailed to Allen Garfein, 3449 Beethoven, Los Angeles, CA 90066, or Barry R. Lee, P.O. Box 6624, Huntington Beach, CA

92615-6624, or brought to the next meeting. Dues help defray the cost of the meeting rooms, newsletters, speaker expenses, etc.

“LA Fox-Cast”. Also at the last meeting, newly-formatted attendance sheets were passed around. These sheets had a slightly different format in that they asked for on-line addresses. What I intend to do is to put these on-line addresses into a “broadcast group” on my CompuServe service, so that late-breaking announcements and news, or job opportunities (which may have grown “stale” by the time the newsletter gets in everyone’s hands), may be announced on a more “real-time” basis. So if you’d like to be part of the LA Fox-Cast, send your on-line/e-mail address to Barry R. Lee, CIS# 72723,3422, 72723.3422@compuserve.com, or

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