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

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

Larry McQuerrey

714/639-3318

Membership/Subscription

The annual membership fee for the LA Fox Devel-

opers 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 consid-

ered, 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 informa-

tion 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 back-

ground. 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 De-

cember 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 atten-

dance 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 an-

nouncements 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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