The LA Fox Developer Newsletter

August 1997

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/Programs

Twila Miller, Treasurer/Membership

Chuck Williams, President Emeritus

George Dvorak

Bill Seldon

Mike Cummings

Michael Meer

George Porter

LA Fox is the oldest FoxPro developer’s group in

Southern California. The newsletter contains regular

columns as well as articles from other user groups.

XPro User Group

Randy Unruh

310/399-9159

2210 Wilshire Blvd. -#161

Santa Monica, CA 90403

uC FoxPro Developers Group

Mike Vincent

(714)970-9147

Membership/Subscription

The annual membership fee for the LA Fox Develop-

ers 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

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but not limited to, warranties of merchantability and!

or fitness for a particular purpose.

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ered, and the group is not liable for any incident or

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tive owners.

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Out and About (Con’t from Page 1)

annual gathering of FoxPro developers from around the world. This is where

you can gather with the best in the industry, members of the Microsoft

Visual FoxPro product team, and developers from around the world to learn

how to solve your programming puzzles. Find out how to get it done with

Visual FoxPro and the Microsoft Visual Tools. This year’s DEVCON is co-

sponsored by Advisor Publications, publisher of the magazines for using

FoxPro, database, client-server and Internet technology to build business

solutions. Cost of the conference is $1095. For more details, call 800/368-

3204, or visit http://www.advisor.com.

September 22-26, 1997. MicroEndeavors is coming to LA with their five-

day, hands-on Accelerated Application Development class --VFO5. Sept

29-30 we will also offer a two day client server class - VFO7. For complete

course outlines visit them at http:/www.microendeavors.com otherwise

please email any response.

November 17-21, 1997. Comdex ‘97, the big daddy of all computer trade

conferences, convenes in Las Vegas. The convention pulled in about

250,000 people last year, clogged up all the phone lines, and filled every

hotel in the area. If you’re going, you’d better start planning now.

Since We Last Met

To the Victor Go the Spoils. Well, it had to happen someday. Apple

Corp., awash in just about every kind of trouble imaginable from financial

problems to executives jumping ship, has been temporarily bailed out by

Microsoft Corp., thus ending the “platform wars” between Apple loyalists

and MStechies. Announced Wednesday, August6, 1997, duringthe

MacWorld Expo in Boston, the news of the $150 million infusion from

Microsoft brought shudders from some quarters. Microsoft, the largest

supplier of software for the Mac, stands to gain the most from the deal

since its Internet Explorer will now come bundled in the machines.

Microsoft also announced completion of the WebTV acquisition, further

entrenching itself in Internet applications. So, by my guess, the real loser

in this whole deal has to be Netscape.

On another front, here are some findings from research into bad smells,

according to the Olfactory Research Fund:

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Our sense of smell is fully developed at birth.

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Subjects exposed to an unpleasant odor while taking a creativity test

did worse than those breathing a pleasant fragrance.

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People smelling a pleasant scent recalled more happy memories than

did people exposed to a bad smell.

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Patients reported more symptoms of illness while exposed to a rotten-

vegetable odor than in the presence of a lemon fragrance.

(Ed. Note: I wonder who paid for this revealing study DUHHHHH!!!!)

(Con’t, page 8)

Help Wanted...

Microcomputer Engineering Services, LLC, is looking for people proficient

in FPW 2.6 with some basic knowledge of VFP. Excellent working

conditions with a chance to be in on the latest FoxPro-related tech nolo-

gies. Need someone capable of “hitting the bricks running”. Call Mike

Meer or Barry R. Lee, 800/499-6237, or e-mail us at brlee@earthlink.net.

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