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Boardroom Notes...
LA Fox Board Meets
by Barry R. Lee
(Ed. Note: The LA Fox Board of Directors met on Thursday,
Dec. 4th, 1997, at Denny’s on PCH. The Board is strictly a
volunteer organiz ation responsible for policies and general
direction of LA Fox. The Board meets 2-3 times per year and
any current member (paid-up) may attend and/or volunteer their
services to be on the Board. What follows is the outcome of
that meeting.]

Membership Period/Payment of Dues
1.
Effective January 1, 1998, annual dues to LA Fox will be $48.
These membership fees will become due and payable from
member of the group at the January meeting, rather than the
past practice of renewing membership during the “anniversary”
month of membership. If you won’t be able to attend the
January meeting, and wish to remain a member-in-good-
standing, you should mail your dues to Twila Miller, 1601 North
Sepulveda Blvd. -#191, Manhattan Beach, CA, 90266. (The
membership fees cover the cost of the meeting room at the
Torrance Airport - which nas doubled in the last year, the cost of
publishing the newsletter - which has increased over 30% in the
last year, transportation and/or lodging for any of our guest
speakers who travel to Los Angeles to speak to the group, as
well as other miscellaneous expenses incurred in running the
group.)

2.
The membership period will cover from January 1 to Decem-
ber 31 of the current year.

3.
If a person joins LA Fox after January 1, that person’s dues
will be pro-rated based on when in the year the person joins. In
other words, if a person joins in July of 1998, the amount of the
dueswould be 1/2 of regularmembership, or$24. Afterthat,
the person’s dues would become payable on January 1 of the
following year.

4.
If a person joined LA Fox during 1997, that person’s dues for
1998 will also be due and payable at the January meeting on a
pro-rated basis depending on when in the year the person
joined. (For example, if a person joined the group in October of
1997, the total amount due at the January ‘98 meeting would be
(Con't, page 3)
December 15, 1997,7:30 PM - Annual LA Fox Christmas
Party. It’s coming up on that time of the year again. We’ll be
having a White Elephant Gift Exchange again this year. As
always, there’ll be plenty of tasty treats along with good cheer
and fellowship. And a special guest. For complete details,
except for the special guest, see the article on page 9.

January 19, 1998, 7:30 PM Les Pinter. While working on a
Ph.D. in economics at Rice University in Houston, Texas, Les
joined with two high-school friends to develop the Magic Wand,
one of the first word processing programs for microcomputers.
In 1990 he sold the source code to Microsoft, which used it in
the development of Microsoft Word. During the development of a
dBase Ill application for LucasFilm, Les discovered that
FoxBase ran his applications 7 times faster, and was
immedately hooked on Fox. He began The Pinter FoxPro Letter,
(now in its eighth year) a newsletter published both in the US
and in Moscow (a Russian language edition).Les has written 6
books on programming in FoxPro for McGraw-Hill. He is a
Contributing Editor for Point DBF, the French data base maga-
zine, a technical editor for IDG books, and writes “The Cutting
Edge” column for FoxTalk. His consulting practise in California
includes both corporate customers and firms that market
applications written in FoxPro. He gives in-house seminars in
English, French, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. Les is a
private pilot, and once played lead guitar in the road band for
Jerry Lee Lewis. [Sorry. ..just had to stick that it in, Les!]

February 16, 1998, 7:30 PM - Jonathan Melvin. Jon’s topic
for the evening will be “Creating and Operating an Enterprise
(Con’t, page 2)
The LA Fox Developer
A Newsletter for FoxPro Application Developers in Southern California
Visit our WebSite at: http://www.mesllc.com/lafox.html
December 1997
Out and About
by Barry R. Lee
The December meeting of LA Fox will be
held on Dec.15, 1997, at 7:30 PM at our regu-
lar meeting place (the Torrance Airport, 3301
Airport Drive, in Torrance). For details on
how to get there, see the map on the back
page.
At LA Fox
In this issue
The 12 Bugs of Christmas
Visual Time and Effort
Character Dates in Any Format
Leap Year Code
Page 4
Page 5
Page 7
Page 8
and much more

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