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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
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June
1997
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The L.A 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/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 and
articles from other user groups.
XPro User Group
2210 Wilshire Blvd.
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#161
Santa Monica, CA 90403
OC FoxPro Developers Group
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Out and About
(Con’t from Page 1)
excellent evening of tips and tricks at our last meeting, as well as a little bit of humor. By popular request, here is the “Top 10” list:
Top Ten Things That Would Be Different if Microsoft
10. New seats would force everyone to have the same-size buff.
[Ed. Note: Just to let
Drew
off
the
hook here, and to avoid any detrimental
publicity
for him, the same list was forwarded to me from another indWidual living in New York. <g>J
Since We Last Met
Bill Gates donated $1
million to the District of Columbia library system,
which is so financially strapped that
patrons have been asked to donate magazines and books. The gift will allow the library system to set up computer centers in all 26 branches, The donation is one of the largest of a $17 million Libraries Online initiative launched by Microsoft. The program is now in 45 library systems in the United States and Canada.
U.S. Robotics said it plans to run field tests of its cable modem technology with two cable TV systems in Indianapolis and St. Louis. U.S. Robotics’ system allows computer users to receive data from the Internet over their
cable TV lines and send data back
to the Internet via telephone lines. Initial
test base will be 230,000.
Computer industry captains called on
President
Clinton
to drop efforts to
(Con’t, page
5)
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 technologies. Need
someone capable
of “hitting the bricks running”. Call Mike Meer or Barry
R. Lee, 800/499-6237, or e-mail
us at
brlee@mesllc.com.
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