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The LA Fox Developer Newsletter
September 1997
The Universal Thread
Partnership Program Kicks Off
The Universal Thread Partnership Program is intended to promote 3rd party products by offering Universal Thread members a discount on a product and a bigger discount for members having a Premier Universal Thread Membership.

From the Visual FoxPro forum, you can click on the light icon to access the list of vendors. That list will list the basic information about the product and discount. From that list, you can access the full Classified Software & Products detail of that product.

A link has been added from the Universal Thread main page “Universal Thread Partnership Program” which will give you all the information about what’s involved for a company being part of it. You will also find a general list of all active vendors.

You may find the Universal Thread at http:/I www.universalthread.com.


Visual Foxpro Assistance
on the Web
By Tom Norman, Rocky Mountain Fox User Group
Have you ever been stuck with a problem while programming? You try to find the answer in the Microsoft manuals but you can’t. You look in all the reference books you have and you still can’t find the answer. Next you go online via CompuServe and you post your problem there hoping someone has encountered and solved the problem you are now facing. Do you know you can also get your solutions from the Web?

The web has a host of news groups and web sites to assist you with your problems. Spending about thirty minutes of your day reading others peoples’ problems and solutions might help you to avoid some problems. This is a great way for you to learn and avoid the problems others have solved.

You have two types of resources on the Web. One is the newsgroup and the other is the web page. I have found both areas full of information. Below is a partial list of the newsgroups and websites that I try to read each week. Newsgroups, which have an asterisk, have the most activity and are frequented by Lisa Slater, Dan Freeman and other knowledgeable Foxpro users.

Newsgroups
*comp databases xbase fox
*microsoft.publicfoxprogrammer.exchange
microsoft.public.fox.books
microsoft. public.fox.intemet

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Special Big Announce ment
The LA Fox Developer’s Group has entered into an agreement with Macmillan Computer Publishing. LA Fox members can now purchase all Macmillan Computer Publishing titles at a discount of 30% off retail pricing.

Macmillan owns the following publishers:
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Que
New Riders Press
The Waite Group
Ziff-Davis
Sams/sams.net
Que Education & Training
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Macmillan Technical Publishing
Hayden
Adobe Press
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Borland Press
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Lycos Press
With all these publishers and over 40% market share, Macmillan has the best books for computer technology.

To take advantage of this offer, you must be a member-in-good- standing (read current and paid-up) and have a credit card. You can receive our special account number and the 800 access number by calling me at 800/499-6237 or 714/375-3300, ore- mailing me at CompuServe (72723,3422) or brlee@earthlink.net.


Job Posting
Galaxy Systems and Resources has an opening for 2 full time, non-contract positions in the Santa Fe Springs, California area.

1. Maintenance Programmer: for an existing Foxpro 2.6 DOS
Accounting and Inventory Control application with transition to
Maintenance of the VFP 3.0 system mentioned below.
Requirements:
3 years Foxpro for DOS experience
Salary: DOE
Location:
On site
2. Application Developer: to help convert the above application to VFP 3.0.
Requirements:
Same as above plus minimum 1 year
VFP 3.0 or 5.0 experience
Salary: DOE
Location:
On site
Resume’s to BarryJ. Taft e-mail 104632.46@compuserve.com or call 562.946.4774.202
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