[posted separately to comp.databases.xbase.fox and
microsoft.public.fox.programmers.exchange]

Hi. I am back. I have just about completed my diploma. I am
waiting for one final mark that I will be getting on Thursday.

I am back working for a certain employer on a certain client
billing system at least for a few months. There have been some
changes in the environment in my absence, and some things seem to be
totally the same. I have some questions:

1) Hentzenwerks looks to have gone even more into Fox books. (BTW,
who else publishes them?) A couple of titles caught my eye: "Build
Your Own Framework with Visual FoxPro" and "FoxTales: Behind the
Scenes at Fox Software". If you have them, what do you think about
them?

2) I recall reading something about problems (legal problems) with
running VFP on non-Windows operating systems. I did not see a
resolution to this. What ended up happening? I also heard something
about rather onerous licencing on later versions of VFP. What of
this? (I am using VFP 6.)

3) Checking my bookmarks revealed some apparently dead links: Les
Printer and dBASE 2000. Gone or elsewhere? What is the status of
xBASE alternatives to VFP?

4) Is there anything else of interest that I should know about and
do not know enough about to know to ask except in a complicated
question like this one? <G>

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.

On Mon, 03 May 2004 16:01:03 -0700, Gene Wirchenko <genew (AT) mail (DOT) ocis.net>
wrote:

Welcome back Gene.

Actually, no. He's moving away from it. See his open letter at:

http://www.hentzenwerke.com/indexwhymoving.html

Will got some flack from MS when he was going to deliver a talk on running
VFP on Linux. MS interprets the license to say that you can only run it on
Windows, and many of us interpret it differently. The words say that it "may
only run on windows". Define 'may'. I don't think it ever got resolved to
anyone's satisfaction.

As far as the licensing wording on VFP8, it seems clear that when you
install v8, you MUST UNINSTALL the version(s) from which you upgraded. If
it's not an upgrade, then there is no problem. Most of us think this is
stupid, but the wording is pretty clear.

Don't really know. Sorry.
Many of us are at least starting to play with .NET. I suggest you start
looking at it. You don't need to give up VFP (version 9 is coming soon), but
..NET seems to be MS's way of the future (for the present).

Alan

My real address is alan at sprint dot ca
(with a 'p' on 'alan' making it 'alanp',
and no spaces). I'm sick of email spam.

lemmebe (AT) frednwilma (DOT) com wrote:

Thank you.

[snip]

So I have since found out. I was going by the number of books.

I read the letter. It does not look good for VFP. I recognise
that that has been said for years, but numbers make a big difference.

[snip]

I have since found out:
Les Pinter's site is up. dBASE 2000 is now at
www.dbase.com.

My intake was the last or maybe the next to last to not cover
..NET.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Computerese Irregular Verb Conjugation:
I have preferences.
You have biases.
He/She has prejudices.

I tried returning him several times but he keeps on coming back.

a sig., a sig, my kingdom for a .sig.