Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
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Re: Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
#2Wow...this brought back some memories of supporting FoxPro and dBASE users back in the day!
I always wondered, back then...if these people were really so strangely amazing with their DB front-ends, why not get a CS degree? Or study IT like us pros who were helping troubleshoot? (They were educated, but in strange-to-us areas like accounting)
Now I look back and wish I had spent more time listening to their stories and hearing about favorite experiences in putting their own tools together, and less time blaming their software for weird stuff. ;-) We had an office full of cards. From OS/2 guys to proprietary database people, from hardcore WordPerfect fans (Corel what...!?) to the Mac folks one building over, and their interesting networking issues...on top of our Novell network...oh and by the way, there's a cash register attached to a computer in building such-and-such, that makes it our job to fix, right? (Fixed register drawer with an excess amount of grease I found in an old toolbox; call boss with questions)
Re: Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
#3Knew a guy who published a technical book, bigger than a phone book, and he wrote it all in FoxPro and that was 2010.
Re: Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
#4FoxPro 2.x was absolutely amazing. Incredibly fast, easy to develop with once you understood how it worked. And portable - 2.5 had a version that ran on SCO Unix.
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#5Knew a guy who published a technical book, bigger than a phone book, and he wrote it all in FoxPro and that was 2010.
Epic! There's really something about knowing even an old tool inside out, and being able to do amazing things with it.
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#6Knew a guy who published a technical book, bigger than a phone book, and he wrote it all in FoxPro and that was 2010.
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Re: Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
#7Ahhh... My father make some software on Clipper and later on FoxPro to manage a small shop of a friend, and to manage the TV/Electronics repair shop where he was working.
Re: Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
#8Microsoft was evil back then and killed off foxpro
Re: Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
#9Wow...this brought back some memories of supporting FoxPro and dBASE users back in the day! I always wondered, back then...if these people were really so strangely amazing with their DB front-ends, why not get a CS degree? Or study IT like us pros who were helping troubleshoot? (They were educated, but in strange-to-us areas like accounting) Now I look back and wish I had spent more time listening to their stories an…
I do think there's a lost appreciation for those who aren't "pure technologists". My father-in-law was a draftsman, who was tasked with eventually getting up to speed with CAD. His knack for it led to him having responsibility for installing and teaching others, and eventually led to him working in general IT at places like Schlumberger.
Re: Microsoft's FoxPro 2.5 Is Fast and Easy to Use (1993)
#10Knew a guy who published a technical book, bigger than a phone book, and he wrote it all in FoxPro and that was 2010.
I have a bit of experience with older verdions of DBase and Clipper and I find this extremely odd.
Can you give us a bit more details? I am genuinely curious: maybe Foxpro had some fancy reporting capabilities that made it more feasible but the only type of "book" I could imagine writing with such a tool is some sort of catalog.
I.e. each product has a page (maybe with part number, pictures and price, description, maybe standardized product templates with weight, color etc.) ... then each page is a record or collection of records... and then you somehow spit out a massive pdf to send to the printers?