THE FoxPRO FAQ
PART 2a: SOURCES - ELECTRONIC & JOURNALS
Please email me if you find any of the links have dropped out
or no longer work, thanks. Gordon.
Comment and suggestions are invited.
GENERAL
The FoxPro manuals.
They have excellent indices if you don't know exactly which page to
look on.
The manuals are also on-line in all versions of FoxPro on every platform,
and are organized by topic with links between related topics.
Many of your questions can be answered right in the manuals (surprise,
surprise!).
However, the manuals are not always clear, and many parts are difficult
even for experienced FoxPro users, so if you aren't able to find your
answer in the manuals, please use the newsgroup!
The Frequently Asked Questions list (This FAQ)
This document contains answers to most of the questions that come up
more than a few times here, or are considered to be of general inter-
est to FoxPro users. The FoxPro FAQ is posted monthly to the usenet
groups comp.databases.xbase.fox. and news.answers and is also
available from lenti.med.umn.edu as pub/foxpro/foxfaq1.zip, or from
rtfm.mit.edu.
You may also send email to the FAQ administrator at foxfaq@iinet.net.au
to request a copy. Every reader of the newsgroup owes it to him/herself
to read this document, just to be aware of what questions have already
been asked and answered here on the newsgroup.
The Microsoft FoxPro KnowledgeBase.
Available from ftp.microsoft.com in the directory
/developr/fox/kb (get the README.TXT file for information on how to
access the KnowledgeBase).
A windows HELP-format version is available as
/developr/fox/public/kb/FOXPRO.EXE (A little out of date)
A gopher search facility is available as
gopher://198.105.232.4:70/77%5ckb%5cdevelopr%5cfox%5cfox.src
The KnowledgeBase is what Microsoft uses to answer most questions on the
tech-support lines, and you can access that same information for free!
If you do find something in the KB that solves a problem you're having,
there are probably many readers who would like to see a summary of the
problem and the solution you find.
Microsoft technical support.
Microsoft technical support is available from 6am to 6pm pacific
time monday through friday, except for holidays.
In the US, call:
(206) 635-7191 (FoxPro/DOS and FoxPro/Windows)
(206) 635-7192 (FoxPro/Macintosh)
In Canada, support engineers are available at (905) 568-3503.
Microsoft FastTips is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at
(800) 936-4300 with a touch-tone phone. You can receive automated
answers to common questions and problems, or access a library of
technical notes, all delivered by recording or fax.
Microsoft "wish line" on the net is foxwish@microsoft.com
INTERNET SOURCES
NEWS GROUPS
FOXPRO USER GROUPS
An extensive list of Foxpro User Groups can be accessed from
Colin Keeler's web site:
http://www.state.sd.us/people/colink/fox_ug2.htm
SEARCH ENGINES
Microsoft's FoxPro Knowledgebase: Gopher Search
gopher://198.105.232.4:70/77%5ckb%5cdevelopr%5cfox%5cfox.src
The Rocky Mountain List's Gopher Search (Pete Kruckenberg)
gopher://halfdan.med.umn.edu:70/11/Computer%20Information/Foxpro%20List
HTML
Search of MS Foxpro Knowledge Base
http://198.105.232.5:80/kb/indexes/fox.htm
FOXPRO WEB SITES
MICROSOFT SOURCES
MicroSoft's Foxpro Homepage
http://www.microsoft.com/FoxPro/default.htm
MicroSoft's VFP Page
http://www.microsoft.com/VFOXPRO/
PRIVATE WEB SITES
Gordon Angus' FoxPro Site (Current c.d.x.f. FoxFAQ)
http://www.iinet.net.au/foxpro/
Willy De la Court's VFP Utilities Download Page
http://www.ping.be/~ping0150/vfp.html
Donal Fitterer's "Fox FAQ" Page
http://www.sover.net/~marketd/foxpro.html
Arnon Gal-Oz' Israeli Visual FoxPro Site
http://www.ontime.co.il/vfp.htm
Bill O'Connor's "VFP FAQ" Page
http://members.aol.com/bocon
Colin Keeler's Site
http://www.state.sd.us/people/colink/fox_page.htm
Malcolm Pitcher's UK Site
http://www.hop.man.ac.uk/staff/mpitcher/foxpro.html
Michel Fournier's Site (FoxPro Yellow Pages)
http://www.transformation.com/foxpro/
Neil Johnson's Site(Neil's Foxpro Resources)
http://www.patriot.net/users/johnson/html/neil/fox/fox.htm
Chris Kelch's FoxPro Code
http://guru.med.cornell.edu/~kelch/foxpro.html
Jason Landry's Site(GENSCRNX)
http://www.exch.com/fox.htm
Donovan Loucks' FoxPro Page
http://www.primenet.com/~dloucks/foxpage.html - size 2K - 15 Nov 95
Guillermo Guerra's Foxpro Code Snippets Site
http://execpc.com/~gguerra/index.html
Donaby Henton's Electric Foxpro Site
http://discover-net.net/~dhenton/ghtml/efox.html
Indiana University's Foxpro Site
http://tempest.ucs.indiana.edu/DBSG/lab/fox.html
Oscar's Foxpro Page
http://www.libertynet.org/~oscar/html/interest.html
Ski's FoxPro Development Tools
http://ascorpnt.mda.uth.tmc.edu/bios/ski/dtools.htm
USER GROUP WEB SITES
Blue Sky Free-Net FoxPro Special Interest Group
http://www.freenet.mb.ca/community/computers/user-groups/FoxProSIG.html
Central Florida FoxPro User Group
http://www.worldramp.net/foxpro/
Chicago Fox Users and Developers Group
http://www.imginfo.com/fudg.html
Indianapolis FoxPro/Access Special Interest Group
http://www.surf-ici.com/fpasig
Minnesota FoxPro Users Group
http://www.actgroup.com/fox_mn/
Montreal FP User's Group
http://www.transformation.com/mfug/
Central Virginia FoxPro Users Group
http://www.infi.net/~johnson/cvfox/
Salt Lake Foxpro Users Group
http://www.xmission.com/~css/slfug.htm
Ottawa Fox Users SIG
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/AndrewRMacNeill/foxsig.htm
Raezer's FoxPro Web Page
http://www.premier.net/~raezer/fox.htm
COMMERCIAL WEB SITES
EMS FoxPro Vendors List
http://www.wdn.com/ems/lists/foxutil.htm
Boston Microcomputer Consulting
http://turnpike.net/emporium/B/bmc/foxpage.htm
Foxweb
http://www.intermedia.net/aegis/
Future Communications Systems (FoxWeb)
http://www.totw.com/fox.htm
G.A. Technologies - Foxpro Database Programming
http://www.tgx.com/ga-tech/
HALLoGRAM - Resellers of more than 100 FoxPro products
http://www.usa.net/hall/
Information Management Group
http://www.imginfo.com.
Master Creative Software
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/masterw/homepage.htm
Microsoft
http://www.microsoft.com
http://www.microsoft.com/FoxPro/default.htm
Pinnacle Publishing
http://www.pinpub.com/
Prosoft Systems International
http://access.digex.net/~psii/home.html
SBT Accounting Systems
http://www.sbtcorp.com/xbase/>xBASE Applications and Programming
SilverWare International
http://rampages.onramp.net/~silver
Talking xBASE
http://www.primenet.com/~vladi/txb.html
Weblink
http://ciint1.ciinc.com/vfpdemo.htm
West Wind Web Connection for VFP
http://www.west-wind.com/tech/wwcgi.htm
FoxWeb HomePage
http://www.foxweb.com/
FOXPRO DEVELOPERS (LISTING)
EMS FoxPro Vendors List
http://www.wdn.com/ems/lists/foxutil.htm
FTP LOCATIONS
lenti.med.umn.edu/pub/foxpro
(can also be accessed as: lenti.med.umn.edu/pub/halfdan/foxpro)
File descriptions are in the file "index".
Freely-distributable files can be uploaded to /pub/foxpro/incoming. After
uploading, send a message to listmaster@dsw.com with the file name, a
50-character description, and any pertinent notes about the file. Files are
moved to /pub/foxpro/verify for checking, and then to /pub/foxpro within a
few days.
nstn.ns.ca/pub/pc-stuff/foxpro/
mercurio.univr.it/pub/msdos/foxpro
(Includes Mirrors of nstn and lenti sites)
ftp.hop.man.ac.uk/sys/ftp/foxpro/
(Malcolm Pitcher's UK Site)
ftp.microsoft.com/developr/fox/KB:
Selected articles from the KnowledgeBase including
articles, workarounds, and problem descriptions.
ftp.microsoft.com/developr/fox/Public:
Various supported applications, tools, utilities,
drivers, and fixes. Call Microsoft Product Support
Services for any questions about items found in this
directory.
The files required to patch FoxPro from version 2.6
to version 2.6a can be found in the "/UPDATES/CURRENT"
subdirectory.
The files required to patch FoxPro from version 2.5a
to version 2.5b can be found in the "/UPDATES/OLD"
subdirectory.
ftp.microsoft.com/SOFTLIB/MSLFILES/fw1003.exe:
Foxpro resource kit
oak.oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/dbase
(General dbase)
MAILING LISTS
The Rocky Mountain List has ceased to exist as of 15 October 1996 - The following remains for historical interest:
The Rocky Mountain FoxPro Mailing List:
There were two versions of this mailing list:
an interactive one, where you get every message as it is submitted;
and a digest version, which compiles each day's messages into one message
that is sent out at midnight each day.
The digest comes with a nice table of contents to help you sort through the
messages.
The digest version is working again.(8th May '96)
Interactive List:
To subscribe to the interactive mailing list, send mail to
foxpro-l-request@dsw.com
with the word "subscribe" in the body or Subject: of the message. Your
subscription will start immediately with the next message that is submitted.
Digest List:
To subscribe to the digest mailing list, send mail to
foxpro-d-request@dsw.com
with the word "subscribe" in the body or Subject: of the message. Your
subscription will begin with the next digest that is sent out (at midnight).
To unsubscribe - as above, but "unsubscribe" in body or Subject.
To submit messages to the mailing list, send them to
foxpro-l@dsw.com
Hourglass List (Darcy Whyte). (Darcy's List has taken over the Rocky Mountain List)
How to subscribe to the list:
SEND TO majordomo@magmacom.com
put the following in the message body
subscribe hourglass youremail@address
How to get off the list:
Same as subscribing except use the word unsubscribe instead of subscribe
How to POST to the list:
SEND TO hourglass@magmacom.com
University of Kansas Mailing List:
To subscribe, send mail to
listserv%ukanvm.bitnet@vm42.cso.uiuc.edu
with the "subscribe foxpro-l" plus your firstname lastname in the body of
the text. (e.g. "subscribe foxpro-l Joe Blow")
To unsubscribe - as above, but "unsubscribe foxpro-l" or
"signoff foxpro-l" in body of the text to
LISTSERV@UKANVM.BITNET (or LISTSERV@UKANVM.CC.UKANS.EDU).
Please note that this command must NOT be sent to the list
address (FOXPRO-L@UKANVM) but to the LISTSERV address
(LISTSERV@UKANVM).
To submit messages to the mailing list, send to
foxpro-l%ukanvm.bitnet@vm42.cso.uiuc.edu.
WEB DISCUSSION SITES
Dataperipherals - Singapore -Foxpro discussion board
http://dataperipherals.com/html/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS
The BCNN FoxPro electronic newsletter is published monthly in
comp.databases.xbase.fox. The newsletter is archived at
lenti.med.umn/pub/foxpro as bcnn*.zip.
Subscriptions are free, and the information on how to subscribe is
included at the bottom of each newsletter.
COMPUSERVE
Compuserve is a commercial network to which you must pay a monthly
subscription, volume charges, and additional monthly fees to subscribe
to some 'special interest groups' (called 'forums'). The Foxpro group is
one of these. It's name is 'FOXFORUM'.
Once in Compuserve, you access the Foxpro specific information by
typing 'GO FOXFORUM' at any ! prompt.
MAGAZINES / PERIODICALS
FoxPro Advisor:
Advisor Communications International, Inc.
(The same people that do Data Based Advisor, Clipper Advisor,
dBase Advisor and Access Advisor).
Published monthly. $4.95/issue, or yearly subscription for $65.00
FoxPro Advisor Subscription Dept
PO Box 469032
Escondido CA 92046
(800) 336-6060
70007.1614@compuserve.com
GO FOXFORUM on Compuserve
FoxTalk Magazine:
FoxTalk
Pinnacle Publishing, Inc.
18000 72nd Avenue South Suite 217
Kent, WA 98032
Mailing Address:
PO Box 888
Kent, WA 98035-0888
Ph: (800) 788-1900
Fax: (206) 251-5057
72600.140@compuserve.com
COMPUSERVE FORUM: GO PINNACLE
BBS: (206) 251-6218
FoxPro Developer's Journal
FoxPro Developer's Journal is published monthly by The Cobb Group.
A US subscription costs $89 per year.
This publication is very similar to FoxTalk, but is smaller
(about 16 pages, but with no advertising).
It contains some very useful information, each issue usually
contains at least one article that is worth the subscription price.
Ph. 1-800-223-8720.
Pinter FoxPro Newsletter
The Pinter FoxPro Letter, published in the U.S. and Russia by
Les Pinter, Pinter Consulting, is 24 pages of useful source
code and techniques for FoxPro and Visual FoxPro.
76434.104@compuserve.com