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Boston Computer News Network                                     October, 1993
A Service of the Boston Computer Society, USA                     Vol.2  No.10
Sponsored by the Xbase Language Group                          Clipper Version
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 1. Editorial:  Does THE COBBLER Wear VO Sneaks?
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    ReplyTo:  Les Squires Internet:BCNN@world.std.com  CIS:73020,3435.

    When a developer at Microsoft comes to Bill Gates and wants to create
    a new Microsoft application, does Bill ever hand them a copy of Fox or
    Access and ask them to develop their application in Fox or Access?
    Does Philippe Kahn at Borland hand developers a copy of dBASE IV or
    dBASE for Windows, saying "Here is the Borland foundation technology.
    Using dBASE will make sure you have asked all the right questions, and
    that we will be able to satisfy the highest number of users over the
    longest amount of time"?

    Charles Wang at Computer Associates now tells applications developers
    to read CA 90's and to get in line for the VO Beta.  VO is being
    adopted as CA's foundation technology.  It represents the best
    collective wisdom as to the development and maintenance of long-term
    solutions.  As a company that supports over 300 applications, and the
    numbers are growing every day, future applications developers will in
    fact have to make a case for NOT using VO.  Any of you who have
    implemented your own corporate standards will likely understand this
    wisdom immediately, in your very gut, and probably in your pocketbook.

    Study the above situations of Bill and Philippe, on the one hand, and
    Charles, on the other.  Someday soon we'll be able to explain the
    differences with much more clarity than at present.  It'll be very
    clear why Fox or Access or dBASE IV or what-have-you will never be
    competition for Visual Objects.  Those who have developed repository
    based (or 'data driven' or 'data dictionary') approaches to managing
    the application development are about 25 miles ahead of those who have
    stuck with traditional code-based systems.  Finally, the children of
    the cobbler all wear shoes.  VO Sneakers!

    Finally, what shoes is Charles wearing?  Does the cobbler use his own
    products?  Has Charles himself signed up for the beta, hoping soon to
    begin his 'VO built' Executive Information System?  Does he long for
    the day that VO ships so he can take a few minutes each morning to
    review how his company is doing?  As he might say it, "Do we need
    to re-invent anything today?"  I'll know VO has arrived when the
    cobbler wears his own sneaks.

    Editor's note on editor's editorial.

    I'd like to hear from EACH of you who have attempted in any way to
    build repository-based applications.  Do these editorials on VO fit 
    with your experience?  How do you explain repositories to those who 
    have never known repositories?  How do you explain to a Fox developer 
    how many magnitudes away from their experience VO is?  How will you 
    keep from snickering as you discuss the cobbler's shoes when you explain
    this to your clients? How do we break this to Bill and Philippe?  
    To the broader industry?

 2. BCS October Meeting:  Tools For the New Clipper Programmer
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    ReplyTo:  Chris Pels [73777,3562]
    Topic:    Tools for the New Clipper Programmer.
    Date:     October 19, 1993, 6:30 p.m.
    Place:    128 Entrepreneurs Center, 200 Fifth Avenue, Waltham, MA.

    Speakers: Darrien Forcier [72117,1632], Chris Pels [73777,3562]

    Session 1: Development Environments

    Believe it or not, Windows as an integrating IDE platform.  Still
    running under single user DOS?  Why not check out their talk and learn
    some of their tricks.  Chris & Darren will present you with their "Top
    Ten" pick list of tools that you simply shouldn't be caught dead
    without...

    CA-Clipper has evolved from a "Pocket Database Compiler" into a full
    blown development language with third party object oriented extensions.
    As such the peripheral tools around it and the development techniques
    have grown and "evolved" (pun intended) quite a bit.  The discussion
    will focus on making the most of your development environment and
    taking advantage of the following tools:

    Windows 3.1 Multitasking & Network Simulation, MultiEdit W/Evolve,
    Rmake/Opus Make, PVCS Source Code Control/Configuration Management,
    Library Utilities (MS LIB, Libman, FunckyII Flib), Expert Help,
    Techwriter, and dClip 3.0.

    Session 2: Third Party Libraries, Are They Worth It?

    It is a tough task for the new, or even the experienced, Clipper
    programmer to sift through the numerous third party libraries in the
    Clipper community. To jump start new Clipper programmers, a number of
    the popular third party libraries will be reviewed. The discussion will
    emphasize unique ways to use the libraries in your applications. The
    libraries to be reviewed will include: Class(y), ExoSpace, FlexFile II,
    FUNCky II, Grumpfish, ProVision Windows, Successware's New Version 1.5
    FoxPro CDX and New Hyper-Six RDDs.

 3. User Group Presidents Conference in Islanda, New York.
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    ReplyTo:  Les Squires Internet:BCNN@world.std.com  CIS:73020,3435.

    On September 30th, 230 user group presidents representing 10 Computer
    Associates product lines met in Islanda, N.Y.  Charles Wang, Chairman
    and CEO, greeted the group saying 'You are our elite'.  It became clear
    very early that CA designed a meeting to brief us on the industry, on
    CA's attempts to excel in the computer industry, and on the ever-
    growing need for creative business alliances.  'It's the people who
    support you who make all the difference.'

    The briefings spoke of Unix, mainframes, AS400's, UniCenter, GUI,
    Clipper, Visual Objects, cross-platform solutions, VAX, CA90's.  We
    were being briefed on a list of topics as broad as any issue of PC
    Week!  Charles then presented Sanjay Kumar (Executive Vice President,
    Operations), Alan Paller (Director of Open Systems), Anders Vinberg
    (Senior Vice President, Research & Development), Ron Nall (Vice
    President, Research & Development), Bill Bill Gannon, Jr. (Director,
    Sentry Market Research), and Neil Toomb (Vice President, C.A.R.E.).
    Each speaker took his turn laying out a plan by which all of us might
    place our bets and seek to make good in the computer industry.

    BCNN invited all User Group Presidents to email some of their best
    insights from the meeting.  We thought you might like to hear what 300
    of your leaders think.  Below are the most lucid insights submitted to
    date.  BCNN plans to post all messages on CompuServe LIB 0 within the
    next few weeks.

    The future of Clipper and the Clipper language is in good hands.
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    ReplyTo:  Yau-Man Chan, User Group President.
              San Francisco Bay Area Clipper Developers Association
              San Francisco, California USA
              70731,3523

    After the more in-depth look at CA, I have to say I am quite impressed
    with the company.  I feel that the future of Clipper and the Clipper
    language is in good hands.  I am quite sure that VO under their care
    and nurturing will live up to all our expectation as the
    language/development system of choice for the 90's.

    Now I Get It!
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    ReplyTo:  Gerald E. Nelson, User Group President.
              Washington Area Clipper Users Group
              Washington, DC  USA


    Some months ago I received an invitation from Computer Associates to
    attend the User Group Presidents Conference in Islandia.  I immediately
    decided what this was going to be about and how I could get in my two
    cents worth.  Wrong again Nelson.

    First I learned that this conference was for all the User Group
    Presidents (not just the Clipper folks).  I thought that was a bit
    strange but rationalized that some "Corporate Relations" issues no
    doubt apply to every one.  My pre-conceived ideas were still intact. 
    We can talk about getting better service on mailings, using their
    facilities...   The list could go on agnosia.

    When the agenda arrived a couple of weeks before the conference I
    really got confused. The whole agenda looked like one big briefing on
    Computer Associates. The topics covered CA90's:Foundation for
    Intelligent Evolution, Computer Associates Structure and Migrating:The
    Future of Application Development, and the C.A.R.E program (what ever
    that is).  What are we really doing here I wondered as walked around
    the opening reception chatting with friends I had made at previous
    Technicons.  I introduced my self to a couple of people who I didn't
    know.  They were from the mainframe world and while they were pleasant
    they seemed even more confused than me.

    About half way through Friday morning I started to get a ray of light.
    This CA90's presentation is fascinating, I thought.  Clipper is the
    first language for which a Visual Objects compiler is being developed.
    More languages will come.  The slide shows xBase, C/C++, COBOL and
    more!  Computer Associates really does have a plan of direction and it
    is important to their success that the Clipper community succeed. "I
    got it."  That's what my head told me as I ambled down the hall on a
    short break. Not wrong, but I still didn't see it all.

    Lunch time comes and I'm sitting at this big round table.   I
    introduced myself to the fellow on my left.  He is an IDMS guy. I say
    'hi' to a couple of Clipper folks as they walk by.  The IDMS guy leans
    over and asks "How come you Clipper guys all know each other"?   Now I
    get it!  If CA90's is to be a real success, we need to know each other. 
    We need to learn from each other and we need to cooperate.

    On Saturday we listened to a presentation of this C.A.R.E.  Had I taken
    the time to carefully inspect the agenda I would have at least known
    that it means Computer Associates Regional Exchange program, the name
    of the CA User Group program. Interesting huh?  Subtle I think: CA
    knows that they need all of us to work together and yet they would not
    dare force us upon each other.   After all, I work with Clipper or CA-1
    or Top Secret or IDMS or ACCPAC Plus or what ever. What could those
    other people ever have in common with me?   The answer, my friend, is
    solutions. Now I get it.

    My friend from Connecticut suggested that someone come and present
    CA90's to a collection of CA User Groups in his area.  What a great
    idea!  I'll steal it. I've already left a message with the Regional CA
    people to make the same suggestion for the Washington area.   In fact
    I'm going to offer to host it on a WACUG meeting night. I Hope to see
    you there, what ever product it is that you use.


   A Eureka Regarding Object Oriented Programming.
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   ReplyTo:  Linda Berry, User Group President.
             Louisville CA-Clipper User Group
             Louisville, Kentucky USA
             76620,3543

    I saw that object oriented programming is a process of creating organic
    entities that can be thought of as living beings.  They have the
    potential for interacting and aligning with each other in all the ways
    that people and things around us interact.  Furthermore, they can act
    as intelligently and/or as stupidly as any of the rest of us.  They can
    make decisions, route processes, request authorizations and in many
    other ways enhance and support operations in which they are involved.
    They can also learn and inheritance from other classes is the analog to
    our learning processes as skills are passed on to new entities who add
    new abilities to those already present.

    To create these new beings we need to learn to think in new ways.  The
    programming is similar but the underlying thinking processes are
    different from those appropriate to modular programming of modal
    programs.  The president's conference has changed my approach toward
    design and implementation of programs.

    On Re-inventing.
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    ReplyTo:  Erik Wynn, User Group President.
              Ottawa Clipper User Group
              Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
              76170,3461, (613) 256-5665

    Charles Wang stated that CA's success can be attributed to their
    philosophy of constantly re-inventing themselves.  Always looking at
    things from a positive perspective.  The ability to take any situation
    and turn it into a winning opportunity.  To experience the CA
    philosophy, to understand their approach to the industry and the world,
    is ominous.  We were presented with this philosophy, this knowledge,
    and came alive.  Never before have I seen so many developers, from all
    backgrounds, so excited about the future.

    CA's commitments.
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    ReplyTo:  Bruce Jones, User Group President.
              Orange County Clipper User Group
              Huntington, California, USA
              71533,3460

    I think it is encouraging that we are dealing with a company that has
    the financial resources to sponser a conference like the one in
    Islandia.  It makes me think that they also have the resources to
    develop a product and to stick with it if it is not an immediate market
    success.

    However, the main thing that I came away with is where CA's commitments
    are.  I think they are committed to the user groups.  They are
    committed to the Client/Server architecture, and they are committed to
    VO.  The fact that they showcased VO to all of their user groups, and
    not just the Clipper groups made me feel good about their plans for the
    product.  One thing I did not get from the conference was a warm fuzzy
    feeling about the release dates of VO.

    I am encouraged about the future of CA and Clipper.
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    ReplyTo:  Scott Hurlbert, User Group President.
              Bakersfield Clipper User Group  
              Bakersfield, Calif USA
              72040,3702

    I thought the CARE conference was great & coordinating by the CA staff
    was some of the best I've seen.  As for insights, the discussion of CA
    products other than Clipper was very enlightening for me and
    potentially very useful.  I do consulting for large corporations that
    deal with the problems which are addressed by UniCenter.

    Even more interesting, to me, was the look at how CA works as a
    company.  I read the 21st Century Management book during the flight
    home.  The author is _exactly_ right about the radical differences
    between CA and the rest of the large-corporate world.  Because of these
    differences, and the obvious success they have provided, I am
    encouraged about the future of CA and Clipper.

    The Big Picture.
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    ReplyTo:  Steve Busey, User Group President.
              Delta Clipper User Group
              Atlanta, Georgia USA
              70224,37

    Although they didn't spell it out until the "closing remarks", CA was
    trying to show all of us "the big picture", that CA has a lot of "fish
    in the sea" and are aiming toward a single way of frying them: CA90s.
    But it is still difficult to believe Charles' remark that "there 
    were other products before Clipper". <g>

    It was heartening to see that CA recognizes the importance of user
    groups in evangelizing their products, and they show a willingness to
    support UGs for the long haul. That makes for a real win/win situation.

    One suggested proposal I'd really like to see implemented is a monthly
    "letter from CA" for newsletters, that can pass along CA's philosophy
    directly, without being "translated" by the UGC. A letter along the
    lines of Marc Sokol's "Persistent Object" in Clipper Advisor would be
    great. We could even print his picture, then send him messages telling
    him to tighten his necktie. <g>

 4. January-February Battle of the Linkers:  Blinker vs. Exospace
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    ReplyTo:  Les Squires Internet:BCNN@world.std.com  CIS:73020,3435.
    ReplyTo:  Jud Cole  75140,1175
              Blink, Inc., Richmond, Virginia USA
              804-747-6700

    We live in exciting times.  Linkers that utilize up to 16MB of memory,
    as if it were conventional memory.  Dual mode programs that
    automatically detect at startup whether the runtime machine can run in
    protected mode.  Programs automatically utilize all available memory on
    the PC, from the smallest 8086 right up to the Pentium and beyond.  And
    they do so across programming languages (Microsoft C, C++, Visual C++,
    Assembler, FORTRAN, Pascal, Watcom C, Symantec C++, CA-Clipper 5.x
    (using Clip-4-Win), Borland C, C++ and Assembler).

    Should you use Exospace or Blinker?  The Clipper Group in Boston will
    generate some answers over the next 3 months.  Please submit your own
    experiences to BCNN@World.Std.Com.

 5. What does '+Postage Due+' Mean?
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    ReplyTo:  Gregory D. Luse [72072,2520]

    I have researched the question of 'postage due' preceding the Subject
    on Email messages.  CompuServe staff have confirmed that CompuServe
    charges their accounts for sending and receiving to/from Internet.
    These messages appear only for accounts using the Standard Pricing
    Plan, this charge being deducted from the standard mail allowance.

    The charges are:        $0.15 for the first 7500 characters
                            $0.05 for each 2500 additional characters.

    If the message is deleted without reading or automatically deleted by
    the system after 30 days, there is no charge.  These charges, of
    course, come out of the $9.00 monthly allowance.  It costs about $.60
    to download and read BCNN.

 6. Letter to the Editor:  MultiMedia.
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    ReplyTo:   David J Byer
               Ipswich River Computer Studio, Ipswich, Massachusetts USA
               76304,206
               Internet: dbyer@world.std.com
    ReplyTo:   Microsoft Multimedia Jump Start Developer's Conference
               800-438-3976

    MultiMedia (audio, video, graphics, and animation) is one area to which
    I believe our group should pay attention.  Think of what it can mean to
    our database applications to have data or code linked to bitmaps, still
    photos, graphic animation, and full motion video.  In the last few
    years we've all seen high-speed modems, fast CPUs, VGA color, large
    amounts of RAM and disk storage become standard parts of our
    professions.  Soon we'll all be adding the components of multimedia and
    the lines between computer communications and the telephone/television/
    cable world will disappear.

    I will attend the Microsoft Multimedia Jump Start Developer's
    Conference that is traveling the country, and I am volunteering to
    write-up a review of it for next month's issue of BCNN. I am also happy
    to have my CIS and Internet addresses posted as a contact for others in
    the group with a special interest in this area.

 7. *New Service*  Clipper FTP Downloads via SAMBDA.
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    ReplyTo:  Grant D McHerron   grant@world.std.com

    The BCNN has receive numerous requests for further information about
    the Internet.  Here are some notes that particularly relate to Clipper
    developers.

    Electronic Mail & List Servers.

    Practically everyone on the Internet (or on a system such as America On
    Line, Delphi, CompuServe etc.) has a mail box for posting messages
    around the world. You already know how this simple mailbox can become a
    complex door to a world of people who share similar interests.  Over
    and above the standard one-on-one electronic mail, Internet abounds
    with List Servers.  One person sets up a mailing address and the List
    Server automatically re-broadcasts incoming messages.  By sending a
    message to one address (normal email), you effectively have sent it to
    all people named on that list.

    CLIPPER@BRUFPB.BITNET is a list server for Clipper.  This list produces
    two to ten messages per day on Clipper related subjects as people post
    reviews, questions and answers to the central list server.  To gain
    access to this system, mail an email message to listserv@brufpb.bitnet
    with no subject and the words "subscribe clipper" and your name on a
    line of their own, as shown below:

	world% mail listserv@brufpb.bitnet
	subject:
	subscribe clipper Grant McHerron
	^D
	EOT
	world%

    The server returns a message informing you that you are on the Clipper
    mailing list, gives you some sample commands and a general blurb about
    the mailing list.  You should start receiving messages in a day or two.
    To post questions or reviews, email them to clipper@brufpb.bitnet.
    You're now hooked into the mailboxes of a number of experienced
    Clipperheads, most of whom are quite willing to help you with any
    problems you have.

    Clipper News Feeds.

    USENET NEWS feeds on the Internet cover practically every subject.  To
    Use RN or NN (or one of many other news reader programs) on the
    Internet to access this information. Information in these news feeds is
    broken up into sections and topics (such as sci.space, rec.arts.humour,
    comp.sys.msdos, etc).  Your news feeder lets you select the topics that
    you like. Once you have a set of topics, it then displays each article
    to your screen.  Unlike a newspaper, many of these news feeds are two-
    way. You can send follow-up notes and articles to the news line
    disagreeing or expanding upon an article that you found of interest.
    Thus, what is coming across these feeds is not just those articles
    selected by the editorial staff of a magazine but the musings and
    attitudes of many intelligent people who share the interest.  Some news
    lists are moderated, that is, only those articles or notes that the
    moderator think are valid are posted to everyone. This is very handy on
    some feeds in which the number of worth-while, on-topic postings
    compared to the off-topic, mindless ravings that often appear gets out
    of control.

    There are only a few news feeds to choose from on the subject of Xbase
    and Clipper. Take a look at the following:

        alt.comp.databases.xbase.clipper
        comp.databases (general database)
        comp.databases.xbase.misc and
        comp.databases.xbase.foxpro.


    Clipper Downloads Using FTP via SAMBA.

    Similar to the LIB areas on CompuServe, Cezar Cichocki has dedicated an
    area to Clipper on a Warsaw University computer in Poland.  The network
    address is samba.iss.uw.edu.pl. It carries many of the updates and
    patch files as well as demos, samples of OOP within Clipper, etc. which
    have been uploaded by various Clipperheads on the net.

    Use FTP (or NCFTP if you're lucky enough to have access to it) to gain
    access to SAMBA.  FTP remotely connects to the other machine.  Here is
    a sample FTP script:

	world%    ftp samba.iss.uw.edu.pl
	Connected to samba.iss.uw.edu.pl.
	220 samba FTP server (NetWare v3.11) ready.
	Name (samba.iss.uw.edu.pl:grant): anonymous
	331 Guest login ok, send ident as password.
	Password:

    Enter your full login name: e.g., grant@world.std.com. Once you have
    succeeded in logging in, the follow message appears:

	230-User ANONYMOUS: working directory set to /vol2.
	230 Guest login ok, access restrictions apply.
	ftp>

    You can use the CD command to change to the clipper directory and then
    use DIR to look at what's there.

	ftp> cd pub/clipper
	200 CWD command okay.
	ftp> dir
	200 PORT command okay.
	150 Opening data connection for  (192.74.137.5,1477).
	- [R----F--] root             1266       Aug 23 15:18    00index
	- [R----F--] root              874       Aug 19 18:25    readme.upl
	- [R----F--] root              916       Aug 19 17:52    readme.1st
	d [R----F--] root              512       Aug 24 20:10    oop
	d [R----F--] root              512       Aug 24 20:09    upgrades
	d [R----F--] root              512       Sep 21 14:11    libs
	d [R----F--] root              512       Aug 24 20:09    tools
	d [R----F--] root              512       Sep 11 18:29    nation
	d [R----F--] root              512       Aug 19 18:23    nanews
	d [R----F--] root              512       Aug 19 18:24    summer87
	d [R----F--] root              512       Aug 19 20:37    zeus
	d [R----F--] root              512       Aug 19 20:38    demos
	226 Transfer complete.
	ftp>

    Move around the directories.  The command GET copies the selected file
    to the currently logged directory of your Internet account. SX, SY or
    KERMIT transfers the files to your PC machine. The quit command exits
    FTP.

    Summary.

    While the Internet is not the most user-friendly environment, it does
    offer plenty of services for the Clipper user. I would definitely
    recommend reading "Zen and the Art of the Internet", available in text
    file format or as a $20 or so book from most book stores.  Look at "The
    Internet Companion", "The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog" and
    "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet".  These explain in much more
    detail the mail system, Usenet News and the various file transfer and
    location programs available (ftp, archie, gopher, etc). Of course, the
    on-line manuals for these programs are also worth reading but can get
    very technical and difficult at times.

 8. ** Special Meeting ** Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications.
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    ReplyTo:   Arnold Bilansky [71533,1031]
    Date:      6:30,  November 17, 1993
    Location:  Aquinas College, Boston.  (More details next month.)

    A half dozen user groups of the BCS are co-sponsoring a session on
    Visual Basic.  The session is a must-go for anybody wanting to learn
    more about Windows application development.  VBA debues in Excel 5 and
    will soon become the common macro language for most of the major
    Microsoft application programs.  Julianne Sharer, Director of
    Application Development for WexTech System, Inc., provides us with our
    first look at VBA:

       * The VBA development environment
       * The relationship between VBA and OLE 2.0 automation
       * A comparison of VBA to the stand-alone Visual Basic language
       * The differences between VBA and Excel's XLM macro language

 9. New Development Opportunities:  INTERNET on Cable TV:
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    ReplyTo:  Les Squires Internet:BCNN@world.std.com  CIS:73020,3435.
    ReplyTo:  Pat Tormey [72217,3014] FourSquare Solutions Inc.

    Telecommunications tip of the month.  By March, 1994 a major cable
    television network in Boston will have installed a 10-BASE T Ethernet
    port on all their home television receivers.  Plug your TV into one
    port.  Plug your computer into the other.  Internet will be 24-hour,
    real-time connection.  Here are some real business opportunities for
    serious developers to develop home management software!  And, as soon
    as businesses catch on and install the cable network, you will be able
    to offer all of your clients a real-time connection to all their remote
    sites and to all the homes of their employees.  Wake up, and smell the
    business, Clipper developers! <G>

10. CLIPPER->(Oct 93 Disk) Contents                                  * $$ *
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    ReplyTo: Dan Comeau [70451,2312]
             DanlWare Systems Corp.
             208-82 Armstrong Crt.
             Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3M 4M6, CANADA
             CompuServe     [70451,2312]
             InterNet       70451.2312@compuserve.com
             Voice & Fax    902/443-2207

    0UTILITY.TXT ZERoUTILITIES info - protection system integration.
    ARCVIE.ZIP   ARCVIEW v1.30.  Archive Viewing Library for Clipper.
    BALL.ZIP     Bouncing ball function / screen blanker. Clipper source.
    BCNN9309.ZIP Boston Computer News Network Clipper Newsletter for Sep/93
    BCSMEM.ZIP   Roger Donnay on Memory Mgmt and Clipper 5.x Arrays
    CLIPVER.ZIP  ClipVer scans OBJs and LIBs and reports Clipper Versions
    DOTM.ZIP     All previous CLIPPER->(Disk of the Month) file contents
    DSCNL1.ZIP   Database Software Consultants Newsletter #1, 9/93
    EWYNN.ZIP    Source code files from Erik Wynn's TechniCon 1993 session
    FRANK.ZIP    Frankie Library 1.05a Mouseable Interfaces for Clipper 5
    ISV793.ZIP   The ISVnews, July 1993 Volume 1, Issue 4
    KITPR7.ZIP   Database Software Consultants Press Release #7
    LJP3FW.ZIP   A freeware LaserJet/PCL 5 print library
    MEMOMO.ZIP   Mousey memoedit for Clipper 5 & NanForum Lib 2.1
    MMENU.ZIP    MousMenu.prg - Clipper 5.x source code - DOS menu
    NFORX.ZIP    ExoSpace Kit v1.1 for the Nanforum Toolkit v2.1
    OBJ20D.ZIP   Objects 2.0 Beta D. OOPS Engine for Clipper 5.
    PMVC.ZIP     Poor Man's Version Control System 1.0.
    PRINTR.ZIP   Printer Database (DBF) File - 100 printers/codes
    PUSHBU.ZIP   Pushbuttons for Clipper 5. Source code included.
    RADIOB.ZIP   Radio buttons version 1.2 for Clipper 5.2 GET's.  Source.
    RAMA1.ZIP    Clipperama magazine - Subscription Pricing & Info
    RCMPLB.ZIP   RCmpLib 2.0, a Clipper Lib with data compression functions
    RLIB32.EXE   RLIB 3.2 Library for Clipper 5.2 - Now Shareware
    RLIB32.ZIP   Text file describing RLIB 3.2 for Clipper 5.2 and S'87
    RLIBNG.EXE   RLIB 3.2 Norton Guide Database
    RLIBUM.EXE   RLIB 3.2 User Manual
    SCATT2.ZIP   Scatter/Gather functions: .DBF field to Memvars and back
    SCRUTI.EXE   Scrutiny Full-Function DEMO. Helps debug & test.
    SCRUTI.ZIP   Scrutiny Press Release.  New product.
    SNIP0693.ZIP Snippets of Code from Clipper International Echo 06/93
    STATWN.ZIP   StatWin 2.5 - Display a percentage processed bar.
    SYNC.ZIP     Sync two file directories with this free Clipper utility.
    ORDERFRM.TXT Order form for the CLIPPER->(Disk of the Month).
    README.TXT   Detailed description of the files on this month's disk.
    UNZIP.EXE    UnZip 5.0. Use this to unZIP the *.ZIP files.

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