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From: shevett@mccc.uucp (Dave Shevett)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: FoxPro
Message-ID: <1990Aug13.030429.11485@mccc.uucp>
Date: 13 Aug 90 03:04:29 GMT
References: <1052@ocsmd.ocs.com> <1990Aug10.202029.15602@wolves.uucp>
Reply-To: shevett@mccc.UUCP (Dave Shevett)
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In article <1990Aug10.202029.15602@wolves.uucp> terry@wolves.uucp (Terry L Parker) writes:
=In <1052@ocsmd.ocs.com> glenn@ocsmd.ocs.com (Glenn Ford) writes:
=
=>I would like to find out some more information on FoxPro from anyone
=>out there who has used it.  A little while ago I posted a message about
=>Oracles inability to use a LONG field in an application.  Well, Foxpro
=>can do this.  Now, my question is what can Oracle do that Foxpro
=>can't do?  Can FoxPro do search on multiple fields in a record? across
=>tables? etc... thanks.
=
=Foxpro can search on multiple fields in a record (you create an index that     
=consists of a multiple-field key).  It will not automatically search across
=multiple tables, but that is easy enough to program.
=

I think there's a couple things that you have to make sure you know about
FoxPro - 1st - it is *NOT* an SQL system.  It is a superset of A-T's dBase
system (ok, Vulcan, but you get the idea).  As Terry mentions, it's user
interface is FANTASTIC, both from a programmers standpoint, and the
end-users.  Developing within the system is a delight (multiple file
editor, copy/paste across any form of window [memo to editor to command
line to help system - all the same]).  

2 - FoxPro is only available on DOS systems.  FoxBase, the older Fox
product, is available on a dozen or so systems (I've run the same
application under Xenix, DOS, Mac, and Unix on a 3b2, and had *NO*
problems - Anyone know if FoxPro'll be moved to other platforms - say, a
Sun???)

If you're developing a large multi-user application for use on a DOS LAN,
Look seriously at FoxPro LAN - inexpensive, EXTREMELY QUICK, and *very*
powerful.

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