On 10/18/06, Whil Hentzen (Pro*) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"I understand the words, but not the sentences."
Whil, this may just be one of those rare cases where it's not you. I started to think about what the OP was asking, but gave up. Two years, five months and -1 days ago, I wrote "Why I Don't Answer Your Questions" http://radio.weblogs.com/0117767/stories/2004/05/19/whyIDontAnswerYourQuestions.html for exactly this reason. The O-poster expects us to intuit, through mangled fragments of sentences, what it is he intends to do, what the customer is doing, which brand of network cards they use, and all the other details that might help us actually answer the question. It's just not worth the effort to me any more. All posters should put themselves in the place of others and ask "if I needed to answer this question, what else would I need to know?" rather than post the same old "how do I print?" question that has no answer. No doubt the OP was in a rush, but the message is that they value their time more than ours. I hold a divergent opinion. Instead, the post might read (and I'm just guessing): "It's time for me to deploy my first VFP application that uses MySQL as the backend, where the client will be hosting the MySQL database. The client has installed the database on one of their machines, and I intend to install my app and MyODBC on each of the machines that will use my application. My application uses DSN-less ODBC connections, so I think all I need to do is substitute the Host IP address in the string I submit to SQLStringConnect() in the VFP application. Is that right or do I need to do anything else?" Or maybe he's asking if there is a way to automatically create ODBC DSNs on client machines. But I don't know. That's too hard to chase down. Let's stick with the easy questions where we can say "Hackers Guide, page 397" or "Fundamentals, chapter 6" Maybe we should see if someone would actually *pay* us to answer these questions, since they make it so hard for us to do so. Never mind! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
