MB Software Solutions wrote:
Jeff Johnson wrote:
Paul: I have done this hundreds of times using ODBC. Very straight forward
and you can SCAN the access tables and write to the DBF.
So post some sample code for him, Jeff! g
Yes, go on Jeff, please. Pretty please !
New airport security - working in the terahertz range - quote from
inventer
The technology being developed in the Grand Challenge
can be used to scan for items such as concealed weapons
or materials, explosives, and weapons of mass destruction,
says Mike Wanke.
So my question is what will the
I've got loads of warnings over incompatibility with the Vista/Office
2007/IE 7 trio. Most of the bacs and accounts systems I know of wont
work with any or all three. You would have thought given the time
available to test and upgrade things would be better.
--
Michael Hawksworth
Visual Fox
The tech guy was Leo Laporte from www.callforhelptv.com
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Was watching Live with Regis and Kelly
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Stephen the Cook wrote:
Judith Barer wrote:
What would you use in an sql select statement for sql server to
replace empty() function of vfp. I would like to do the following
in t-sql
Select items.item_num , iif(!empty(addl_loc_info),.t.,.f.)
Is it
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I have one WinXP 180GB C: drive on my main machine. I have a NAS of 1.6 TB
to hold data, photos, documents and backups of systems. My wife's machine
has a 80GB divided into 3 partitions C: 20GB W2K programs, D: 40GB documents
and photos and E: 20GB just plain weird stuff.
My lap has one WinXP
Cool setup with a 1.6Tb NAS device. I have not tried to centralize to that
point yet. I have about 14 external USB2 HDD units that have between 300Gb
and 500Gb each. There is a parallel set of the same drives off-site. Every
month I rotate between the units on-site and off-site, so if anything
If the app is running sluggish and screen refreshing seems slow, then
it is probably a .NET app.
Or Java, especially if it looks terrible as well.
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What would you use in an sql select statement for sql server to
replace
empty() function of vfp. I would like to do the following in t-sql
Select items.item_num , iif(!empty(addl_loc_info),.t.,.f.)
I never messed with it a lot, so there's probably a better way, but I
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Alan Lukachko wrote:
I have one WinXP 180GB C: drive on my main machine. I have a NAS of 1.6 TB
to hold data, photos, documents and backups of systems. My wife's machine
has a 80GB divided into 3 partitions C: 20GB W2K programs, D: 40GB documents
and photos and E: 20GB just plain weird stuff.
Are there any ways to optimize UNION performance - in general or with an
Oracle 8.17 backend?
I have 5 data sets that I need to merge via a UNION and the time to its
to build each set individually is 9 secs but the time it takes to build
the same set of data and union together into a single set
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Tx Jeff
Jeff Johnson wrote:
Paul: I have done this hundreds of times using ODBC. Very straight
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Hi
Just got this from my ISP, Orange in the UK
If however you are planning on buying a new PC, or
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Hi Whil,
I'm on the road and won't be back till next week to give full details, but
some of the stuff I remember
Recovered work files from my brother's hard drive from the time he was
supervising the building of a jail and court house near Toronto. You
wouldn't
Hei Nicholas
Off course he is, but the fun is acting like he isnt.
E.
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On Feb 1, 2007, at 10:43 AM, Jeff Johnson wrote:
My personal opinion - It's pretty and flashy. My wife (a
after about the third time I saw that whooshy effect I got really
bored with it. It was more annoying than cool.
That is the problem with fake apple wannabe efforts I guess g...
Gil
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Of course the Monty Python version of the virus will only target the
French version and tell them...
'French persons, today the blood of many a brave knight shall be avenged!'
ho hum.
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Michael Hawksworth
Visual Fox Solutions
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Adam would enjoy that, actually.
--- Jim Felton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Adam, the Home Land Security could tell you but,
then they would have to
detain you in some remote military prison for many
years with no lawyer.
Jim
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http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html
'The onerous nature of Vista's content protection also provides a
perverse incentive to remove the protection measures from the content,
since for many consumers that'll be the only way that they can enjoy
their legally-acquired
They way I see it there are supposed to be two advantages to Vista:
(1) More security features
(2) Better looking interface
This is supposed to persuade me to upgrade or buy a new machine? I
don't think so.
mrgmhale wrote:
That is the problem with fake apple wannabe efforts I guess g...
Ahem, let me quote here for those who are now doing dot net... resistance
is futile, you will be assimilated!
John
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Hi all,
Whenever someone creates a report in my VFP9 system, I send everything to
the screen with REPORT FORM ... PREVIEW. That way, the users can just look
at the report before deciding if they wanna print it or not. If they wanna
print it, they can just click the printer icon at the top of
Don't remind me...
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Ahem, let me quote here for those who are now doing dot net... resistance
is futile, you will be assimilated!
John
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For those of you out there who know Mike Toni:
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From: Charles Hankey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: February 1, 2007 1:58:21 PM EST
Subject: Shipping is a Feature !
Leilani Taylor Feltman arrived at 6:01 am today !!! 7 pounds 11
ounces.
All Feltmans
Didn't he grab some how to from the .NET team?
I think you meant to say...
Didn't he write some how to' for the .NET team?
My guess is he just fixed code written by some intern. Who would ever
think it's OK to store anything in a linear linked list like that...
--
Derek
On 2/1/07, Kevin Cully [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is supposed to persuade me to upgrade or buy a new machine? I
don't think so.
A decade ago, very popular T-shirts at an Apple conference declared
Windows 95 Sucks Less! Good to hear that MS is staying the course
with their business plan...
Derek Kalweit wrote:
I'm personally not a fan of .NET as a tool so much, but I'm not so
close-minded and arrogant to think I can do something about it by
refusing to install their little framework, or bitch about it on an
anti-.NET list like this. Just let the frickin' thing install-- what's
Hi all,
Actually, rather than creating a PDF file from my application, is there a
way to send the report output to a Word DOC? Or any other file that can be
emailed and printed? There are graphics in these reports that we don't want
to lose, so I can't do this with straight TXT files.
Thanks,
I'm personally not a fan of .NET as a tool so much, but I'm not so
close-minded and arrogant to think I can do something about it by
refusing to install their little framework, or bitch about it on an
anti-.NET list like this. Just let the frickin' thing install-- what's
it hurting?
Hello,
I'm working under a deadline to transfer a DBC of VFP 9.0 tables to MS
SQL server. Before I get too far into it, I thought I'd ask for better
ideas than what I'm doing.
The constraints:
Upsizing wizard is out of the question.
Won't be able to use any MS SQL tools to pull the data in,
Derek Kalweit wrote:
I honestly find that hard to believe that the machines didn't have
some serious problems in the first place. Installing the framework
itself without using it should have very limited if any effect on the
general stability of the system. I've installed the .NET frameworks
Ouch!!!
PabloSr.
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For starters, I've had two machines lock up solid because of .NET and
.NET runtime issues...complete reformats needed...
Bill
John,
XFRX is you friend.
http://www.eqeus.com/
Free to try.
Dave Crozier
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Subject: Creating Word DOC files from VFP
Hi all,
Actually,
Upsizing wizard is out of the question.
I can highly recommend you test out the new *Sedna* Upsizing Wizard if the
structures are the same
(not sure if this was a reason for the constraint of if you were thinking the
old Upsizing wizard
stinks). It has moved several of my VFP DBCs and the data
Link: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=416
Author: George Ou, who we've skewered a few times here.
--
Ted Roche
Ted Roche Associates, LLC
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Although this link does not create a Word doc it does create a PDF and the best
part is that it is free (which rhymes
with me!)
http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp
We use this to generate email attachments out of a VFP 8 app for season ticket
sales.
Basically it is a print
On 2/1/07, Malcolm Greene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are there any ways to optimize UNION performance - in general or with an
Oracle 8.17 backend?
I have 5 data sets that I need to merge via a UNION and the time to its
to build each set individually is 9 secs but the time it takes to build
the
I'm becoming more of a fan after seeing the 2.0 version and some of the
tools. I still think for data VFP kicks sand in every other app's face.
John
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Have they determined who the father is yet?G
John
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For those of you out there who
DTC?
John
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Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:13 PM
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Hello,
I'm working under a deadline to transfer a DBC of VFP 9.0 tables to
This works just fine, but I was hoping to save a step and put a PDF icon in
the report viewing
window.
The complete source for the Report Previewer and toolbar are available in the
VFP Xsource ZIP file.
You would need to recompile the appropriate project. I recommend you
subclassing the
Rick Schummer wrote:
Upsizing wizard is out of the question.
I can highly recommend you test out the new *Sedna* Upsizing Wizard if the
structures are the same
(not sure if this was a reason for the constraint of if you were thinking the
old Upsizing wizard
stinks). It has moved
john harvey wrote:
DTC?
Bless you! :-)
(I know not of this DTC. I am but a simple caveman programmer. Your
scientists found me in a block of Ice and thawed me out. This DTC
frightens and confuses me) :-(
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The complete source for the Report Previewer and toolbar are available in the
VFP Xsource ZIP file.
I didn't know that. Cool!
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Greetings All!
I need some assistance from my esteemed ProFox colleagues. About 3 weeks
ago I managed to pinch a nerve quite badly while running some cable. After
a week of severe pain numbness I finally gutted out and went to see my
primary care physician. He concluded I indeed had a pinched
But does the Sedna handle the actual transfer of data as well, and would I be
able to write a
stand-alone utility with it that I can send to the client (who only has the
vfp9 runtimes)? If so,
I'll take a look. Thanks!
The new Upsizing Wizard uses the XML Bulk inserts to move the data. Doug
Vince Teachout wrote:
MB Software Solutions wrote:
Chester Friesen wrote:
BTW, what does the 4 do after the Order By, also the 1 after the Desc?
What Mike said. I usually use the column names instead of the column
numbers, but there are a few places where you have no choice but to
I always preferred the brute force method..
Something like this if my memory works correct
Use ODBC
Sqlconnect()
Input string = Insert into ???
Scan
sqlexec(input string)
select table
endscan
Virgil Bierschwale
http://www.bierschwalesolutions.com
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The DTC takes a fraction of the time of other update methods. If it's a one
time update, use the DTC wizard. If it is an ongoing deal, look at saving
the scripts. The data to be updated needs to be on the same server as the
SQL Server for it to work as fast as possible.
John
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First, I'm sorry that you're having so much trouble and pain. Here's
hoping for a quick and complete recovery.
I can't comment on the Speech to Text programs but I was just
researching the Dvorak keyboard. There is a right hand version that is
optimized for one handed typing. This might be
Derek Kalweit wrote:
If the app is running sluggish and screen refreshing seems slow, then
it is probably a .NET app.
Or a VFP app written by a poor coder that doesn't know how to optimize the
GUI.
I really don't understand all the .NET bashing.
We all know and have
agreed it's
Ricardo Aráoz wrote:
In SQLServer you could do :
select *
from (
Select Foo, bar from MyJunk;
UNION;
Select Foo, bar from YourJunk;
) MyStuff
order by bar, Foo
But you can not do that in VFP 6. Is it possible in VFP 9?
To my great surprise, yes it is. Neat. Thanks!
Sorry to hear about your pain, I hope you recover fully, and quickly.
I can't give you any actual usage based feedback, but the last time I
looked seriously into purchasing one of these programs (including
Dragon), the feedback Google brought up was all negative. The consensus
was it ain't
I agree.
Those who watch CNBC in the morning for the stock market reports are aware of
their recent 'upgrade' to the flashy graphics with
the annoying sound effects. It used to be so loud that I had to turn it off. I
guess they got so many complaints that they had to
tone it down a little,
Vince Teachout wrote:
Sorry to hear about your pain, I hope you recover fully, and quickly.
I can't give you any actual usage based feedback, but the last time I
looked seriously into purchasing one of these programs (including
Dragon), the feedback Google brought up was all negative. The
All the automated phone systems use it, so someone's
got to be doing something right.
--- MB Software Solutions
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Vince Teachout wrote:
Sorry to hear about your pain, I hope you recover
fully, and quickly.
I can't give you any actual usage based feedback,
but
Michael Madigan wrote:
All the automated phone systems use it, so someone's
got to be doing something right.
Good point. I've used some phone systems where the electronic operator
was accurate about 90% of the time.
--
Michael J. Babcock, MCP
MB Software Solutions, LLC
OK, let me jump in here and see if I can help.
Voice recognition is getting more and more accurate by the day, but it is
important to realize that (1) it's still a very tough problem to solve and
(2) there are parallel efforts attacking the problem. The parallel tracks
are handling (1) an
MB Software Solutions wrote:
Michael Madigan wrote:
All the automated phone systems use it, so someone's
got to be doing something right.
Good point. I've used some phone systems where the electronic operator
was accurate about 90% of the time.
Companies are going to more and
I knew of the Dvorak keyboard since the mid 80s, but had no idea there was a
right hand version. That may work out well. Thanks!
Gil
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To: [EMAIL
It's been over 10 years since I first heard about this stuff, and it's
still not ready. I don't think it ever will be in our working lifetimes.
That had been my disappointing observation since the mid-90s. I gave up on
the hype, and figured it would be a long time before it really worked.
Good point. I've used some phone systems where the electronic operator
was accurate about 90% of the time.
I find the phone system voice recognition accurate almost 100% of the time
for me... Representative!... Almost always gets me to a real human being
g!
Gil
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Excellent description. Thanks!
Gil
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OK, let me jump in here and
All I can say is don't have a dog barking in the
background or have the TV/radio on...
I came across a recent article advising one of the problems with the MS
Vista voice recognition engine is that a web site (or eMail) with certain
embedded words can actually fire off commands that can cause
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