Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-17 Thread Alan Bourke
Pretty much this: “You know how people say ‘use the right tool for the job’, well tabs are designed for indentation. So use them, rather than bodge some artificial implementation using an arbitrary number of spaces.” -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-17 Thread Man-wai Chang
I used tabs, but I re-defined the tab length to 2 instead of 4. :) On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:04 AM, Stephen Russell srussell...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.itworld.com/article/2909268/the-war-of-the-whitespaces-rages-on-among-programmers.html -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \

Re: Performance of DOSBox

2015-04-17 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:16 PM, Ted Roche tedro...@gmail.com wrote: All true, but Kevin and I are running DOSBox on non-Windows platforms (Ubuntu and Fedora Linux respectively, I think) and TameDOS runs on Windows. Inspired by this idea, I'm trying FreeDOS on a Qemu/KVM VM. Looks like it

Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-17 Thread AndyHC
On 17/04/2015 2:24 PM, Alan Bourke wrote: Pretty much this: “You know how people say ‘use the right tool for the job’, well tabs are designed for indentation. So use them, rather than bodge some artificial implementation using an arbitrary number of spaces.” troll Well yes, use tabs of

PDF on VFP Form

2015-04-17 Thread Chris Davis
Can anyone help with the following ... Using the Microsoft Browser Control to display a PDF within the VFP Form. This sometimes works and sometimes without any errors just displays a grey box instead. Any ideas? Thanks Chris.

Re: Nulls

2015-04-17 Thread Gene Wirchenko
At 09:05 2015-04-17, Paul Hill paulroberth...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I read this today: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4456438/how-do-i-correctly-pass-the-string-null-an-employees-proper-surname-to-a-so We have an employee whose last name is Null. He kills our employee lookup

[NF] Recover Files with Knoppix

2015-04-17 Thread Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox)
Hey, guys - -- My Mac's hard disk suddenly and without warning crashed and burned (not literally) yesterday. It won't even mount with the Mac disk recovery utility, so I guess it really is toast. Most everything is backed up, fortunately, but there are a few files that were not. I am trying to

Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-17 Thread Thierry Nivelet
Issue nearly solved by today's text editors such as Sublime Text Thierry Nivelet FoxInCloud Give your VFP app a second life in the cloud http://foxincloud.com/ Le 17/04/2015 04:04, Stephen Russell a écrit :

Re: PDF on VFP Form

2015-04-17 Thread Ted Roche
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 10:58 AM, Chris Davis chr...@actongate.co.uk wrote: Using the Microsoft Browser Control to display a PDF within the VFP Form. This sometimes works and sometimes without any errors just displays a grey box instead. Any ideas? Let's narrow down

Re: [NF] Windows 7 and Dot-Matrix Printers

2015-04-17 Thread Gene Wirchenko
At 12:41 2015-04-16, Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Thu, 16 Apr 2015, at 05:38 PM, Gene Wirchenko wrote: At 01:55 2015-04-16, Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm wrote: Dot matrix eh? Quaint. VFP is quaint. I still use it. How about you? Dot matrix is very

Re: Nulls

2015-04-17 Thread Paul Hill
On 16 April 2015 at 18:47, AndyHC jarnd...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/04/2015 15:53, Laurie Alvey wrote: In my innocence, I wonder why you want to disallow NULLs? They are, IMHO, the best way to hold unknown or irrelevant column values. Laurie ... and one day they'll bite your ass - I

Re: The truth is out now

2015-04-17 Thread Ted Roche
Time-wasting trollbait. Pick your standards and deal with the consequences. Learn to cope with other people's code that chose the other standard. On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 4:54 AM, Alan Bourke alanpbou...@fastmail.fm wrote: Pretty much this: “You know how people say ‘use the right tool for the

Re: Data Dictionary questions

2015-04-17 Thread Joe Yoder
Thanks everyone for all the input. At this point I my code scans through multiple databases doing the following for several hundred tables: - Loop through the original table to build a cursor with the memo fields converted to character fields - Build a header string with field names

Re: [NF] Windows 7 and Dot-Matrix Printers

2015-04-17 Thread Stephen Russell
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Gene Wirchenko ge...@telus.net wrote: Have used many of these in the past for auto sales paperwork: http://www.amazon.com/Oki-Data-62418701-Okidata-Printer/dp/B7G7O1/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top?ie=UTF8 If you try that driver maybe that will work better.

Re: [NF] Recover Files with Knoppix

2015-04-17 Thread Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox)
OK, well I was able to repair the disk using an online Apple utility. Hoop-dee-doo! Surley time! On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Ken Kixmoeller (ProFox) foxh...@information-architecture.com wrote: Hey, guys - -- My Mac's hard disk suddenly and without warning crashed and burned (not

RE: Nulls

2015-04-17 Thread Richard Kaye
Well this seems like the right time to share this one again. :-) https://xkcd.com/327/ -- rk -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Paul Hill Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 12:05 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Nulls I read this