RE: [NF] Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8

2011-10-03 Thread Dave Crozier
Dan, I had no problem but I did upgrade to V8 VMWare full version just before loading it. Dave -Original Message- From: profox-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dan Covill Sent: 30 September 2011 17:39 To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] Microsoft

[NF] Format .tar.gz

2011-10-03 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
Is this a UNIX format ? What program opens this file ? TIA, E. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription

Re: [NF] Format .tar.gz

2011-10-03 Thread Grigore Dolghin
WinZip. On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Eurico Chagas Filho e28cha...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Is this a UNIX format ? What program opens this file ? TIA, E. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative  text/plain (text body -- kept)  text/html --- [excessive

Re: [NF] Format .tar.gz

2011-10-03 Thread Ed Leafe
On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: Is this a UNIX format ? What program opens this file ? 'tar' is a program for 'Tape ARchive'; essentially, it strings together a bunch of files to be written as a single file. GZip is an open-source version of the zip compression

Re: [NF] Format .tar.gz

2011-10-03 Thread Tracy Pearson
Eurico Chagas Filho e28cha...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Is this a UNIX format ? What program opens this file ? TIA, E. I believe 7-zip and winrar would both be able to open that in the windows platform. I see it mainly with linux though. -- Tracy Pearson PowerChurch Software Sent from my

[NF] VFP - Python - Dabo

2011-10-03 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
After dwelling last week w PHP, Python and MySQL I am ready to tackle Dabo. But one thing that i miss much is a book like Hacker's Guide, is there something similar for Python ? There are so many libraries( packages), that it is hard to know what is best. All I want is to allow access to my

[NF] format .tar.gz

2011-10-03 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
I decided to use a program called Universal Extractor. Very fast, dirt, but gets the job done. E. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- ___ Post Messages to:

Re: Ah memories ...

2011-10-03 Thread GaryT
Ed Leafe wrote: On Sep 30, 2011, at 7:53 AM, Alan Bourke wrote: Moving office soon and going through a period of hardcore throwing things out at the minute. Have the following Fox related items: I have one of the rarest Fox items: a CD of VFP 4! The release after 3.0 was

RE: [NF] Microsoft unveils a radically redesigned Windows 8

2011-10-03 Thread Lou Syracuse
Thanks for the heads up Dave! I was kind of hoping someone had already taken the plunge and would share their experiences. :) I haven't used the eval version outside of playing around in Windows 8 yet, but if VMs run faster then it's definitely worth the upgrade. Lou -Original

Re: [NF] Format .tar.gz

2011-10-03 Thread Paul Hill
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Ed Leafe e...@leafe.com wrote: On Oct 3, 2011, at 6:56 AM, Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: Is this a UNIX format ? What program opens this file ? 'tar' is a program for 'Tape ARchive'; essentially, it strings together a bunch of files to be written as a single

Re: [NF] VFP - Python - Dabo

2011-10-03 Thread Ed Leafe
On Oct 3, 2011, at 7:42 AM, Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: But one thing that i miss much is a book like Hacker's Guide, is there something similar for Python ? There are so many libraries( packages), that it is hard to know what is best. I guess working in a limited product like VFP

Re: [NF] VFP - Python - Dabo

2011-10-03 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
Hi Ed Let me see if i get this straight, Dabo is more like a desktop app, but it will not provide near as much a rich environment as VFP, right ? So, i should have a desktop app w all the whistles and a not so great app to access the data from the Internet, right ? E. All I want is to

Re: [NF] VFP - Python - Dabo

2011-10-03 Thread Ed Leafe
On Oct 3, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: Let me see if i get this straight, Dabo is more like a desktop app, Dabo *is* a desktop app framework. We created it because we wanted to continue to develop apps as we had with VFP, but using Python instead, and not locked into

Re: [NF] VFP - Python - Dabo

2011-10-03 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
Bear with me a little longer, please. I feel that VFP is wounded, nobody is learning it anymore... I could write a Dabo app for the desktop and it would access data on a server over the Internet. In due time i would have a rich environment my way, right ? But to access the data from a

Re: [NF] VFP - Python - Dabo

2011-10-03 Thread Ed Leafe
On Oct 3, 2011, at 2:46 PM, Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: I could write a Dabo app for the desktop and it would access data on a server over the Internet. In due time i would have a rich environment my way, right ? Yes, that's correct. But to access the data from a browser i should,

Re: [NF] VFP - Python - Dabo

2011-10-03 Thread Jean MAURICE
Le 03/10/2011 21:46, Eurico Chagas Filho a écrit : I feel that VFP is wounded, nobody is learning it anymore... That's not true ! The foxil ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox

VFP9SP2 error on COPY TO command

2011-10-03 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
User is getting this error: OLE error code 0x80030003: Unknown COM status code. Happens for just one user's computer, not others, on the COPY TO command in code. All users are XP Pro with Office 2010. User did say that he's getting odd messages from Windows since they changed something on

Re: [NF] VFP - Python - Dabo

2011-10-03 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 10/3/2011 3:50 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: If you have 1,000 users and want to update your application, you will need to send it to 1,000 different desktops and perform 1,000 upgrades. With a web app, you update the app on the webserver, and you're done. Just write/use a LOADER app/utility. :-)

Re: [NF] VFP - Python - Dabo

2011-10-03 Thread Ed Leafe
On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:29 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: Just write/use a LOADER app/utility. :-) I've probably written about a dozen of those! -- Ed Leafe ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: VFP9SP2 error on COPY TO command

2011-10-03 Thread Mike Copeland
Just ran into a similar situation with Office 2010 being installed on a WinXP system. After the installation, the registry had been jacked so that when you try to send a PDF from Acrobat Reader to an email recipient, messages talking about how Outlook had not been set up yet started popping

Re: [NF] Default Directory for Pictures in WIN7

2011-10-03 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 16:44, Charles Hart Enzer, M.D., FAACP charles.en...@uc.edu wrote: I am using WIN7 Ultimate 64-bit. Which is the default folder for Pictures:  * *C:\Users\Charles\Pictures*  * *C:\Users\Charles\Documents\My Pictures* Thank you. Is

RE: VFP9SP2 error on COPY TO command

2011-10-03 Thread Tracy Pearson
MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote on 2011-10-03: User is getting this error: OLE error code 0x80030003: Unknown COM status code. Happens for just one user's computer, not others, on the COPY TO command in code. All users are XP Pro with Office 2010. User did say that he's getting

Re: [NF] VFP - Python - Dabo

2011-10-03 Thread Stephen Russell
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 3:29 PM, MB Software Solutions, LLC mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: On 10/3/2011 3:50 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: If you have 1,000 users and want to update your application, you will need to send it to 1,000 different desktops and perform 1,000 upgrades. With

Re: Data on the Internet

2011-10-03 Thread Ed Leafe
On Oct 3, 2011, at 4:35 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: Has anyone written a VFP application that accesses data on the Internet instead of locally? I think I wrote my first such program around 2001, using MySQL as the DB server. -- Ed Leafe

RE: Data on the Internet

2011-10-03 Thread Tracy Pearson
Jeff Johnson wrote on 2011-10-03: Has anyone written a VFP application that accesses data on the Internet instead of locally? Jeff, Yes. I used an ActiveX control hosted in a C# Service, which receives HTML requests, that passes that to a VFP COM object that is spun up by the same C#

Re: Data on the Internet

2011-10-03 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
I think u can do that using LogMe In. I was going to look into that but didn't. At the time I wanted to map a drive to LogMe In address of the data in the server. Let me know if that can be achieved, please. E. Has anyone written a VFP application that accesses data on the Internet instead of

Re: Data on the Internet

2011-10-03 Thread Jeff Johnson
I have tried several things to access a remote computer - Crossloop, Teamview and LogMeIn. None of them are perfect. Crossloop is great if you can get it set up for peer to peer, but it isn't easy to configure all of the routers. If you don't have peer to peer the performance is

RE: VFP9SP2 error on COPY TO command

2011-10-03 Thread Richard Kaye
There's an install on demand feature in O2010 and that can also cause problems, iirc. Unfortunately I can't find the reference off the top of my head. -- rk -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Mike Copeland Sent:

Re: Data on the Internet

2011-10-03 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 10/3/2011 5:35 PM, Jeff Johnson wrote: Has anyone written a VFP application that accesses data on the Internet instead of locally? Yep. MySQL backend. Love it. Bob Lee's presentation at WhilFest years ago was the inspiration for me. -- Mike Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC

Re: VFP9SP2 error on COPY TO command

2011-10-03 Thread MB Software Solutions, LLC
On 10/3/2011 5:06 PM, Tracy Pearson wrote: AD or NTFS permissions might cause some of what you explained. User isn't correctly authenticated anymore. Good idea. I'll pass that on. COPY TO causes and OLE error? Are you sure? I know it doesn't make sense, as that's a very innocuous line, but

Re: Data on the Internet

2011-10-03 Thread Paul McNett
On 10/3/11 2:50 PM, Eurico Chagas Filho wrote: Has anyone written a VFP application that accesses data on the Internet instead of locally? I think u can do that using LogMe In. I was going to look into that but didn't. At the time I wanted to map a drive to LogMe In address of the data in

Re: Data on the Internet

2011-10-03 Thread Mike Copeland
Yup...several ways. VFP front end with MySQL back end is best for performance. Also pretty easy to set up and work with. You have to stop thinking about dinking with the data files and think more in terms of data sets (that you then manipulate locally and discard when finished with.) VFP

Re: [NF] VFP - Python - Dabo

2011-10-03 Thread Thierry Nivelet
You might also consider running your existing VFP app in a browser with FoxInCloud ... Thierry Nivelet FoxInCloud Give your VFP app. a new life in the cloud http://foxincloud.com/ Le 03/10/11 21:46, Eurico Chagas Filho a écrit : Bear with me a little longer, please. I feel that VFP is

Re: Data on the Internet

2011-10-03 Thread Eurico Chagas Filho
Like I said, I didn't look hard into it. But my client had another app that used LogMeIn and it was realy fast accessing the DB via internet. I couldn't get any details at the time. I set them to use TeamViewer and they r happy so am I. E. I think u can do that using LogMe In. I was going

RE: [NF] Default Directory for Pictures in WIN7

2011-10-03 Thread PabloSr
* -Original Message- * From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech- * boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Garrett Fitzgerald * Sent: Monday, October 03, 2011 5:04 PM * To: profoxt...@leafe.com * Subject: Re: [NF] Default Directory for Pictures in WIN7 * * On Mon, Oct 3, 2011

Re: [NF] Default Directory for Pictures in WIN7

2011-10-03 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 19:52, PabloSr prive...@nycap.rr.com wrote: On my win7 ultimate, it is: C:\Users\DonPablo\Pictures And for that matter, mine is mapped to a network drive, so any program that assumes C:\ will create a folder I never look at. ___

RE: [NF] Default Directory for Pictures in WIN7

2011-10-03 Thread Rick Schummer
Thank you -- steep learning curve XP -- WIN7 One other thing to adjust too for Windows 7 is the concept of Libraries. In this case, the user can include several pictures folders into one Pictures Library. Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com www.swfox.net