ProFox June 2016

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Rox Seibert
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 07 Jul '16

07 Jul '16

Bill's mentioning the FoxWiki being offline for 4 days made me think of some yesteryear prominent Fox folks who seemed to have moved on (or at least seem to have fallen off the radar). One that came to my mind was Rox Seibert. Her website is no longer valid (just the other week is was a simple Hello or some one-liner like that, but is now for sale on godaddy). I sent her an email wishing her well to her email address from http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~RoxanneSeibert~B2B but that came back no good. And her http://www.dragboatalley.com/ website is no longer valid either. Anybody know what happened to her? I saw somewhere that she's no longer with eMedicine (or was it WebMD?).

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How to set up a second email address
by Andrew Stirling 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

Hi I use Fastmail to allow my clients to send wage slips to their employees in my payroll program. Currently it is down: http://www.fastmailstatus.com/ So I suppose I should set up another email provider to forward these emails if/when Fastmail fails. So how can I tell if Fastmail is down? I do get an error after 10 seconds, 1429 OLE IDespatch exception code 0 from? Any thoughts/code much appreciated, who else to use? -- Kind regards Andrew Stirling 01250 870397 / 874580 07910467915 support(a)calcpay.co.uk http://www.calcpay.co.uk --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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[NF] M$ pays woman $10k for botched Win10 updates
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

http://www.pcmag.com/news/345656/microsoft-gives-woman-10-000-for-forced-wi…

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Win10 upgrades, was: Brexit, was: Re: [NF] Just like VFP...
by Ted Roche 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Mike Copeland <mike(a)ggisoft.com> wrote: > > I tried downloading and > burning a DVD to use for the upgrades, and it always asks for a Registration > Key even when updating a valid installation. After it rejected 5 different > keys, three brand new and had never been used, I gave up on that approach. > What's your goal here: avoiding the 3Gb+ download for each workstation, or doing a clean install? I've done the latter, and didn't need to use a registration key by wasting a lot of bandwidth: 1) Do the local "upgrade" to upgrade the existing install to Win10 2) Download the 75 Mb media tool. 3) Use the tool to download the 3Gb+ media AGAIN and create new media for a clean install (USB tab highly recommended!) and then install the clean version over the dirty, upgrade-in-place version. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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[NF] Password instructions from my local credit union
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

"Passwords must not contain all letters or numbers, and be at least 6 characters and no more than 10 characters long" WHY???? I just don't understand how here in 2016, we're limited to 10 characters.

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VFP Undocumented functions/clauses
by Bill Anderson 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Folks, FWIW, I added a bunch of undocumented clauses and functions on the Fox Wiki pages (after the Wiki being offline for about 4 days). I'm just providing some more material for Ted's HackFox update ;) Bill Anderson --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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[NF] Just like VFP...
by Dave Crozier 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Well 12+ hours in from Brexit and the world hasn't ended and life seems to be carrying on much like before... in fact even the weather is the same i.e. Crap! As for VFP, been up and running on Windows 10 64 Bit now for a week and no problems to report at all apart from the fact that it runs much faster than on Windows 7 (same machine and memory). Only gripe is that Windows has automatically rebooted twice for updates (presumably) overnight as I put this as the preferred update time and subsequently reloaded my two USB security disks which were encrypted but with the wrong drive assignments and leaving them locked by Bitlocker. Hence my overnight backups haven't been successful - Hey Ho, Life goes on! Dave

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Southwest Fox/Xbase++ 2016: Super-saver deadline
by Rick Schummer 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

The countdown clock is ticking! The Super-Saver deadline for Southwest Fox and Southwest Xbase++ 2016 is June 30th, just a few days away. We still need people to register to make the conferences happen. The conferences take place September 22-25 in Gilbert, Arizona and we really hope you can be there. We would hate to see you miss out on the $125 discount, the FREE pre-conference session, and an opportunity to win a scholarship or a license of Stonefield Query SDK (a $6,000 value). After checking out our list of amazing speakers (http://www.swfox.net/speakers.aspx) and digging into our session tracks for VFP (http://www.swfox.net/sessionsswfox.aspx) and Xbase++ (http://www.swxbase.net/sessionsswxbase.aspx) head over to the registration Web site today: http://geekgatherings.com/Registration. Rick White Light Computing, Inc. www.whitelightcomputing.com

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Registry errors in Windows 10
by Graham Brown 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

Hi all I have several apps written in VFP8 with the Codemine8 framework, when the application runs it comes up with the initial registration screen normally not a problem just complete the screen fill in the path to local data and click finish. Windows 10 now throws up a message saying it can't find file appreg02. I've attempted to trace this through but cannot find anything. Has anyone come across the same error message please? Regards Graham --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

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VFP 9 FREAD/FWRITE Undocumented Limit
by Fernando D. Bozzo 27 Jun '16

27 Jun '16

While doing a low-level routine for copying data between files for showing advance, I've descovered something interesting: Documentation says that FREAD support 65536 bytes (64 KiB) max.length, but the limit in VFP 9 is really 16777184 bytes (16 MiB), iow, 256 more times! And another interesting thing is that this limit is the same of the max.size of a string variable: Maximum # of characters per character string or memory variable. 16,777,184 A "little" detail that the FoxTeam forgot to document. This should be added to VFPx FoxHelp File. Best Regards! Fernando D. Bozzo --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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