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Windows 10 Home and VFP9SP2 apps
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

VFP9SP2 apps work fine on Windows 10 HOME, right? I know they work fine on Win10 Professional but am double-checking the HOME version. tia, --Mike

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MariaDB limitation on memo fields -- caps out at 255
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 04 Mar '19

04 Mar '19

My VFP9SP2 app connects to my web database with no issue. My client wanted to host the database on his network there so I installed MariaDB there and everything seemed to fire up just fine. HOWEVER, there's a problem with the memo fields capping at length=255. Given that it works with a different (my web) MariaDB database, I'm sure this is a configuration issue. Question is: where do I find/set that? His network OS is Windows 2016 Server. My web database is using a Linux OS iirc. tia, --Mike

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ProFox List Statistics for February 2019
by List Administrator Account 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

================================================== ProFox List Statistics February 2019 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 292 ProFoxTech: 182 ================================================== Total Posts: 161 (Down 3.01% from January 2019) Total [OT] Posts: 9 (Up 350.0% from January 2019) Total [NF] Posts: 24 (Up 60.0% from January 2019) Daily Message Counts for February 2019 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- F 1 - 1 S 2 - 1 M 4 - 2 T 5 - 8 W 6 - 3 T 7 - 12 F 8 - 3 M 11 - 1 T 12 - 7 W 13 - 2 M 18 - 4 T 19 - 4 W 20 - 3 T 21 - 13 F 22 - 19 S 23 - 15 S 24 - 3 M 25 - 25 T 26 - 6 W 27 - 9 T 28 - 20 Message Counts By Day of Week for February 2019 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 3 Mon - 32 Tue - 25 Wed - 17 Thu - 45 Fri - 23 Sat - 16 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to January 2019) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 38 (Up 11.76%) OT messages: 7 (Up 250.0%) NF messages: 12 (Up 50.0%) Total number: 41 (Up 20.59%) Top 20 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 21 Tracy Pearson 2. 15 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 3. 12 Chris Davis 4. 9 Stephen Russell 5. 8 Paul Newton 6. 6 Richard Kaye 7. 6 Kurt @ Gmail 8. 6 Paul H. Tarver 9. 6 Alan Bourke 10. 6 Ted Roche 11. 4 Ken McGinnis 12. 4 Dave Crozier 13. 3 Eric Selje 14. 3 John Weller 15. 3 Kevin J Cully 16. 3 Peter Cushing 17. 3 <juergen(a)wondzinski.de> 18. 3 Charlie-gm 19. 2 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 20. 2 Koen Piller Top 7 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 2 50% Ed Leafe 2. 2 50% Kurt at VR-FX 3. 1 25% Charlie-gm 4. 1 100% Ivan Martinez 5. 1 33% Vince Teachout 6. 1 100% Michael Savage 7. 1 100% desmond.lloyd(a)gmail.com Top 12 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 5 Paul H. Tarver 2. 4 Stephen Russell 3. 3 Tracy Pearson 4. 2 Kevin J Cully 5. 2 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 6. 2 Alan Bourke 7. 1 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 8. 1 Johan Nel 9. 1 Ricardo Araoz 10. 1 <juergen(a)wondzinski.de> 11. 1 Frank Cazabon 12. 1 Kurt @ Gmail Top 20 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 21 Tracy Pearson 2. 15 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 3. 12 Chris Davis 4. 9 Stephen Russell 5. 8 Paul Newton 6. 6 Richard Kaye 7. 6 Kurt @ Gmail 8. 6 Paul H. Tarver 9. 6 Alan Bourke 10. 6 Ted Roche 11. 4 Kurt at VR-FX 12. 4 Ken McGinnis 13. 4 Dave Crozier 14. 4 Ed Leafe 15. 4 Charlie-gm 16. 3 Eric Selje 17. 3 Kevin J Cully 18. 3 John Weller 19. 3 Peter Cushing 20. 3 Vince Teachout Top 15 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 4 Tracy Pearson 2. 3 Chris Davis 3. 3 <juergen(a)wondzinski.de> 4. 3 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 5. 2 Stephen Russell 6. 2 Paul Newton 7. 2 Dave Crozier 8. 1 List Administrator Account 9. 1 Paul H. Tarver 10. 1 Ken McGinnis 11. 1 Ed Leafe 12. 1 Desmond Lloyd 13. 1 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 14. 1 Ted Roche 15. 1 Rick Schummer Top 20 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 16 false news.... 2. 11 SFTP 3. 11 Creating a copy of a database -- best practice? 4. 10 [NF] Migrating Skills From Foxpro to Xojo 5. 10 VFP application issues on new server 6. 10 Webfaction question 7. 9 Error building sort key (Error 2186) 8. 8 Trying to track down why an error is occurring 9. 7 Old VFP8 app on a Windows 7 computer suddenly fails 10. 6 [NF] Registering DLL's 11. 6 Foxite? 12. 6 MariaDB limitation on memo fields -- caps out at 255 13. 5 Silly VFP9 Issue.... 14. 5 Automating Exchange Calendar (and Outlook, possibly) 15. 4 [NF] Learn about Stored Procedures 16. 3 [NF] Change DVD Internal Player to 0 17. 3 FoxBin2Prg and DBF files 18. 3 Name your lnaguages. 19. 3 Parsing a JSON object 20. 3 Pipe Delimited Top 1 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 9 [OT] Nothing runs like the Fox Top 20 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 16 false news.... 2. 11 SFTP 3. 11 Creating a copy of a database -- best practice? 4. 10 [NF] Migrating Skills From Foxpro to Xojo 5. 10 VFP application issues on new server 6. 10 Webfaction question 7. 9 Error building sort key (Error 2186) 8. 9 [OT] Nothing runs like the Fox 9. 8 Trying to track down why an error is occurring 10. 7 Old VFP8 app on a Windows 7 computer suddenly fails 11. 6 [NF] Registering DLL's 12. 6 Foxite? 13. 6 MariaDB limitation on memo fields -- caps out at 255 14. 5 Silly VFP9 Issue.... 15. 5 Automating Exchange Calendar (and Outlook, possibly) 16. 4 [NF] Learn about Stored Procedures 17. 3 [NF] Change DVD Internal Player to 0 18. 3 FoxBin2Prg and DBF files 19. 3 Name your lnaguages. 20. 3 Parsing a JSON object

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Old VFP8 app on a Windows 7 computer suddenly fails
by Tracy Pearson 01 Mar '19

01 Mar '19

It won't start. AVG is installed. Here's the details from the Event Viewer message <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event"> - <System> <Provider Name="Application Popup" /> <EventID Qualifiers="16384">26</EventID> <Level>4</Level> <Task>0</Task> <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> <TimeCreated SystemTime="2019-02-28T16:46:35.000000000Z" /> <EventRecordID>907913</EventRecordID> <Channel>System</Channel> <Computer>Owner-PC</Computer> <Security /> </System> - <EventData> <Data>pcplus9.exe - Application Error</Data> <Data>The application was unable to start correctly (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application.</Data> </EventData> </Event> We are currently seeing if the customer will upgrade to our latest version which is running VFP 9. And uninstalling AVG. Any thoughts?

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VFP: false news....
by Dave Crozier 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

Ignorance and stupidity still runs in the so-called “expert consultant” fraternity. “An outdated software that is used by about 200 Vermont municipalities and the Vermont Tax Department has long contained flaws that exposed sensitive information including Social Security numbers, according to an IT consultant and the software company’s founder.” “You could make a strong case that Visual FoxPro shouldn’t be used on a government level,” Johnson said. https://vtdigger.org/2019/02/05/consultant-outdated-software-left-worker-in… Thankfully the software owners realise that it isn’t a fault in VFP, it is a fault in the designing of the infrastructure. Expert: Ex - Out of date Spurt – a drip under pressure!! Dave Crozier Software Development Manager Flexipol Packaging Ltd. ﴾⚆ᨎ⚆﴿ Flexipol® Packaging Ltd T 01706 222 792 E DCrozier(a)flexipol.co.uk W https://www.flexipol.co.uk/ Follow us: Unit 14 Bentwood Road, Carrs Industrial Estate, Haslingden, Lancashire, BB4 5HH This communication and the information it contains is intended for the person or organisation to whom it is addressed. Its contents are confidential and may be protected in law. If you have received this e-mail in error you must not copy, distribute or take any action in reliance on it. Unauthorised use, copying or disclosure of any of it may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone or email. Flexipol Packaging Ltd. has taken every reasonable precaution to minimise the risk of virus transmission through email and therefore any files sent via e-mail will have been checked for known viruses. However, you are advised to run your own virus check before opening any attachments received as Flexipol Packaging Ltd will not in any event accept any liability whatsoever once an e-mail and/or any attachment is received. It is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that they have adequate virus protection. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Terms & Conditions: Notwithstanding delivery and the passing of risk in the goods, the property in the goods shall not pass to the buyer until the seller Flexipol Packaging Ltd. ("The Company") has received in cash or cleared funds payment in full of the price of the goods and all other goods agreed to be sold by the seller to the buyer for which payment is then due. Until such time as the property in the goods passes to the buyer, the buyer shall hold the goods as the seller's fiduciary agent and bailee and keep the goods separate from those of the buyer and third parties and properly stored protected and insured and identified as the seller's property but shall be entitled to resell or use the goods in the ordinary course of its business. Until such time as the property in the goods passes to the buyer the seller shall be entitled at any time --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/related multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html image/jpeg image/jpeg image/png image/png image/png image/png ---

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[NF] Registering DLL's
by Tracy Pearson 27 Feb '19

27 Feb '19

I use INNOSetup for my installer. I install and register over 24 DLLs during this process. As of late, up to 5 DLLs are not registering. I have writing a program that starts RegSvr32 to register each of these DLLs manually. It isn't always the same 5 DLLs, but it is commonly 2 of them. Most machines just work. There have been more than 20 computers that haven't. Note: I have over 3000 install sites that might have multiple machines installed. One of our tech's remotes in, runs this special EXE as administrator and finds the ones that are not registering. Then starts an Administrative Command Prompt and manually calls the RegSvr32 to register them. Problem is solved. Does anyone have some idea why this failure happens? I feel like I can rule out Anti-Virus since manually running it allows it to register.

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[NF] Change DVD Internal Player to 0
by Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

I have Toshiba Internal Player in a Dell Inspiron 3650 running under WIN 10 64 bits I want to convert the Player to Region 0 Thank you Shai / שי Charles Hart Enzer, MD(Ohio, USA), FAACAP Aliyah: Cincinnati to Jerusalem's German Colony May, 2017 Volunteer Associate Professor of Psychiatry University of Cincinnati Medical Center WebSite: http://EnzerMD.com If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact -- not to be solved, but to be coped with over time -- Shimon Peres, Ninth President of Israel --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Re: false news....
by Gene Wirchenko 26 Feb '19

26 Feb '19

At 09:00 2019-02-25, Ted Roche <tedroche(a)gmail.com> wrote: >On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:38 AM Ed Leafe <ed(a)leafe.com> wrote: > > > They are presumably being used as PKs for tables representing humans, no? > > Then the vast majority of potential records would have null values, since > > most humans are not citizens of the USA. > >Ur either Muricans, or your not. ;) Maybe. I was a "US person" for the purposes of having a certificate of deposit. It meant US citizen or entitled to work in the USA. >But seriously, there are some non-citizens with SSNs, and citizens, >without. So, yeah, Matt's really sorry and promises not to do it again. Someone should make up a list "Lies Programmers Believe About Identifying Numbers". Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Trying to track down why an error is occurring
by Tracy Pearson 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

I recently pulled down Thor and am trying it out. On the two machines I have tried this on I get the same result. After opening the "Check for Updates" dialog, I can run updates or cancel them without a problem. Then I click on the background of _Screen. I get an error. I have SET COVERAGE TO c:\temp\testcoverage.csv I have written an errorcatcher.prg and set the ON ERROR do errorcatcher I have opened DEBUG and set Trace Between Calls If I type something in the Command window to throw an error, the error is caught. If I click on the white background, the error is not caught. Does anyone have another idea on how to capture this error? Microsoft Visual FoxPro OK Help Property 'cthordispatcher' value is too long. I've already posted the problem in the Thor Issue tracker. Doug Hennig was not able to reproduce it.

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[OT] Nothing runs like the Fox
by Ed Leafe 25 Feb '19

25 Feb '19

Ok, this is a stretch, but this past Monday I had my left knee replaced. It's a long story [0], but I got a kick out of the fact that my surgeon's name was Fox! [1] So while I'm not running like a Fox yet, I'm progressing better than I could have hoped for, and should be running within a few months. [0] https://blog.leafe.com/out-with-the-old/ [1] https://www.drfoxortho.com/ -- Ed Leafe

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