Need FoxPro for DOS

[Robert Baer]

If you have it, please contact me.
Thanks.

 

[CFoley1064]

Subject: Need FoxPro for DOS
From: Robert Baer robertbaer@earthlink.net
Date: 11/10/2004 1:50 AM Central Standard Time
Message-id: <4191C7CE.1C508CE5@earthlink.net

If you have it, please contact me.
Thanks.

If nobody contacts you, try:

http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msfox.htm

I've dealt with them -- they're a good outfit.

I once had a similar problem with a DOS dBase IV database with a former
employer -- it would slow way down and sometimes actually hang up, the database
was so large. They didn't want to spend the engineering time on redoing the
TSRs and drivers necessary to switch over to Windows (they had a Mitutoyo gauge
interface, and were using Software Wedge to read RS-232 from an old ohmmeter).
In order to buy time for them, I scrounged up an old backup I made when I was
still working there, and restored the old database to another directory. I
then used autoexec.bat to menu which directory to boot up in. Since they
actually ran batches of parts for mil-spec qualification, they could work
around their over-large database by running another one in parallel, just
ignoring the old data from the backup. This bought them some time, but they
still eventually had to redo.

Good luck
Chris

 

[Robert Baer]

CFoley1064 wrote:

Subject: Need FoxPro for DOS
From: Robert Baer robertbaer@earthlink.net
Date: 11/10/2004 1:50 AM Central Standard Time
Message-id: <4191C7CE.1C508CE5@earthlink.net

If you have it, please contact me.
Thanks.


If nobody contacts you, try:

http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/msfox.htm

I've dealt with them -- they're a good outfit.

I once had a similar problem with a DOS dBase IV database with a former
employer -- it would slow way down and sometimes actually hang up, the database
was so large. They didn't want to spend the engineering time on redoing the
TSRs and drivers necessary to switch over to Windows (they had a Mitutoyo gauge
interface, and were using Software Wedge to read RS-232 from an old ohmmeter).
In order to buy time for them, I scrounged up an old backup I made when I was
still working there, and restored the old database to another directory. I
then used autoexec.bat to menu which directory to boot up in. Since they
actually ran batches of parts for mil-spec qualification, they could work
around their over-large database by running another one in parallel, just
ignoring the old data from the backup. This bought them some time, but they
still eventually had to redo.

Good luck
Chris

Yes; i did think of partitioning the data: "full" and "2years".
Naturally, that requires a fancy routine to strip off the data added
to the "2years" files for appending to the "full" files.
Thanks for the reference; i will try it.