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echo: foxpro
to: KA`RLIS GOBLEJA
from: CY WELCH
date: 1997-02-21 16:47:00
subject: YEAR 2000

Hello Ka'rlis!
Wednesday January 08 1997 08:56, Ka'rlis Gobleja wrote to Gilles Beauregard:
 GB>> Foxpro designer has only to add a new feature. ASSUME NEXT
 GB>> CENTURY.
 GB>> When you are near the end or the beginning of the century, you
 GB>> must ASSUME the next of the precedent century, that it's.
 GB>> Probably not a big feature to implement into Foxpro or other
 GB>> language.
 KG> I read in one FOXPRO conerence that VFP5 now has the following syntax:
 KG> SET CENTURY ON | OFF | TO [nCentury [ROLLOVER nYear]]
 KG> I can't to check it out because I have only FPD26a, but I think that
 KG> this is exactly what you mean. And I'm sure that it will never appear
 KG> in old FOXPRO versions.
Your right, it IS in there.  But what many don't realize, is to move to VFP5 
is going to require moving your clients to Win95 or WinNT.  Also its gonna 
take rewriting your apps as well.
Cy
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