Hello David,
     I went to the UniForum '97 conference this week. It was rather
disappointing, nothing new that was very interesting. Lucent Technologies
made a very aggressive appearance, which surprised me. They are only now
marketing some powerful UNIX System Management utilities from Bell Labs.
What I noticed most was the large number of UNIX Application vendors
saying things like "Of course we support NT also.", when no one had asked.
It seemed very sad, none of them seem to get it, if everything runs on NT,
who needs UNIX?
     While providing much lip service in the press about Open Systems,
it appeared that both DEC and IBM still refuse to support the 64bit UNIX
standard. This effectively divides the market in 3, making it that much
easier for Microsoft to conquer.
     I learned one good thing in a seminar. The 3.5.2 UNIX Advanced File
Server(next week) now supports Long File Names w/ W95 & NT. So a UNIX WS
can browse files and see them in 8.3 format on DOS, Mac, Win 3.1,
WFW 3.11, and in either 8.3 and/or LFN form on W95 and NT boxes and vice
versa. Files on a UNIX box look like natives to all the other platforms!
FoxPro DOS/Win should be able to read a file from such in unmodfied form.
     I walked back the long way home, and stopped in Stacy's book store,
which they say is the biggest Technical one west of Chicago. I got
lucky, I finally got to take a gander at Savannah Brentnall's VFP OOP book
(that Super Dave gives very high marks). Oh yes, You were not pulling
our legs, She is pretty, and I think she knows it, else why the picture
on page 1. I was fascinated to learn that she was the Technical Product
Manager for Clipper and then the Evangelist for VO. Her defection is
quite a major coup de tat for VFP. At $19, well that seems to me like
Abber like pricing!
                                                   He He He Haw,
                                                   den
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