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BCNN subscribers opt for their user group of choice. Paragraph 0 automatically appears. Paragraph 1 appears first for non-participants. Participation will continue to be free of charge. Please wait until we distribute a list of participating user groups and ask you to select one. Each participating group emails a 30 line paragraph, by the last day of the month. Developers in every city can keep track of what's going on locally. User groups have a vehicle to reach people who don't normally come to their meetings. In October, BCNN pilot tests with Hartford, Connecticut and Stockholm, Sweden. If all goes well, we'll roll out other local groups as soon as paragraphs start coming in. More plans are being laid at the User Group President's meeting in Islandia at the end of this month. 1. Editorial: Visual Objects and the Developer's Future. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Les Squires Internet:BCNN@world.std.com CIS:73020,3435. You're a developer. You've created and now must support several dozen applications. Somewhere along the line you pushed libraries and reusable code to the limit. You realized long ago that applications have far more in common than not. But given the cacophony of programmers you've hired over the years, or even your own changing coding styles, reusability always seemed to be too elusive. At some point along the way it became your compulsion to STANDARDIZE. A screens is a screen. A pulldown is a pulldown. Table access is table access. File finds are file finds. The very last thing you want to do is to hire yet another programmer to take off in yet another direction. Standardize. ACROSS applications, ACROSS vendors, ACROSS types of tables, ACROSS Hardware platforms, ACROSS programmer styles, ACROSS business definitions. Reduce commonalties to a common platform, to a core, to a data dictionary, to shared respositories. To something. To anything. Just make sure that what is common to all applications is not mindlessly reinvented every time developers take up their keyboards. You know that one of your proudest days will be the day you know that your developers are focusing their attention on the RIGHT things, rather than continually reinventing. Then there's time for a decent living, a walk with the spouse, a pat on the dog. Oh, yes, don't forget multiple languages. The real coup d'etat would be to make the repository serve multiple languages. Something like replaceable database drivers (RDD's), you'd want 'replaceable application languages' (RAL's). Perhaps Clipper and Cobol and C++ programmers working on the same project. Who knows, you might even go out and buy a compiler company to master even better the techniques that span multiple applications, multiple operating systems, multiple hardware platforms, and the ever changing needs of your user base. The easy part would be coming up with a name for your in-house masterpiece. You'd probably call it something like 'Visual Objects'. Nice ring. You'd start by naming it VO for Clipper. But in the long run, if you really wanted to harness this engine you'd roll out a VO for C++ and a VO for Cobol and a VO for C. By that time everybody would be so familiar with RALs that nobody would care what language you were working in. And, you'd be happy. Editor's Note on Editor's Editorial. I saw a side of Computer Associates at Technicon, Orlando that I had never seen before. You could only buy a compile from Nantucket, but CA presently supports over 300 business applications in finance, accounting, project management, word processing, etc., etc. They are themselves developers! Ultimately, they face the same project development challenges we face, and to the extent that they solve their own internal development challenges, they solve ours. VO is central to CA's very survival, I've been told by key CA leaders. It might well be happen that in the future it will be mandatory that new CA products or product re-writes will be done in Visual Objects. dBFAST written in Clipper? CA-Money written in VO? CA-Paint, CA- Presents, CA-Textor? In VO! In that case, VO is hardly some trinket software to satisfy Clipperheads. Such an integerated development environment would, in my opinion, make VO the most important personal computer product that CA has ever designed. Perhaps the first in the industry. I'm thrilled to hear that many of those standing in line for the beginning of the Visual Objects beta test are actually CA employees, as anxious as you and I to get on with it. Personally, I came away from the Orlando conference thinking that we Clipperheads are are probably much more central to CA's software experiment than we could have ever believed. Suddenly I feel important again. 2. Report from Developers. Is CA-Clipper 5.2C Ready for prime time? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Darren Forcier [72117,1632] A frequent contributor to The Aquarium, a disk based monthly Clipper journal published by Grumpfish, Inc. (503-588-1815). Subject: 52Ready? Download: CompuServe, CLIPPER, Library 0, File 52CUS.EXE. The big burning question is, "Is CA-Clipper 5.2C ready for prime time?" My response is an unequivocal "Yes". I have taken the plunge and moved all of my projects over to 5.2C. Am I betting the farm (and my sanity) on this release? Yes and no. I still maintain the 5.01a release on a separate drive, including all the 5.01a compatible third party libraries. All my projects use a setup batch file which points my LIB, OBJ, and INCLUDE environment variables to the proper drive and directories depending on whether I want to work in 5.01a or 5.2C. I use Opus Make to control my system builds, and PVCS version control so I can snap version lines. CA- Clipper has grown up into a professional development tool and these tools are becoming increasingly more important to produce reliable systems. Moving my applications to 5.2C was a simple process of setting environment variables and doing some feverish testing top to bottom. I hedged my bets by using Exospace. Everything has held water, even with heavy use of GRUMPFISH 3.3, FlexFileII 2.0a, Provision:Windows 1.25, DBFSIX 1.2c FunckyII 2.01/2.02 (Exospace version), Nanforum Toolkit 2.1, PS Error 1.2, Class(y) 2.0b. Here is a checklist for Upgrading to 5.2: 1. Make sure you have updated CA-Clipper to the latest rev, 5.2C. Download 52CUS.EXE from Library 0 of the Clipper forum. 2. Make tape backups of your Clipper 5.01a and project directories. Don't burn any bridges. 3. Make absolutely sure that all of your third party libraries are up to date. Contact the vendor to obtain the latest patches, including Exospace compliant versions, if available. 4. If you use version control, snap a line across all of your source modules. 5. Use a good make utility. Recompile everything. 6. Use Exospace to to eliminate VMM problems, as Exospace replaces the VMM system entirely. 7. Test your system(s) vigorously, both at your site and in the customer's environment. Explain to your customer that you are upgrading to a new version of Clipper, and that some testing will be required, but the application will run much faster (assuming you are using Exospace) and have better memory performance. If you find any anomalies contact CA and report them immediately. We are living in exciting times. Things have changed! Don't assume that 5.2C isn't working, port your application and try it out! Our livelihoods depend on it. We can't afford to stand still for a minute. 3. BCS September Meeting: The Clipper 5.2C Patch. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Pat Tormey [72217,3014] Topic: The Clipper 5.2C Patch: Don't Leave the Meeting without It! Date: September 21, 1993, 6:30 p.m. Place: 128 Entrepreneurs Center, 200 Fifth Avenue, Waltham, Mass USA. 6:00 Beginners Q & A Session (What is Clipper? What is tBrowse?) 7:00 Technical Discussion (Darren Forcier, Pat Tormey) Technical discussions focus on the recent update Clipper 5.2C, featuring an introduction to the concepts of Replaceable Data Drivers. It's our turn to discover what they can do for our clients. Bring your questions and we'll work out solutions together. The meeting will end with a general discussion of Clipper news of recent months, including the recent Technicon. Bring a 3.5 disk. The 5.2C patch will be available. October Meeting: Tuesday, October 18, 1993, 6:30, will be devoted to Introductory and Intermediate Clipper programming (Getting Started, Code Blocks, Pre-Processor and TBrowse). If you are ready to take 5.X out of the box , you must attend. 4. Orlando, Technicon Insights Due by September 15, 1993. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Les Squires Internet:BCNN@world.std.com CIS:73020,3435. Nearly 20 Orlandoneons have sent in their technical notes from the Technicon. Many are of the caliber of Mike Herrick [100116,444] who made the following sample observation: Session 1062R - Programming in VO ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Porting a clipper application to VO may be possible with very few changes to 5.x source. Straight away this should give a better looking application, but a top-notch windows application needs to be designed afresh. In general, a VO application merely creates a shell window, displays it, then starts the ball rolling by passing control to the event handler. The flow of control in the application is determined by the event and message traffic, NOT by function calls. Send your notes to CIS 73020,3435. BCNN has received an inquiry from a major publication interested in reprinting the report. We'll be distributing the emails to our editors shortly after that. 5. Two Upcoming Developer Polls: Clipper 5.2C and ExoSpace ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Les Squires Internet:BCNN@world.std.com CIS:73020,3435. Are you using 5.2C now? Are you using ExoSpace? We'd like to hear your comments. A brief paragraph or two. How's it working? Are you pleased? BCNN will use your anecdotal replies to help formulate a developer poll later this fall. 6. New Development Opportunities: INTERNET on Cable TV: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Pat Tormey [72217,3014] FourSquare Solutions Inc. ReplyTo: Les Squires Internet:BCNN@world.std.com CIS:73020,3435. Recently a cable TV carrier in New Hampshire (a small, rural state in the USA) announced that it will soon begin providing access to Internet in addition to its regular cable television services. So, what could this possibly mean for Clipper developers? This breakthrough in communications means that everybody's television becomes something of a workstation! Have you television call my television . The question is how soon we developers can attach keyboards and our Clipper applications to everybody's televisions. Imagine sitting at your Pentium-driven television watching the 6:00 news in one window, downloading CIS-Clipper email in another window, and sending off a draft of your new article to the BCNN in a third! Let's just look at a few of the the concepts. Modems convert high speed digital signals DOWNWARD to voice range frequencies to trick the phone equipment (the screeching you hear on the line). It is also the limiting factor for computers to talk to each other. Cable TV service "talks" to equipment at RADIO frequencies, allowing fast transfer of video data. Tonight, as you watch your TV, think about what you could do if your computer had that access speed to every computer/television on similar cable links. Start designing your new Clipper application for the mass market, or start hooking up your clients worldwide to their sources of business. We'll compare notes in a couple of years. 7. Follow-up on Donations to CINSU for Russian Students. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Kathy M. Kelly, U.S. Rep >INTERNET:bcnn@world.std.com ReplyTo: Nickolay A. Sychov, President >INTERNET:ofs@vki.nsk.su College of Informatics of phone: (383-2) 35-69-31 Novosibirsk State University (CINSU) 35-22-58 35, Russkaya Street, telefax: (383-2) 35-52-37 630058, Novosibirsk, telex: 133146 TEVUS SU Russia E-mail: ofs @ vki.nsk.su Last month's BCNN invited developers to assist 13-15 year old Russian students at the College of Informatics of Novosibirsk State University (CINSU) to learn about computers. CINSU is setting up two courses: TO GET ACQUAINTED WITH COMPUTER and I AM A PROGRAMMER. You were invited to 'adopt a programmer' by donating $90 or $180, respectively, to support a student in either course. CINSU will give you detailed information about the student you sponsor. One glitch. Kathy Kelly soon discovered that sending money to Russia costs $40 per transaction. To cut down on such overhead, the Boston Computer Society has established a bank account to collect donations from people in the U. S. The BCS Xbase Group will forward all moneys in two or three money transfers to CINSU. If you wish to help some students from Russia, make your check out to 'Boston Computer Society/Xbase Group'. Note on it that it's for Russia Computer Education. Any size contribution is welcome. Be sure to include your name, organization, address, telephone number, an indication of which course you want to support. BCNN will create a sponsor list and give this information to the pupil you sponsor. Mail to : Russia Computer Education Fund, Boston Computer Society, c/o Kathy Kelly, P.O. Box 126, Center Harbor, NH 03226-0126 USA. 8. Wanted: Volunteer to Create a Periodicals Roundup. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Les Squires Internet:BCNN@world.std.com CIS:73020,3435. Clipper Advisor, Clipperama, Aquarium, Database Advisor, and Reference Clipper. Would you like to take on the job of contacting each of these magazines to write up a short BCNN article on the 'must look at' publications? 9. CompuServe 14400 Baud Access Numbers (c) CompuServe ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: GO PHONES on CompuServe CompuServe now offers 14,400-bps access capability. This service will be offered in other U.S. locations within the next year, and will eventually be extended to Europe. Pricing for 14,400-bps access is the same as for 9,600 bps: $16 per hour for Standard Pricing Plan members, and $22.80 per hour for Alternative Pricing Plan members. 14,400 bps service supports V.42 error correction and requires a V.32bis modem. To log on at 14,400 bps using the CompuServe Information Manager, enter the Session Settings and change the bps rate to either 14,400 or 19,200. If you have problems logging on, change the modem type to the Hayes Compatible (default) setting. ST CITY AC PHONE # MODEM -- ---- --- -------- --------- CA Los Angeles 213 623-7486 V32/BIS CA Newport Beach 714 263-0244 V32/BIS CA Santa Clara 408 980-1044 V32/BIS FL Orlando 407 894-0199 V32/BIS IL Chicago 312 857-0008 V32/BIS MA Cambridge 617 576-0013 V32/BIS NJ Rochelle Park 201 712-0479 V32/BIS NY New York 212 755-9080 V32/BIS OH Columbus 614 764-2957 V32/BIS OH CompuServe 800 800 544-3095 V32/BIS PA Philadelphia 215 665-0360 V32/BIS 10. Developer Activity: Advantage Xbase Server from Extend Systems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Steve Wishengrad [73234,2301] I am in the process of evaluating the Advantage Xbase Server from Extended Systems. So far it has passed the compile and run test. It appears that my data entry screens that access several file come up faster than without the server. They are working on making indexing faster. The work around is to use their ExtendBase library for indexing. They're also working on making ExtendBase compatible with the Advantage RDD. They're working on making the Advantage product Protected Mode Compliant (ExoSpace). I was told by Mark Larimer at Extended Systems that this was their highest development priority and that they expected a maintenance release to be available within 1-3 months. I'll let you know when I've done more thorough testing on the Xbase server. Please share your own experiences. 11. CLIPPER->(Sep 93 Disk) Contents * $$ * ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Dan Comeau [70451,2312] DanlWare Systems Corp. 208-82 Armstrong Crt. Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3M 4M6, CANADA CompuServe [70451,2312] InterNet 70451.2312@compuserve.com Voice & Fax 902/443-2207 52CAPI.EXE Clipper 5.2C API patch 52CUS.EXE Clipper 5.2C patch. Updates 5.2, 5.2a, & 5.2b to 5.2C ATEDIT.ZIP Source code for a simple FoxPro-like @..EDIT in Clipper BCNN9308.ZIP Boston Computer News Network Clipper Newsletter for Aug/93 C52TN1.TXT Clipper 5.2 Tech Notes (#1) as of 1 Jun 93 CCCHEK.ZIP CCCheck() Checks credit card number against check digit EXOSPACE.TXT Press release: CA-Clipper/ExoSpace FILLTB.ZIP Fills TBrowse display keeping cursor on current record INIT.THD Edited Clipper forum discussion on 5.2 INIT/EXIT procs. MEMACC.ZIP Memory Access: Timings of different Clipper 5.xx memvars MEMFUN.ZIP MEMOEDIT() with line limitations MEMOGE.ZIP 'GET' memo fields: @SAY..GET..AS MEMO NEDESC.ZIP Netto v1.1 - Function listing NETTOL.ZIP Netto v1.1 - Library and Documentation NETTOS.ZIP Netto v1.1 - Source code and master makefile NFLIB.ZIP Nanforum Toolkit v2.1 + patches -- Library and documentation NFSRC.ZIP Nanforum Toolkit v2.1 + patches -- Source code & makefile PATCH.EXE PocketSoft RTPatch Version 1.12. Needed to patch Clipper. VO-QA.TXT CA-Visual Objects for Clipper Q&A Sheet VOBETA.TXT Press release: CA-Visual Objects for Clipper is in Beta ORDERFRM.TXT Order form for the CLIPPER->(Disk of the Month). UNZIP.EXE UnZip 5.0. Use this to unZIP the *.ZIP files. README.TXT Detailed description of the files on this month's disk. 12. Reposting/Reprinting of BCNN on Local Bulletin Boards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Chris Pels [73777,3562] All materials are copyrighted by the BCS, unless otherwise indicated, and free for any user group to redistribute on their own BBS on the condition that a by-line referencing the BCS is included. '(c) Boston Computer Society BCNN. Free, monthly email newsletter for Clipper Developers. CompuServe 73020,3435 to subscribe.' 13. New Files on CompuServe (c) CompuServe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ReplyTo: Steve Silverwood [CA Sysop] 76703,3035. Forum Administrator. Filename Size Date Description ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Library 0: Browse Me First! VOBETA.TXT 6K 23-Aug-93 Press release: CA-Visual Objects is in Beta VO-QA.TXT 6K 23-Aug-93 CA-Visual Objects Q&A Sheet PATCH.EXE 77K 23-Aug-93 Patch.EXE: needed to apply CA-Clipper updates 3PCERT.TXT 4K 23-Aug-93 Press release: 3rd Party Product Certification 52CUS.TXT 17K 20-Aug-93 Instructions for 52CUS.EXE patch file 52CUS.EXE 387K 20-Aug-93 Clipper Patch: 5.20/5.2a/5.2b->5.2C CWCLIP.CNF 26K 20-Aug-93 Transcript of conf. w/Charles Wang 8/18/93 52CI.TXT 17K 19-Aug-93 Instructions for 52CI.EXE Patch File 52CI.EXE 489K 19-Aug-93 International CA-Clipper Patch 5.20/5.2a/5.2b Library 1: General Files INSTAL. 12K 27-Aug-93 Install de-archived files on hard disk from arch X3J19.ZIP 5K 24-Aug-93 Xbase Standard: How to make proposals TAGS.ZIP 22K 23-Aug-93 CIDEX TAGS (Rel 2) Editing Productivity Tool. Library 2: CA-Clipper Prog. DGROUP.ZIP 9K 25-Aug-93 A discussion of DGROUP and UE 667-669 STATWN.ZIP 7K 24-Aug-93 StatWin - Display Status Window in your Apps. IM21.EXE 351K 23-Aug-93 Image2 screen editor for Xbase languages PROPER.TXT 2K 16-Aug-93 PROPER() Clipper5.X Func to form proper names. Library 3: CA-Clipper & LANs DISKAL.EXE 108K 23-Aug-93 Disk Alert Version 1.07 Library 4: CA-Clipper APIs GLIDE1.EXE 422K 24-Aug-93 The Glide - Generic Language IDE GTGRPH.ZIP 5K 23-Aug-93 Graphical Terminal 0.2 A.Linares Library 5: Nanforum Toolkit NFPAT9.ZIP 3K 18-Aug-93 Nanforum Toolkit v2.1 - Patch #9 (8/17/93) NFORX.ZIP 5K 18-Aug-93 Nanforum Toolkit v2.1 - ExoSpace Kit v1.1 Library 7: 3rd Party Products NCCDEM.ZIP 163K 27-Aug-93 NccDemo EXE LOGTEX.ZIP 599K 25-Aug-93 LOGTIME TIME BILLING GENSYS SHAREWARE EXOSPACE LOGTBL.ZIP 540K 25-Aug-93 LOGTIME TIME BILLING GENSYS SHARWARE BLINKER SCHNEW.TXT 2K 23-Aug-93 SCHOONER COMPETITIVE UPGRADE OFFER GFSPEL.EXE 223K 23-Aug-93 Grumpfish Speller Demo, Quick and Easy EXO10C.ZIP 240K 23-Aug-93 ExoSpace 1.0C patch file SCRUTI.TXT 22K 22-Aug-93 Press Release! New Debugging Tool! SCRUTI.EXE 461K 22-Aug-93 Updated Scruti.EXE Demo NPYDMO.ZIP 296K 19-Aug-93 Nappy for Clipper Demo - Print using MS Windows PROLIX.EXE 404K 18-Aug-93 Prolixity 2.0 Spell Checking Demo DOC310.ZIP 118K 18-Aug-93 DOC Vers. 3.10 Source Code Documentor Clipper POSPIN.DOC 11K 16-Aug-93 Point of Sale Plus GETDEM.EXE 285K 16-Aug-93 FastGet - Full-blown mouse-driven menu system FUNKYP.EXE 246K 16-Aug-93 Protected Mode version of FUNCky (preliminary) FDEM02.ZIP 2K 16-Aug-93 Carousel of Dbf Browsers using Frankie Lib FASTDE.EXE 240K 16-Aug-93 FasTBrowse - Clipper 5 TBrowse Code Generator Library 11: CA TechnniCons TC93NG.ZIP 42K 18-Aug-93 CA-TechniCon '93 Sessions (NG) TC93.ZIP 22K 18-Aug-93 CA-TechniCon '93 Session List Library 13: Developers/Jobs HELPJA. 1K 19-Aug-93 PROGRAMMER NEEDED S87 Library 15: CA-Clipper/ExoSpace EXO.TXT 4K 18-Aug-93 Press release: CA-Clipper/ExoSpace 14. 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