Microsoft FoxPro/FoxBase version information FoxBASE®/FoxPro® Versions FeaturesThis document lists brief descriptions of current and older MS-FoxBASE/FoxPro development tools for the PC, along with a brief list of features and notes. While you may find older versions of development tools in many places, links to the old/used programming tools sales pages of, this page's sponsor, are provided for your convenience. EMS is not affiliated with Microsoft or any other vendor. With the exception of terms described at the bottom of this page, all terms on this page are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. For technical questions, we recommend you ask on the usenet newsgroup. See alsoFoxBASE was developed by Dave Fulton and Bill Ferguson in December 1984 as a dBASE II substitute that ran with the speed of a fox.FoxBASE+ was released in 1986. Competitor for Ashton Tate's dBASE III.© 1989 - Includes the following materials:Three 3.5' disks labeled 'Program Disk revision 1.0', 'System Disk' and 'Help, Tutorial, Examples, Revision 1.0'.
All but System Disk marked '(c) Fox Software 1988'. System Disk '(c) Apple, 1983-1988'. Evaluation copies are marked with red stamp 'EVALUATION COPY, NOT FOR RESALE'Registration card. Evaluation copies are marked with red stamp 'EVALUATION COPY, NOT FOR RESALE'Activation Key, Evaluation copy is marked 'EVALUATION COPY NOT FOR RESALE'Manuals:Reference Guide, bookletReference, looseleaf, three ring, vinyl covered binderQuick Start/Tutorial, looseleaf, three ring, vinyl covered binder, © 1988 - Includes the following manuals:User's GuideQuick Start - TutorialFoxForm - FoxCodeRequirements: One 800K diskette drive and hard disk.
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Supprots LaserWriter and Image Writer printrs. Box top numbers 15, FMD078138Fox Software and Microsoft packaging for FoxBASE+ 2.01 for Macintosh. NFR copy is on far right.MS Part numbers:Full: 224-096V201FOXBASE+ 2.01 6 USER MAC (NONUSA): 224-196AV201FOXBASE+ 2.01 6-PACK MULTIUSER MAC: 224-196V201NFR: 224-596V201Single User - Label on box sleeve top reads 'FOXBASE+ 2.01 SINGLE USER MAC, 9090910, 224-096V201'. Box rear 1092 Part No. Box top label may read 'Restricted Version #19'. Includes two double density diskettes and the following printed materials:Registration card, 0393 Part No.
51296, Product number 224-096V201License card, 'FOXBASE+ 2.01 SINGLE USER MAC', 0691 Part No. 19427Training Centers list, 0692 Part No. 34160Serial number/Activation key card, 0692 Part No.
34171manuals:Commands & Functions, 34166User's Guide, 34165Reference Guide, 32 pages, 34168QuickStart, 34164Fox Report Forum, 34167FoxBASE+/LAN 2.1Probably includes three Microsoft labeled 720K disks starting with Disk Assy 224-195-002. Also four manuals from Fox Software:FoxBASE+ Reference Guide, 32 pages, © 1986, 1987, 1988 Fox Software, Inc.Commands & Functions, dated October 1988FoxView-FoxCode-FoxDoc, dated October 1988User's Guide, dated October 1988- Includes two 5.25' diskettes with Fox Software logo, Runtime Registration Card, Software License Agreement, 3.5' disk order information card, and Activation key form, all in vinyl folder.19891.02- Requires 512K RAM, MS/PC-DOS 2.0 or greater. FoxPro/LAN requires network software that supports NETBIOS interface and a hard disk drive on a network server.
Rick,this is what dBase III used before Fox Software introduced the TRANSFORM function! Did I get that right Tamar?Actually, no. No quite.dBASE III had @/SAY. PICTURE, but not?.
PICTURE.dBASE IV introduced? PICTURE, and one of the later versions of Foxbase (later than 2.10) copied it.Also, it was dBASE IV that introduced TRANSFORM.
Fox copied it in Foxbase 2.10.MikeMike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)My sites:RE: What is PICTURE '999999.99'? (Programmer) 23 Aug 05 18:05. Jim,You're probably right, although I can't think off-hand of any examples where Foxbase eliminated a dBASE bug. Do you know of any?I can think of examples of things that didn't work in dBASE and which Fox explicitly decided not to make work in Foxbase. This was especially true of ver. 2.10, which came out after Ashton-Tate had announced the features of dBASE IV.The best example is the Float data type.
AT announced it for dBASE IV, but never implemented it. You could declare a field as Float, but it ended up as an ordinary numeric. Foxbase did exactly the same. What's more, that's still the case in VFP 9.0.MikeMike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)My sites:RE: What is PICTURE '999999.99'? (Programmer) 24 Aug 05 09:02. Mike,No, I can't remember any specifically. But, at the Ashton-Tate Meeting of The Minds conference in LA, they invited Fox to the vendor exhibition thinking that Fox was just a compiler for DBase.
Dave offered to demonstrate how FoxBase could compile existing DBase code and have it run faster and faultlessly. He was really put out when he found code that worked in DBase didn't in Fox - all because the code dealt with known bugs in DBase that weren't there in Fox. I think it was mostly a matter of functions returning the opposite logical value from what help claimed they returned. It was hilarious!Regards,Jim RE: What is PICTURE '999999.99'? (Programmer) 24 Aug 05 10:08. Did anyone ever use DBaseII for CP/M on Dec Rainbow?I used dBaseII for CP/M on a Superbrain, a Xerox 820, and one or two others.The problem with the DEC Rainbow, as I recall, was its hard-sectored disk drives (that's floppy discs, of course). It was impossible to convert them to or from other formats through software, which made it a very unactractive platform.MikeMike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)My sites:RE: What is PICTURE '999999.99'?
(Programmer) 2 Dec 05 07:40. Mike,My first steps in CP/M were in 1985. Pretty sure for I used an MSX-machine holding also CP/M and MSXDOS as OS.But you might be right that dBII was retired those days. In fact it was quit exciting to use the 'professional' programs like wordstar, datastar and another xxxstar I forgot the name of and of course Multiplan.For the records a bit history:It was about 1978 that Mr.
Wayne Ratliff decided to create a program to help him fill in the 'toto'. One year later he had written 'Vulcan'. One year later again he met George Tate who made this 'invent' famous. 'Ashton'was just a fantasy 'marketing' name. The British magazine Practical Computing did write about dBase as belonging to the upper 10 of new facts in PC-world.Info taken from a Dutch book 'Manual for dBaseII CP/M written in 1983 by Pim Oets.-Bart RE: What is PICTURE '999999.99'? (Programmer) 2 Dec 05 11:16.