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Painless Legacy FoxPro Applications.
Title:
Painless Legacy FoxPro Applications.
Author:
Bourke, Alan.
ISBN:
9781930919556
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (87 pages)
Contents:
List of Chapters -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Chapter 1 Who This Book is for and What You Need to Bring -- Some things to keep in mind -- A brief history of FoxPro on the PC -- A brief overview of MS-DOS and Windows -- 16-bit and 32-bit operating systems -- The Windows API -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2 How Windows Runs FoxPro -- An overview of how MS-DOS and Win16 applications run in the Windows 95 kernel -- Windows core components -- User -- Graphical Device Interface (GDI) -- Kernel -- Other Components -- Virtual Machine Manager -- An overview of how MS-DOS and Win16 applications run in the Windows NT kernel -- Kernel Mode -- User Mode -- The MS-DOS NTVDM -- WOW-Win16 on Win32 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 Configuring FoxPro and Windows -- The AUTOEXEC and CONFIG files and what they do -- Editing the files in Windows 95/98 -- Editing the files in Windows ME -- Editing the files in Windows NT/2000/XP -- The AUTOEXEC.BAT/NT file -- The CONFIG.SYS/NT file -- What happens under Windows Millennium Edition? -- Environment variables and other AUTOEXEC.BAT items -- Settings in CONFIG.SYS -- The CONFIG.FP and CONFIG.FPW files -- MVCOUNT -- MEMLIMIT -- PROGWORK, EDITWORK, SORTWORK and TMPFILES -- FoxPro for DOS Memory Considerations -- FoxPro for Windows memory considerations -- MS-DOS Paths, SET PATH and SET DEFAULT -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Networks-How to Survive Them -- How FoxPro applications run "over a network" -- Problems with file access -- Opportunistic Locking -- Anti-virus software, data access, and speed problems -- Novell networks and clients -- Data corruption problems with the Novell Client -- UNC paths and the NET command -- How to determine computer name and shared resources -- How to map network drives and printers on Windows Networks -- The foolproof method.

How to map network drives and printers on Novell networks -- Methods for running networked FoxPro applications -- Network protocols -- NetBEUI -- Binding Order -- Common Miscellaneous Networking Problems -- The 'Unable To Process Error' error message -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Printers and How to Make Them See Things Your Way -- How FoxPro prints in general terms -- Printing to dot matrix printers in FoxPro for DOS -- Printing to dot matrix printers in FoxPro for Windows- using "Windows-Type Printing" -- Printing to dot matrix printers in FoxPro for Windows- using "DOS-Type Printing" -- Printing to laser/inkjet printers in FoxPro for DOS -- Printing to laser/inkjet printers in FoxPro for Windows- using "Windows-Type Printing" -- Printing to laser/inkjet printers in FoxPro for Windows- using "DOS-Type Printing" -- Other ways of printing from FoxPro -- Printing to serial devices -- The various types of printers and their suitability -- More network printing -- Miscellaneous printing issues -- Port problems and disappearing print jobs with shared printers under Windows NT/2000/XP -- Strange occurrences with early Hewlett-Packard PCL6 drivers -- Problems printing to LPT1 on Windows NT/2000/XP workstations -- Errors writing to LPT1, incomplete pages or printing does not start until an application is exited under Windows NT/2000/XP -- Novell NDPS printing -- Some real-world examples -- Example 1 -- Example 2 -- Example 3 -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6 Thin Client -- The Theory of thin client on Windows networks -- The history of thin client on Windows Networks -- FoxPro on thin client -- Server memory and CPU considerations -- FoxPro for Windows Screen Redraw Speed -- FoxPro for DOS CPU usage considerations -- Access to client devices -- Printing -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 Miscellany -- Error 15 (Not A Table/DBF) and Error 41 (Memo File Is Missing Or Invalid).

Problems caused by corruption of indexes or other files -- Watcom Win386 Read error -- Fatal Exception Errors in SYMEVNT -- Device Does Not Exist On Network error -- Problems Printing To LPT1 on Windows NT/2000/XP -- The Big One-Division By Zero Error In FOXW2600.ESL starting FoxPro for Windows on modern platforms -- "Cannot Read From Drive" or "Device I/O" errors -- Useful Resources -- Conclusion.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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