Re: [ADMIN] Email issue

2024-04-25 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:34 PM Kurt Wendt wrote: > > Yeah - GMail has been tossing a BUNCH of the recent ProFox emails into my > SPAM. I have keep trying to say it's not Spam - as I've done it a lot in... Same here, also a Gmail user. It seemed that the mail filter "Never send it to Spam" was

Re: Fox.wikis.com

2023-07-20 Thread Man-wai Chang
Turn on read-only or reader mode at least... nothing will be written to FoxWiki then and no extra harm can be done.. On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 5:03 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > > That's a real shame that it's still down. http://fox.wikis.com/ -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision.

Re: HTTPS GET using Winsock

2023-04-05 Thread Man-wai Chang
; HTH, > Tracy > > -Original Message----- > From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Man-wai > Chang > Sent: Monday, April 03, 2023 7:48 AM > To: profoxt...@leafe.com > Subject: HTTPS GET using Winsock > > Are there free Visual Foxp

Re: HTTPS GET using Winsock

2023-04-05 Thread Man-wai Chang
I suppose I could do more using Winsock, maybe in the future... :) On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 9:58 PM Alan Bourke wrote: > > Via Winsock specifically ? Why complicate it? > > > > -- > Alan Bourke > alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm > [excessive quoting removed by server]

HTTPS GET using Winsock

2023-04-03 Thread Man-wai Chang
Are there free Visual Foxpro source codes that do HTTPS GET via Winsock? The following example does non-SSL HTTP GET: Win32API/sample_383.md at master · VFPX/Win32API · GitHub Winsock: retrieving Web pages using sockets (HTTP, port 80) Retrieved data is stored in a Memo field of a cursor

Error instantiating class when opening a form

2023-03-18 Thread Man-wai Chang
I had a form without the class lib. Could I force open the form ignoring the class instantiation error? Other than opening the form.scx, delete those references and pack it ... :) -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ https://github.com/changmw/changmw /( _ )\

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

2023-03-11 Thread Man-wai Chang
Just saw following old post from West Wind: ChatGpt and VFP - West Wind Technologies Support Jan 10, 2023 https://support.west-wind.com/Thread6IR0SAABQ.wwt I am wondering whch human programmer wrote that function... :) On Thu, Feb 9, 2023 at 1:29 AM Alan Bourke wrote: > > > If ChatGPT could

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

2023-02-08 Thread Man-wai Chang
How about asking ChatGPT to convert VFP codes into Python codes, maybe Dabo? :) If ChatGPT could understand Python, it should not be too hard for it to understand Visual Foxpro. and maybe Clipper and dBase. On Wed, Feb 8, 2023 at 1:54 AM Kurt @ Gmail wrote: > > I will say, since Python is a

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

2023-02-07 Thread Man-wai Chang
A.I. could indeed be the next dot-Com bubble, after crypto-currencies ... :) On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 3:59 PM Alan Bourke wrote: > > It will churn out something that looks vaguely passable, but it is all smoke > and mirrors. There is no 'I' involved. It's a fancy search engine. > -- .~.

Re: Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

2023-02-04 Thread Man-wai Chang
Not that, but calling OpenAI from Visual Foxpro. Does OpenAI have an ODBC bridge/driver? :) I will NOT be amazed if ChatGPT could control a Boston Dynamics robot to use a PC via keyboard to write dBase programs by copying codes found via Google Search! Well... On Sat, Feb 4, 2023 at 11:19 AM

Using OpenAI like ChatGPT?

2023-02-03 Thread Man-wai Chang
I am just wondering whether Visual Foxpro could make use of OpenAI like ChatGPT :) I don't have any purpose nor objective in mind. -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Fedora 35 Server Spin /( _ )\ http://sites.google.com/site/changmw ^ ^ May the Force and farces be with

Re: Small Report/Label Designs

2023-01-13 Thread Man-wai Chang
Foxpro's report writer has dimensions. It will be easier if printer-friendly labels are available. In the worst case, use PDF format? :) On Thu, Jan 12, 2023 at 9:19 PM Chris Davis wrote: > > Anyone got any tips for working easier on small label designs? > -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision.

Re: fox.wikis.com

2022-10-09 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Thu, Oct 6, 2022 at 10:06 PM Ted Roche wrote: > > Wiki is read-write. > Read-only Wiki just text. > Is it still Wiki? Until the problem was fixed, no harm setting the whole wiki read-only. Just explain it in the index.html. > > / v \ 64-bit Fedora 25 Server Spin > > That's a dangerously

Re: fox.wikis.com

2022-10-06 Thread Man-wai Chang
That's just a backup, which might disappear some days. Is it really impossible to set fox.wikis.com read-only blocking all writers? On Fri, Sep 30, 2022 at 2:36 AM Eric Selje wrote: > > FWIW, you can go to archive.org and type fox.wikis.com and it will show you > archived versions of the pages.

Re: fox.wikis.com

2022-09-29 Thread Man-wai Chang
Just set the whole website read-only? At least people can still read the wikis. On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 4:50 PM Jürgen Wondzinski wrote: > > See here: https://twitter.com/rschummer/status/1568592684910088195 > > That thread references stupid discussions similar to this one: >

Re: Rude Words

2022-03-13 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 2:07 AM Paul Hill wrote: > > Hi All, > > Something odd happened today at work. Not really Fox related. > ... > In the cache folder a file called passwords.txt contains 30,000 > passwords which are clearly the most common passwords (123456, > password, etc). It also

Re: [NF] Microsoft wrongly blocking lots of emails

2022-01-16 Thread Man-wai Chang
Another one Microsoft: KB5008212 Windows security update breaks Outlook search https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-kb5008212-windows-security-update-breaks-outlook-search/ On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 4:28 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > > Anybody else experiencing

Re: [NF] Microsoft wrongly blocking lots of emails

2022-01-16 Thread Man-wai Chang
Another one not related to mail servers, I suppose... :) Microsoft pulls problematic Windows updates that break Hyper-V and more https://betanews.com/2022/01/14/microsoft-pulls-problematic-windows-updates-that-break-hyper-v-and-more/ On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 4:28 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC

Re: CABuilder Revisited

2022-01-16 Thread Man-wai Chang
Knowing nothing about CABuilder: I would just trace variables _browser and lcClassList in the source codes and hopefully something could be found it looked like it's trying to bring up the web browser? Or was _browser a form? Well :) On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 12:29 AM Graham Brown wrote:

Re: [NF] Microsoft wrongly blocking lots of emails

2022-01-13 Thread Man-wai Chang
One more problem heard today :) Windows Server: January 2022 security updates are causing DC boot loop | Born's Tech and Windows World https://borncity.com/win/2022/01/12/windows-server-januar-2022-sicherheitsupdates-verursachen-boot-schleife/ On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 4:28 AM MB Software

Re: [NF]Help desk and language skills

2022-01-08 Thread Man-wai Chang
The problem is out-sourcing and down-sizing, the lowest price won, which meant lower language skills and less smart. That help desk person might be following a stupid A.I. the stupid way as well. :) "Global village" meant you need to deal with people whose mother tongue was not English, as well

Re: [NF] Microsoft wrongly blocking lots of emails

2022-01-06 Thread Man-wai Chang
Could it be the Microso$t Exchange bug that was triggered on 01 Jan 2022? On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 4:28 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > > Anybody else experiencing errors like this trying to email folks who use > Office 365 as their email provider? > > Access denied, banned

Re: For all of you Forms guys...

2021-11-19 Thread Man-wai Chang
Using Visual Foxpro 9? I thought VFP could only use Form 2.0? On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 4:02 AM Stephen Russell wrote: > > Major improvements in the Forms side of .NET. > > https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/whats-new-in-windows-forms-in-net-6-0/ > > I haven't done a forms based app for others

Re: [NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer

2021-09-26 Thread Man-wai Chang
The whole SMB1/WSDD thing is all about the workground browser. You should always be able to access shares by fully qualified IP address or name(e.g. \\1.2.3.4\share). On Sun, Sep 26, 2021 at 4:32 AM wrote: > > Thanks Man-wai > > I will definitely follow up on your suggestion if/when I am working

Re: [NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer

2021-09-25 Thread Man-wai Chang
If your NAS OS had WSDD, you could avoid using SMB1. (My router is running DD-WRT with ksmbd and WSDD2) Samba 4, shares, wsdd and Windows 10 – how to list Linux Samba servers in the Win 10 Explorer | Linux-Blog – Dr. Mönchmeyer / anracon – Augsburg

Re: [NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer

2021-09-24 Thread Man-wai Chang
Maybe you forgot what you did... :) On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:59 PM Jan Bucek wrote: > > Very strange for me. I have a small home network - laptop and PCs with > WinXP, Win7ultimate, Win10home, Win10enterprise and Linux/Xubuntu and > everything marked as "public" is visible and usable without

Re: [NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer

2021-09-24 Thread Man-wai Chang
If all PCs in the network were Win 8/10, then you could disable SMB1. I forgot whether Win 7 needed SMB1. You might also try enabling all Function Discovery services in all PCs without enabling SMB1. On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 11:36 PM wrote: > > I tried everything there without success. I'm at

Re: [NF] Windows 10 Home networking and Explorer

2021-09-21 Thread Man-wai Chang
A wild guess: dfid you enable SMB 1.0 support in all Win 10 PCs including that laptop? On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 11:10 PM wrote: > > Virgin Hub 3 connected via cable to > > DesktopPC, Laptop, US robotics Mini NAS adapter and Netgear Powerline > adapter > > > > I have an external drive

Re: Disappearing pop-up windows (like the Find window dialog in Code References, and sometimes the entire Debug window)

2021-08-10 Thread Man-wai Chang
I think I had a script that reset all screen-related settings, just in case ... :) This problem can happen to single monitor setup. On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 7:57 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > > VFP9SP2 Win10Pro Dell Latitude 3400 and my favorite color today is red. > > Has anyone come

Re: Windows 11???

2021-07-21 Thread Man-wai Chang
Recent motherboards support firmware-based TPM (fTPM). You only need to enable it in the BIOS to install Win 11. I forgot whether it's CPU firmware or chipset firmware. :) On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 10:28 AM Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > > This TPM - isn't it a chip based thing in Intel machines for

Re: PDF printing on WINE & Win98

2021-07-02 Thread Man-wai Chang
printing - How do I print to PDF from wine? - Ask Ubuntu https://askubuntu.com/questions/234336/how-do-i-print-to-pdf-from-wine Other Google results: https://www.google.com/search?q=linux+wine+pdf+creator On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 6:14 PM Jürgen Wondzinski wrote: > > Ok, now it's my turn for a

Re: FoxPro 2.6 for Windows App

2021-06-25 Thread Man-wai Chang
Foxpro for WIndows is a 16-bit program, if I remember correctly. 64-bit Windows have dropped support for 16-bit apps. That's why your client is using 32-bit Windows to run that old 16-bit program. I think you could use 64-bit virtual machines to run old 16-bit programs. There are also tools like

Re: Problem with APPEND FROM TYPE DELIMITED

2020-11-23 Thread Man-wai Chang
What's the structure of your DBF, notably the definition of the 58th field? On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 9:14 PM Paul Newton wrote: > > I have a CSV file (MyFile.CSV) with a single line that looks like this: >

Re: [NF] Missing codec - This item was encoded in a format that's not supported

2020-11-18 Thread Man-wai Chang
I am using LAV Filters for virtually all videos: https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/releases And there is an old websitehttp://www.free-codecs.com On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 7:52 PM Paul Newton wrote: > > Hi all > > I have a number of AVIs which I recorded for training purposes a long time

Re: [NF] Messed up Desktop WIN 10

2020-11-08 Thread Man-wai Chang
Did you move the location of both Desktop and Download to the same folder. First, fix their locations by right-click their Properties, then move the files! On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 9:03 PM Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: > > "Desktop" contains all "Downloads"plus 11 more items. How to remove all

Re: Bizarre scenario solved by READWRITE clause on end of SELECT SQL (SOLVED)

2020-06-30 Thread Man-wai Chang
That sounds more like a program bug then... :) That app I was talking about didn't use database container, all DBFs. And no triggers. On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 2:11 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > > How does that have anything to do with the price of tea in China? lol > > It wasn't that

Re: Bizarre scenario solved by READWRITE clause on end of SELECT SQL (SOLVED)

2020-06-26 Thread Man-wai Chang
Maybe your server should reindex all DBFs every night after office hours! That's what an 10-year-old FoxPro/DOS MIS system I used to maintain was doing :) On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 10:33 AM MB Software Solutions, LLC wrote: > > MYSTERY SOLVED! IT *WAS* THE DELETED INDEX THAT CAUSED THE CHANGE

Re: File Sync

2019-11-21 Thread Man-wai Chang
Google Search is your A.I. friend! Keywords like "robocopy example" and "robocopy backup script" should do! :) Someone posted a Micro$oft link anyway. On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 6:57 AM Koen Piller wrote: > > Where can I find the Helpfile for RoboCopy? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY!

Re: File Sync

2019-11-20 Thread Man-wai Chang
Do not forget about ROBOCOPY that comes with Window$. robocopy source target /l /mt:1 /a-:sh /mir /xjd On Wed, Nov 20, 2019 at 11:39 PM Chris Davis wrote: > > Can anyone recommend a free and simple file syncing program to mirror a > folder on a server to a local folder (files and subfolders).

Re: Odd Error Message

2019-06-28 Thread Man-wai Chang
Disk I/O errors should always be logged, including secret folders. If you were not allowed to log that error, better leave the company before the errors hurt your reputation and career. Find a regular job that's normal. :) On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:57 AM Tracy Pearson wrote: > > Once had a

Re: Odd Error Message

2019-06-28 Thread Man-wai Chang
I would always exercise caution in all file i/o codes and walk that distance!! I would argue with my boss about that extra distance. Anyway, the problem might bite you again, or someone in place of you. Good luck then! :) On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:38 AM Fletcher Johnson wrote: > > We did have a

Re: Odd Error Message

2019-06-27 Thread Man-wai Chang
You better double-check the error handler! It should not have ignored the write error to that TEMP folder. To verify whether a folder was writable, you could test write then delete a file in that folder and look for errors. You might need to temporarily use ON ERROR to trap file write errors

[FW]Harbour for the web is finally here !!!

2019-05-27 Thread Man-wai Chang
On 5/26/2019 5:52 AM, antonio.fivet...@gmail.com wrote: > > Please take some minutes to read this: > > https://fivetechsoft.github.io/mod_harbour/ > Very interesting "mod Harbour is an extension module for Apache that provides full support to execute PRGs and HRBs files from the web. If you

Re: Filtering Oddity

2019-05-19 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 12:01 AM Fletcher Johnson wrote: > 1) It used to be that a Select statement would be optimized by VFP to open > the source table again, in another work area, and then set a filter on it. > This was a problem when people thought they had a cursor and updated the > contents,

Re: Filtering Oddity

2019-05-19 Thread Man-wai Chang
You can just watch the value of variable f. A valid filter expression stored in variable f will not produce error. What are you trying to do when you said "...would prefer just one statement in the heat of debugging"? On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 6:46 AM Gene Wirchenko wrote: > I do know

Re: Filtering Oddity

2019-05-15 Thread Man-wai Chang
Yes, SET FILTER always need to use macro substitution _expr! Using SQL is also a better solution usually, depending how you move the record pointer. On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 4:55 PM Johan Nel wrote: > > I realize I am not a VFP guy, but would the following not work? In > Clipper/VO this will

Re: This is a test please ignore.

2019-01-22 Thread Man-wai Chang
CONTACT CONTACT Incoming missile On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 4:46 PM Alan Bourke wrote: > > A test. > -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Fedora 25 Server Spin /( _ )\ http://sites.google.com/site/changmw ^ ^ May the Force and farces be with you!

Re: Hey, can you test this...

2019-01-15 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:29 PM Fletcher Johnson wrote: > > Malcolm, > > I agree about using various password managers, but it's not uncommon for > people to have some passwords saved in a browser (sometimes without even > realizing it.) It maybe better to write down your passwords in a

Re: [ADMIN] Testing new mail relay

2019-01-13 Thread Man-wai Chang
CONTACT :) On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 2:52 AM Ed Leafe wrote: > > > I’m testing out a new relay service, Mailgun (https://www.mailgun.com/). So > far it seems to be running well, but if any of you on the receiving end of > things notices a problem, please let me know. > -- .~. Might,

Re: [NF] Happy Holidays To Everyone!

2018-12-22 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 11:00 PM Paul H. Tarver wrote: > > > Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays to each of you! > Same to you, your family and your colleagues! :) -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Fedora 25 Server Spin /( _ )\ http://sites.google.com/site/changmw ^ ^ May

Re: VFP9 Grid record focus

2018-11-18 Thread Man-wai Chang
These wikis might help? http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Fox~DisplayFindResults I barely remember that there were tricks in using grid: 1. this.recordsource=this.recordsource 2. select (this.recordsource) go recno() this.refresh() I still think there were some codes in your popup screen

Re: How can you tell the difference programatically between Windows 8 and Windows 10 (from the desktop, not server versions)?

2018-11-15 Thread Man-wai Chang
Found an old post via Google: Windows 10 returns same Win Version (6.02) as Windows 8.1 (Using VFP OS() function)

Re: How can you tell the difference programatically between Windows 8 and Windows 10 (from the desktop, not server versions)?

2018-11-15 Thread Man-wai Chang
Time to make a Win32 API call? Or maybe just calling DOS command "VER"? On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 1:50 PM wrote: > > VFP9SP2 > > According to http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~VFPFunctionOS, it looks > like 8 and 10 return the same values? > -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \

Re: Test

2018-11-08 Thread Man-wai Chang
CONTACT Bearing unknown, distance unknown, altitude unknown. Meow! On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 7:06 PM Dave Crozier wrote: > > Test message to test our email spamfilter…. Mailsphere…. Yak! > -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Fedora 25 Server Spin /( _ )\

Re: FOXPRO 2.6A for DOS

2018-11-06 Thread Man-wai Chang
Sharing Foxpro/DOS will be sharing the product key. Unlike Visual Foxpro 9, there is no generic key! I doubt anyone would share it, especially when the Foxpro/DOS is owned by one's company. On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 4:05 PM Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: > > >From where can I download a copy. > >

Re: FOXDOC.HLP

2018-11-06 Thread Man-wai Chang
What's the error message? Are you using Win 10 to open it? Win 7? You need the winhelp system installed. Read: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/insider_wintp-insider_install-insiderplat_pc/winhlp32-do-we-have-to-go-through-this-again/ddcc2f40-e4f3-407b-9672-ee8a2b08a71e?auth=1

Re: IBM to buy RedHat

2018-10-31 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 5:06 AM Ted Roche wrote: > > For another out-from-left-field view of the situation, consider: "Red Hat > takes over IBM:" > > https://www.cringely.com/2018/10/29/red-hat-takes-over-ibm > Caldera OpenLinux and SCO Xenix? :) No... IBM is a lot bigger and IBM mainframes are

Re: .h files included or excluded in your project?

2018-10-25 Thread Man-wai Chang
Debugging? But it's unlikely for anyone to introduce errors into a header file. :) On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 1:32 AM wrote: > > VFP9SP2 > > Since .h #INCLUDE files are only utilized at build time, is there any > reason you'd want to include the .h files in the EXE? I'm thinking > "no." -- .~.

Re: [NF] Broken Windows

2018-10-25 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 4:09 AM Ted Roche wrote: > > I think Windows has gotten too complex for MS to understand. Shadow > directories and fake redirections and everything dependent not on the OS or > the File System, but the Registry, may just be a step too far. Which means Micro$oft might need

Re: [NF] Broken Windows

2018-10-25 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 9:46 AM Gene Wirchenko wrote: > > > I am using PKZIP version 2.04g. At 25 years old, it may be > older than some of those Microsoft programmers. It might work better, too. > 7-zip is fine! I think it has a command-line version. -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision.

Re: Print salary receipts to a pdf image

2018-09-14 Thread Man-wai Chang
Check out freeware virtual PDF printers? Even if you needed to pay for commercial use, they were cheap. https://www.google.com/search?q=freeware+pdf+printer In Window$ 10, there is a Microsoft Print To PDF in Printers and Scanners section. On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 5:39 AM, Rafael Copquin wrote:

Re: Ooopsy test

2018-08-05 Thread Man-wai Chang
D for Date()! On Sat, Aug 4, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Vinny Terrabella wrote: > Today's test message is brought to you by Sesame Street, and the letter 'D'. > D for DOH! and D for DUH! and D for Dumb for words we can't say on > Sesame Street. > > Test -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! /

Re: Bounces

2018-07-10 Thread Man-wai Chang
Count me as well and I am using Gmail. "Your membership in the mailing list ProfoxTech has been disabled due to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated 09-Jul-2018. To re-enable your membership, you can simply respond to this message (leaving the Subject: line

Re: Database design

2018-06-17 Thread Man-wai Chang
True... reminded me of the days when I needed to fix the Y2K bugs in a MIS system based on Foxpro/DOS back in year 2000. Luckily, nothing went wrong! BUT then, there was no change to the database! :) On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 7:20 PM, wrote: > Or an even simpler approach of 'if it aint broke,

Re: Database design

2018-06-15 Thread Man-wai Chang
You are supposed to design the ER using the best normal form, at least according to school textbooks! :) On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 12:30 AM, wrote: > (VFP9SP2 app with MySQL backend) > > Some years ago I had created a solution where I had split the main data > table into 5 separate tables, each

Re: [NF] Best Practices for collaborative sharing of information

2018-06-02 Thread Man-wai Chang
A simple IMAP server should do, one that supports shared mailboxes. Basically, you can run a BBS or web-forum with it. On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 9:23 AM, wrote: > The Corporate gig has tasked me with looking into a way for several similar > organizations to communicate and share with each other

Re: [NF] Let the meetings BEGIN.

2018-05-26 Thread Man-wai Chang
I believe most shops would just go back to coins and bills so as to keep doing their small business when there was network partition. Or maybe the old way of signing credit cards. :) On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 2:43 AM, Thierry Nivelet wrote: > Hi Man-wai, > > FoxInCloud

Re: [NF] Let the meetings BEGIN.

2018-05-26 Thread Man-wai Chang
p the pieces and carry on. As it is always out of our > control unless it was our switch/hardware that failed internally. > > On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Man-wai Chang <chan...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> When you go Cloud, You have to handle the worst-case scenario when a &g

Re: [NF] FTP Client

2018-05-25 Thread Man-wai Chang
If it's still the good, old FTP protocol, you don't need a new FTP client. Would older versions of FileZilla work better? And Window$ 10 still have the very old console-mode ftp client. On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 1:15 PM, John Weller wrote: > I maintain a few very simple

Re: [NF] Let the meetings BEGIN.

2018-05-25 Thread Man-wai Chang
When you go Cloud, You have to handle the worst-case scenario when a network partition happens. And what should you do when the network resumes operation after a network partition? How do you sync data between local apps and the cloud apps? It's way too complicated, which translates into extra

Re: [NF] Let the meetings BEGIN.

2018-05-24 Thread Man-wai Chang
Is it your ERP vendor? Or is it your boss? If it's the latter case, you could not say no. :) On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 1:53 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > Our ERP vendor wants us to jump into the cloud in a multi-tenant data > environment. > > Sucks for us having written many

Re: [NF] When to Update WIN 10

2018-05-19 Thread Man-wai Chang
Personal use: already using the most recent official build 1803. No major problems, but my needs are basic. Company use: no comments, and be careful of the auto-magical Win Update On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 11:34 AM, Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: > When are you planning to

Re: [ADMIN] Testing post to ProFox

2018-05-18 Thread Man-wai Chang
Message received via Gmail. On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:37 PM, wrote: > I've sent 2 emails in the past week that never showed up (and aren't in the > archives). Testing to see if this gets through. -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \

Re: [NF] No Internet Connect

2018-05-08 Thread Man-wai Chang
Is your desktop also using wifi connection? Weird that only the laptop and cell phone could talk to the wireless router. If your desktop used wired LAN, set a static IP and see if it could ping the router. Since you are still in 1709, it's not the recent 1803 upgrade. On Mon, May 7, 2018 at

Re: [NF] No Internet Connect

2018-05-07 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Sun, May 6, 2018 at 11:53 AM, Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. wrote: > Starting Friday, Desktop has No Internet connection with WiFi > Starting Friday, Desktop has No Internet connection with ethernet to router > No DNS server LAN DHCP failed? Is your wireless router working? >

Re: [NF] How to block the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, version 1803, from installing

2018-05-04 Thread Man-wai Chang
I doubt Mr. Gates had anything to recent builds of Windows. And you should blame the management, programmers and engineers in Micro$oft! On Fri, May 4, 2018 at 3:38 AM, Fred Taylor wrote: > Gr. This update just forced itself on me yesterday without any > warning, just

Re: [NF] M$ teaches about AI (free)

2018-04-05 Thread Man-wai Chang
I no longer care about A.I., especially those developed by greedy business persons and programmers! :) I rather write my own analysis program using something like Visual Foxpro. Cheers to Foxpro! :) On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 11:38 PM, Stephen Russell wrote: > Have not looked

Re: [ADMIN] Testing

2018-03-29 Thread Man-wai Chang
CONTACT Got this one On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 3:30 AM, Ken Dibble wrote: > Not receiving my own posts? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Fedora 25 Server Spin /( _ )\ http://sites.google.com/site/changmw ^ ^ May the Force and farces be with

Re: FoxPro/VB for Sale...

2018-03-29 Thread Man-wai Chang
With the freely available Visual Studio Community Edition, it'll be hard to sell this one. :) On Thu, Mar 29, 2018 at 12:01 AM, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > I just came across this posting on CL. Its mainly for VB - and its and older > version 6 - but, seems VFP is included. I just

Re: Date / Date Time Picker Class

2018-03-08 Thread Man-wai Chang
I posted a calendar control in FoxWikis http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~CalendarControl~SoftwareEng On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 5:37 AM, Chris Davis wrote: > > > Get Outlook for iOS > > From: Chris Davis > Sent:

Re: New Term: Zombie Language

2018-02-22 Thread Man-wai Chang
Some big companies are still using it... not popular though. On Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 1:08 AM, Ricardo Araoz wrote: > Does anyone remember PL/I? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Fedora 25 Server Spin /( _ )\ http://sites.google.com/site/changmw ^ ^ May

Re: [NF] Anyone watch the liftoff yesterday?

2018-02-08 Thread Man-wai Chang
The main body was lost. ... I wonder whether they would recover it. as it should be quite expensive to make a new one. SpaceX confirms it lost the center core of the Falcon Heavy https://www.engadget.com/2018/02/06/spacex-falcon-heavy-center-core-lost/ On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:28 AM, Kurt at

Re: hellooo-o

2018-01-15 Thread Man-wai Chang
Felix The Cat? The wonderful wonderful cat? :) On Sat, Jan 13, 2018 at 11:39 PM, John Weller wrote: > Felix > -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Fedora 25 Server Spin /( _ )\ http://sites.google.com/site/changmw ^ ^ May the Force and farces be

Re: [NF] I Was on the Radio Talking 3DP!

2017-12-24 Thread Man-wai Chang
is becoming 'Planet Plastic' http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-40654915 On Sat, Dec 23, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Kurt at VR-FX <v...@optonline.net> wrote: > Exactly! > > So - did you listen to the show? Just curious... > > -K- > > > On 12/23/2017 8:47 AM, Man-wai Chang w

Re: [NF] I Was on the Radio Talking 3DP!

2017-12-23 Thread Man-wai Chang
Because of plastic pollution? On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 8:23 AM, Kurt at VR-FX wrote: > > The radio show host is an Ecologist/Environmentalist! Although - if you > think about it - and this guy's Show - it does NOT Make sense to have people > talking about 3D Printing. If you

Re: [ADMIN] bounced off the list

2017-12-15 Thread Man-wai Chang
Same notice received. Also using Gmail. :) On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 2:41 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > Ed: > > Got this note this morning: > > Your membership in the mailing list ProfoxTech has been disabled due > to excessive bounces The last bounce received from you was dated >

Re: [NF] Restart now or later?

2017-12-09 Thread Man-wai Chang
Do words like "feature" and "bug" have legal standing? If not, well, they do NOT bother anyone. :) On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 3:55 AM, Ted Roche wrote: > Windows is shipping new updates early this month. In the latest > "Windows 10 Fall Creators Edition Update" version, they now

Re: Windows 10 Home edition (was Re: Listbox auto-magically filters unwanted characters)

2017-12-07 Thread Man-wai Chang
If you are only using US English in language settings, nothing would go bad. :) But I noticed that some differences regarding Chinese Hong Kong Language Pack between Home and Professional. It seemed that Win 10 Home didn't install Hong Kong's Supplementary Character Set. I didn't noticed the same

Listbox auto-magically filters unwanted characters

2017-12-05 Thread Man-wai Chang
I found that in WIndows 10 Home Premium, the system locale Big5 might cause VFP's listbox not to display a row of data. When the locale was English, all records were displayed without losing one. Is it an expected behavior? -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Fedora 25

Re: Fun thought

2017-12-01 Thread Man-wai Chang
I had asked for such a miracle :) On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:41 PM, wrote: > How cool would it be if Calvin Hsia and the rest of the VFP team or new > folks were reactivated on VFP at M$? > > Yeah...just a fantasy but a fun quick thought for the

Re: [NF] "If it ain't broke..."

2017-11-27 Thread Man-wai Chang
Just trial-and-error? NO harm adventuring about new "toys"... just don't push the changes to your production system by accident! :) On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 10:03 AM, wrote: > My apps for literally over a decade now have used the MyODBC 3.51 driver to

Re: Reminder about VFP compound indexes and best strategy

2017-11-04 Thread Man-wai Chang
On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 5:09 AM, wrote: > VFP9SP2 free table > > I've got a table with this structure: > > city c(30) > state c(2) > radius i > distance i > > My query is looking for city, state, and radius, to get back those whose > distance is <=

Re: VFP - What upgrades would VFP10 have had...

2017-10-21 Thread Man-wai Chang
And browsers like Java Runtime? And now, Web Extensions since NPAPI support is being dropped On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Ted Roche wrote: > Native runtimes on OS X, Linux and Windows. > -- .~. Might, Courage, Vision. SINCERITY! / v \ 64-bit Fedora 25 Server Spin

Re: VFP - What upgrades would VFP10 have had...

2017-10-21 Thread Man-wai Chang
64-bit DBF and data structures support Unicode UI and report controls Bridge with for dotNet stuffs? On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Dave Crozier wrote: > Alan's comment post regarding VFP not having any upgrades put me in the realm > of thinking that IF VFP development

Re: Child Prodigy

2017-10-02 Thread Man-wai Chang
I would be more amazed if this programming genius could build Visual Foxpro compatible from the ground up and make all our old programs work naturally. Meow >@.@< It happened to Clipper the xBase compiler, called the Harbor Project. But VFP is a lot more complicated and came with a Rushmore

Re: [NF] do you ever reboot all your servers?

2017-09-01 Thread Man-wai Chang
What ERP solution? Foxpro? SAP? Peoplesoft? On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 3:36 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > We are rebooting all of our ERP virtual and IRON db servers a second time > today. > > Who knows what went on but the messenger service to the ERP is not doing > what is

[FW] Programming language life expectancy

2017-08-31 Thread Man-wai Chang
Forwarded Message Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Lynn McGuire Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Subject: "Programming language life expectancy" Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:08:20 -0500

Re: VFP Icon issue

2017-08-24 Thread Man-wai Chang
https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=clear+icon+cache=utf-8=utf-8_rd=cr=B9aeWc2QO4T38QXZoprgCQ On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 5:15 PM, wrote: > I had VFP9SP2 pinned to my Taskbar but before creating a customer demo, I > unpinned it. Now, when I repinned it or

Re: 2017 News from Hentzenwerke Publishing!

2017-08-04 Thread Man-wai Chang
I want at least UTF-8 support in all stock UI controls ... be it VFP 10 or VFP 9.1! :) On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at 5:21 PM, Michael J. Babcock wrote: > Got this from HWP (Whil) today. If you didn't get one, you can probably > still use that same link (not sure if

Re: Validating email addresses

2017-07-18 Thread Man-wai Chang
Would collecting others' email addresses bring you privacy problem? Would those email addresses be used as sending junk fax or email? You sure that the owners of those addresses want you to collect them? Careful about privacy and other legal issues ... :) On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 3:53 AM,

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