>>>>>I don't think Mike is speaking out of a particular ignorance of VFP, DBFs, or Fox in general. When I first started using Foxbase in the 80s I was lucky to stumble onto the Compuserve FoxForum. Welcoming new users, setting a tone of congeniality and generosity, and offering guidance was MVP Mike Beane. He really does "get" Fox. A lot of us do. <s>
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>>>>Are you sure that MVP program existed in 80s for FoxBase?
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>>>I was thinking about that too. Maybe Mike wasn't an MVP yet but I'm pretty sure he was in the first batch, whenever they did institute it, and I know his was one of the first names in the Fox world I knew, along with Yag, Lisa, Menachim, Whil, Tamar, Toni (Taylor) Feltman, Tom Piper, Doug Dodge, Dan Freeman, Booth ... I was actually trying to remember how early the Foxgang started on CIS. I'll have to remember to ask Tony since she and Mike were at Fox Software at the time and she was sysop
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>>Mike was an MVP fairly early in the program, but not one of the originals. Microsoft started the MVP program in '93--legend has it that they were inspired by "Calvin's List," Calvin Hsia's of the most frequent posters on the CompuServe FoxForum.
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>>Here's the original list for FoxPro: Pat Adams, Jim Booth, Tamar Granor, Calvin Hsia, Nancy Jacobsen, Joel Neely, Tom Rettig, Lisa Slater.
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>>More info at http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~MostValuableProfessional
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>>Tamar
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>Thanks, Tamar. Do you remember when the Foxforum started up on CIS? I seem to remember one sysop before Toni but I'm not too clear when I started there.

I'm pretty sure it already existed as one section of a larger forum when I started with FoxBase+ in 1989. When we got our own forum with 17 sections, I don't remember.

Tamar