>THE ULTIMATE FOXPRO Y2K SOLUTION
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>Well guys/gals here is what I believe to be the ultimate Y2K solution for FoxPro 2.5 & 2.6 for DOS and Windows.
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>The other day an associate of mine called me up and informed me that he has successfully developed, and installed at some of his customers locations, a patch for the FoxPro ESL runtime that gives it the same capability as the ROLLOVER in Visual FoxPro.
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>What happens is your ESL file gets patched so that the DIFFERENCE() function, he had to put the code somewhere, is non functional but that all dates rollover based upon a year that you specify. For example say you choose 50 as the rollover year, when someone enters a date with the year of 51 or greater then 19XX is used but when you enter 50 or less then 20XX is used.
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>We are putting the final touches on this thing and are looking into marketing it.
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>Some product highlights are:
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>Directly patches development EXEs and runtime ESLs
>No need to have access to source code
>No TSR/preloading executable
>No need to change shortcuts/batch files to preload a patch file
>No speed degradation
>No "per seat" charge
>Handles 02/29/2000 same as Visual FoxPro with ROLLOVER
>You will have the same freedom to distribute the patched ESL as the
>original Fox/Microsoft license gives you
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>Just think about how much money you can make by giving your existing
>customers, or new customers that have been deserted by their old
>developer, this new ESL and charging them for a Y2K compatability
>upgrade.
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>We are interested in receiving your input and thoughts on such a
>product.
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>For more information please respond via email.
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>David Martin
>Ivy League Software
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>EMail: ivleague@epix.net
Just a question: Is it legal to modify any runtime files?