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>>Craig;
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>>I have a copy of that book. I think I also have VFP 5 from the above mentioned author - and that book also makes a good door stop.
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>>Look at the bright side.
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>>The VFP 7.0 book will be published on September 1, 2001. You can rate the book - NOW - 1 to 5. That seems fair enough. Do they have a minus scale? After all, I have nothing to go by except previous offerings. In all fairness I should be allowed to vote.
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>>These types of books have been with us for a while. I remember one author who had credits for FoxPro 2.5. When FP 2.6 was released - the cover changed and the contend remained the same. The author was given credit for two published FoxPro books. Some VFP books are "lacking" in technical content while others are great.
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>>Another positive - the more VFP 7.0 books that are published the better - at least in my mind.
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>Yes, I can go along with that. I haven't seen it yet, but based on past performance, the "What's New in VFP7" book from Hentzenwerke is bound to be excellent.

Craig;

Hentzenwerke is First Class all the way!

You just reminded me - I donated all my dBase II through FoxPro 2.6 books to our local library in Santa Clara, last week. Some interesting books and authors - and was thinking of Tom Retting's dBase II book. Amazing how thin computer books were about 20 years ago and how much information they contained. Now, most of the computer books are sold by weight - how many trees died to publish this book - and if there is one paragraph of value - I figure it has paid for itself. Make that one sentence. I am trying to be nice today, but only today. Tomorrow, I hope to be my old self.

Tom