Hi fellows,

Dennis Lindeman replied in 19/10/2001 (Thread #568966 Message #571062) to my message about the History of FoxPro, telling me about an excerpt from the book "Java Database Development" by Martin Rinehart. It starts with:

"A Fast History of the DBF"

"In the 1970s, NASA's Jeb Long invented a data-handling language and implemented it on a mainframe computer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. (Rocket science has more sex appeal, but space exploration involves keeping track of lots of nuts and bolts, too.) Long's language, known as JPLDIS ("JIP-uhl-dis"—Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Display Information System) made it easy to define and implement tables. It enabled you to add, edit, and delete records in these tables. And it let you perform the basic relational operations, such as joining tables."

Well, since that day I'm trying to contact Mr. Rinehart. Already learn a lot about him, searching around in the web (he is an expert in database systems and dBASE in particular, even worked as a consultant to Borland in their Visual dBASE version). But couldn't find a trace of Mr. Rinehart email address. Sent an email message to Borland, with no reply. Sent a message to Mr Scott Rogers (Editor-in-Chief - McGraw-Hill) his book's editor, no reply either.

The story as you will be able to see in Dennis message (#571062) is very interesting and deserves a place in our work at the History of FoxPro, but can post it there without the permission of Mr. Rinehart. Also think he must have lots of other stuff that could be added to the history.

Can anybody give me some help on finding Mr. Rinehart?

Thanks in advance,

Fernando