Fernando,

>Hi fellows!
>
>For those that not knew about, please check this text that was copied from the FoxPro 2.6 DOS help file: http://www.foxprohistory.org/compuserve_the_fox_forum.htm
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>For those that knew about: was this the start of all FoxPro forums?
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>Do you think it's a good idea to add the history of the FoxPro forums to the History of FoxPro web pages? They are the basis of our community aren't?
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>You comments will be vey welcome!
>
>Thanks,
>
>Fernando

I can add a couple of items here.

The forum was started by the late Glenn Hart. He was a huge advocate of the Fox product line. He also wrote some early articles for dBASE Advisor about Fox.

Nancy Jacobsen wrote the original entry that you referenced above. Apparently it was so well written that the folks in Perrysburg added it to the product. She was also knwn affectionately as "Miss Manners". <g>

At one point Lisa Slater was the official archivist for the forums. Nancy Jacobsen and I were 'junior archivists' <g> so to speak. We helped collate the varios materials for Lisa (who did most of the work BTW). Essentially our job was to download every single message for offline storage as a sort of backup in case Lisa wasn't able to get some messages. As a result, somewhere around my home I should have an almost complete set of messages that would span a few years. The time frame would probably be around the 1991-1994/5ish period. This would have covered all the discussions you've heard about. The messages themselves are, if I correctly recall, copyrighted by CompuServe so I don't think I can hand them out without regard to satisfying them in some manner, unless they (CompuServe) gave me a waiver or something. However, if I can find them and if they are not damaged or have missing parts and if CompuServe permits at some point I can certainly make them available in some form or another. I wouldn't know if Nancy or Lisa still had their copies. I know I do - somewhere. <g>