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>Actually I think he did - as an extension of his duties at Fox Software. I seem to recall that, with Dr. Dave's blessings, this was in response to the tremendous interest in Fox products that happened sort of as a result of Tom Retting switching from Clipper (I think he ditched dBASE for Clipper) to Fox.

Doug;

Tom was a co-author of a dBase II book while he worked at Ashton Tate, then off to Clipper and Fox in that order. I just saw Tom in a 1953 movie on television.

Another Tom