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VFP and the future
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06/11/2003 09:22:04
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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00846850
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Please excuse me for jumping in, but I have wondered for so long, now I can not wait any longer: What does SNIP mean? I understand it is an acronym, but for what? (So now I pass??)

>SNIP
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>>That does not bode well for the corporate desktop either - since users want to have a familiar interface on whatever pc they use.
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>I hear this a lot ("familiar interface...") but I really do wonder if that's truly the reality...
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>I still see lots of DOS applications in use out there, and I'm not talking FPD apps but brandX apps.
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>I've had 2 different secretaries at two different places panicking because the work they just did was 'lost'. They had saved and it wasn't there later when they went back to get it.
>In both cases they had somehow gotten themselves out of "My documents" and had no idea. They had no idea how the treeview (for directories (oops, folders) works. They had no concept of "Find". The "interface" meant dick to them.
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>just some observations
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