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Boston Computer News Network                                    February, 1994
A Service of the Boston Computer Society, USA                     Vol.2  No.12
Sponsored by the Xbase Language Group                          Clipper Version
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 1. Call for Participation:  UDF Showcase.
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    ReplyTo:   Les Squires bcnn@world.std.com  [73020,3435]
    ReplySubj: BCNN@UDF@Showcase.
    Deadline:  March 15, 1994 

    Clever coder, are you?  You have a 1 to 20 line Clipper function that 
    makes you smile every time you use it?  And you use it VERY often?  
    You'd love to publish it and get your deserved recognition, but you 
    know it takes a lot more than a single burst of cleverness to make a 
    whole book!

    Email your pride and joy to BCNN 73020,3435!  Choose your best UDF.  
    Make sure it's well documented.  Format it to resemble a BCNN 
    paragraph.  Take a look at recent contributions by Philip K Scott 
    [75460,2010] on Detached Locals or Adam Winter's hiding DBFS 
    [71022,703], or the ADDMONTH() function by Mike Meinz [76047,46].  
    Model yourself after Brian Leffler 75076,131] or Yau-Man Chan 
    (ymchan@uclink.berkeley.edu) below.

    We will organize the 3,500+ submissions and include all of them in a 
    special report.  Some of the best we'll sprinkle throughout future 
    issues of BCNN.  Who says we don't publish enough Clipper code! <g>

    Note. Your act of emailing a function indicates your legal right to the 
    code and grants to us the right to include it our report.  You retain 
    all rights.  You will receive credit in the form of a ReplyTo:.  You 
    may include an address and/or company address.


 2. *NEW SERVICE* Announcement of Local User Group News World-Wide.
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    ReplyTo:     Les Squires bcnn@world.std.com  [73020,3435]

    We're ready for you to sign up to receive monthly announcements of 
    local meetings.  Choose one user group from the list below.  Presidents 
    of these groups have agreed to email announcements of events in 
    your city.  Paragraph 0 will automatically display your user group's 
    announcement, each month your group furnishes an announcement.  We 
    start in March.  Participation is free of charge to local user groups, 
    available on request by the user group president.

    How to Sign Up.  Email one UGID (103537, 103888, 101658, etc.).  For 
    example, including '103537-Yes' in the SUBJECT:  or the body of your 
    email keeps you informed that 'Successware's own Jeff Jochum will be 
    paying us a visit to talk about RDD's in Hartford, Connecticut, USA' as 
    announced in last month's BCNN.  George Smith is happy.  Jeff is happy.  
    And knowing the quality of Jeff's presentations, you're happy that 
    you had clear details of the meeting.

    Select only one.  

    UGID   Participating Group Name/President/IDs                  Location
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    103863 Clipper Club Hamburg                             Hamburg/Germany
           Max Bressel           100112,3401 fido:2:240/5300 +49-40-7661290
    103864 Clipper Developers' Association of Toronto       Toronto, Canada
           John Ball                                           [72060,3716]
    100051 Clipper Expert Group                  Johannesburg, South Africa
           Russel Stromin                     [70334,2353]  +27 11 442 4550
    103537 Connecticut CA-Clipper Users Group           Manchester, CT, USA
           George L. Smith                      [71155,2543] (203) 645-8962 
    103888 Detroit Area Clipper Users Group (D.A.C.U.G.)    Detroit, MI USA
           Leo Benchich                                        [70451,3613]
    101658 Houston Clipper User Group                       Houston, TX USA
           David Vukovic                                       [71520,1310]
    100483 Mobile Software User Group                        Mobile, AL USA
           George Rae                             [71760,3562] 205-342-8360
    102689 North Carolina Clipper User Group  Research Triangle Park,NC USA
           Dr. Charles M. Beattie, II              919-315-3858  76376,1161
    100494 San Francisco Bay Area Clipper Dev. Assn.  San Francisco, CA USA
           Yau-Man Chan  ymchan@uclink.berkeley.edu 510-229-3277 70731,3523
    102691 SFDDG CA-Clipper/CA-VO SIG                         Miami, FL USA
           Willy Esteban           72740,1440 W:305-599-9609 F:305-599-9610  
    101612 Washington Area Clipper Users Group       Washington DC Area USA
           Gerald E. Nelson                        76467,3030  703-471-7919


 3. User Group Meeting:  Windows in 60 Minutes 
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    ReplyTo:  Les Squires, Program Chair
              CIS:73020,3435 or >INTERNET:LSquires@world.std.com
    Meeting:  March 15, 1994, 6:30 p.m. 
    Place:    128 Entrepreneurs Center, 200 Fifth Avenue, Waltham, MA USA.

    The January meeting was rescheduled to March due to the weather.  In 
    March we will pass out a 500 record DBF.  Any developer who wants to 
    participate is invited to MAKE SOMETHING WINDOWS.  Any software 
    (dbFAST, Microsoft Access, Paradox, Fox, Gupta SQL Windows, Visual 
    Basic, even Visual Objects for Clipper).  See earlier issues of BCNN 
    for more details.

    Yair Alan Griver [71541,3150] submitted the first entry via CompuServe.  
    He writes, 'Here's a ZIP containing the files for the app. I've also 
    included the modified BCS DBF files... It's a Windows app. Took an 
    hour.  Haven't tested it under DOS, but it should be pretty close to 
    working there automatically...
 
    Editor's Note.  << Automatically...  <g?!@!#>


 4. February 94 User Group Meeting:  Clipper Tool Exploration
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    ReplyTo:  Darren J Forcier  >INTERNET:djf@world.std.com
    Meeting:  February 15, 1994
    Place:    128 Entrepreneurs Center, 200 Fifth Avenue, Waltham, MA USA.

    While we all wait for VO, there are definitely many programming 
    solutions available to us as Clipper developers.  In February, Darren 
    Forcier assists us in exploring the various Windows programming options 
    we have available.  The goal here is not to select the "best" product, 
    but rather to survey the tools available and determine which ones can 
    help you learn Windows programming _NOW_:  1) Clip4Win 1.2 - Skelton 
    Software/Grumpfish's Clipper->Windows library, 2) Dolce Vita (With 
    Craig Yellick's La Strada programming guide), and 3) >From DOS - A cool 
    library for integrating Windows services into DOS apps.
 
    Darren will compare and contrast these tools on the following:
 
    o  The Windows Learning Curve
    o  The Windows API, and how it is accessed via each tool
    o  Product Architecture and features
    o  Porting existing Clipper code concerns and issues
    o  Event Driven Programming under Windows
    o  Portability to VO issues
    o  External Tools needed (linkers, resource editors, debuggers)
 
    Sample programs will be provided to give everyone an idea of what they 
    are getting into with each product.  Time permitting, Darren will also 
    discuss some of the other tools available from CA such as CA-DBFAST 2.0 
    and CA-REALIZER 2.0, which are also some viable Windows programming 
    options.

    This meeting should be fun and extremely informative.  Now is the time 
    to embrace Windows, as Windows will definitely play a major role in all 
    of our future programming.  Bring an open mind and lots of questions!  
    Email your questions by February 13th to bcnn@world.std.com.


 5. FUNCTION AddMonth II
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    ReplyTo: Yau-Man Chan  ymchan@uclink.berkeley.edu  70731,3523

    ADDMONTH by Mike Meinz still does not work correctly.  If you add 12 
    month to 2/29/92 it will fail.  If you add 1 month to 1/31/94 it will 
    fail.  Also, it is highly susceptible to SET DATE format.  It only work 
    in the American date format.  The follow is my ADDMONTH function that 
    will work for any day format and any year and any month, leap years 
    included.

    function addmonth(dCurDate,n)
    local i,dTempDate,dNewDate
    for i=1 to n 
      dTempDate:=dCurDate-day(dCurDate)+32
      dNewDate :=dCurDate+day(dTempDate-day(dTempDate))
      do while month(dNewDate)-month(dCurDate)>1
        dNewDate --
      enddo
      dCurDate:=dNewDate
    next
    return (dNewDate)

    This algorithm make use of the fact that the DATE arithmetic ENGINE in 
    Clipper (and other Xbase system) know the length of month and leap year 
    rules.  The DO WHILE loop is invoke only to correct for add month when 
    the date is the 31st and the resulting month has only 28,29 or 30 days.


 6. FUNCTION AddMonth III
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    ReplyTo: Brian Leffler <75076.131@CompuServe.COM>

    The AddMonth() function in last month's BCNN newsletter does not work 
    correctly when the day number does not exist in the month of the 
    resulting date.  For example, adding 1 month to January 31, 1994.  The 
    result is February 31, 1994.  Since this is an invalid date, The 
    Clipper CTOD() function returns an empty date.  Below I have corrected 
    the function to handle this situation. You should note that if you call 
    the function repeatedly, the day number may be set back one or two days 
    and you should handle this accordingly.  (By saving the day number and 
    putting it back to what it should be on the appropriate months.)
 
    FUNCTION AddMonth
    =================
    Purpose:  Calculate a new date by adding a number of months to a date.
    Input:    Date
              Number of Months to Add
    Output:   New Date
    Warning:  nIncrement must be >= Zero
     
    FUNCTION AddMonth(dDate,nIncrement)
            LOCAL nMonth
            LOCAL nLimit    := 12-(nMonth:=MONTH(dDate))+1
            LOCAL nYearAdd  := MAX(0,INT((nIncrement+11)/12)-1)
            LOCAL nMonthAdd := ((nIncrement-1)%12)+1
            LOCAL nDay      := DAY(dDate)
            LOCAL RetDate   := CTOD( ;
                    STR((((nMonth+nMonthAdd-1)%12)+1),2) + "/"+ ;
                    STR(nDay,2) + "/"+ ;
                    STR((YEAR(dDate)+nYearAdd+ ;
                    IIF(nMonthAdd>=nLimit,1,0)),4))
            DO WHILE EMPTY(RetDate)
                    nDay--
                    RetDate := CTOD( ;
                            STR((((nMonth+nMonthAdd-1)%12)+1),2) + "/"+ ;
                            STR(nDay,2) + "/"+ ;
                            STR((YEAR(dDate)+nYearAdd+ ;
                            IIF(nMonthAdd>=nLimit,1,0)),4))
            ENDDO
            RETURN (RetDate)


 7. XBase Advanced Multi-user Techniques
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    Special Joint meeting of BCS Clipper, FoxPro, dBase IV, & Arago SIG's.
    ReplyTo:  Arnold Bilanski  [71533,1031]
    Speakers: Tina Newton & Larry Nussbaum
    Date:     Tuesday, Feb. 15, 1994
    Time:     1:00PM - 3:00PM
    Location: Networks Expo, Hynes Convention Center, Boston

 
 8. MIX - A Graphics Add-on for Clipper Text Programs.
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    ReplyTo:  Rafael Clemente [73020,3435]
              Nena Casas 38
              08017 Barcelona  Spain
              Phone/Fax: 343 203-5594
    Download: CIS->MIX.ZIP in CA-Clipper/General Files library.  

    Let me call your attention towards MIX.  In short, MIX teams with any 
    TEXT-MODE Clipper program to provide:  1) direct control from within 
    your program of any desktop scanner (Epson, HP ScanJet, or compatible)  
    and 2) storage and display of any scanned image.

    MIX is NOT a developer's library.  It requires no modification to 
    either code, .EXE or data files and requires no recompiling or linking. 
    In fact, it works equally well with programs written in C, Basic, 
    Pascal, etc.

    o Images are displayed up to 1024 x 760 x 256 color in regular 1 Mb 
      VGAs. In standard 256 K VGA resolution is 320 x 200 x 256.

    o There is an automatic dynamic link between your application and MIX, 
      so that MIX always knows which image to display.

    o Picture display can switch from full to partial screen and vice-
      versa. In partial screen, the image is overlaid to your original text 
      screen, its size being user-definable.

    o MIX supports multiple zoom levels, panning and scrolling.  In the 
      capture mode it provides prescan function, as rubberband area 
      selection, brightness control and an special pure B&W capture mode 
      suitable for documents.

    o MIX requires 75 Kb but it can be fully loaded in Upper Memory, if 
      available. Epson scanners work with no further memory needs; HP 
      ScanJet IIc requires about 1 Mb EMS because its complex color 
      reduction process.

    MIX.ZIP on CompuServe is a near full functional program.  The demo 
    prescans and displays images but the full scan is inhibited.  If you 
    have no scanner, a set of three small pictures is included.  Feel free 
    to download it and let me know your comments.

    On a personal note.  In our company we have been developing graphic 
    applications for third parties since 8 years ago, but this is our first 
    attempt to market directly one of our products.  We would appreciate if 
    you could give us any advice towards finding some distributor 
    interested in marketing it in the US and other countries.


 9. Feb 94 CLIPPER->( Disk of the Month ) Contents                   * $$ *
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    ReplyTo: Dan Comeau [70451,2312]
             DanlWare Systems Corp.
             208-82 Armstrong Crt.
             Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3M 4M6, CANADA
             CompuServe     [70451,2312]
             InterNet       70451.2312@compuserve.com
             Voice & Fax    902/443-2207

    9KDEMO.EXE   9k Version Control System - Demo
    ALERT.ZIP    Modified Alert() source code
    BCNN9401.ZIP Boston Computer News Network Clipper Newsletter for Jan/94
    CHISEL.ZIP   Chiseled Border Box Code with Shadow. Source.
    CLIPBT.EXE   ClipButtons Library. Radiobuttons, check boxes, etc.
    COMMLI.ZIP   Communication library for clipper 5.2c. Shareware.
    DBEDIT.ZIP   DB_Edit(). Conventional Edit Screen within Tbrowse.
    DBFMGR.ZIP   DBF File Manager & Reindex Utility. Source.
    DDP1993.ZIP  1993 CA Directory of Applications and Solution
    DEBIN.EXE    Debin v1.1 utility. List OBJs containing debug info.
    DOSCMD.ZIP   DOSCmdLine() retrieves DOS command line.  Source.
    DTOOLS.ZIP   cFind text search util. ClipVars makes PRG code from DBF.
    EVALTI.ZIP   TimeEval() time event-driven code block evaluation
    EXOBLX.ZIP   Exospace API module for Blinker 3.0
    ISNET.ZIP    FN_IsNet() Fix for NETTO.LIB. Source.
    NSXDEM.ZIP   SIx Driver (SIXNSX) v1.5 Demo Program
    SNAKE.ZIP    Snake, the "Novell" Screen Saver. Source.
    SX3DEM.ZIP   Something eXtra Library v3.0 working demo version
    SX3DPA.ZIP   Patch for Something eXtra Library v3.0 demo


10. FoxPro Windows versus Clipper
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    ReplyTo:  Erik J. Thomas <73124.2160@CompuServe.COM>

    >>Editor's Note.  We run occasional notes like the one that follows to 
    >>keep the Clipper developer community up to date on what is happening to 
    >>other members of the community.  This message is in no way an attempt 
    >>to win over anybody to Fox.  But when developers talk to developers you 
    >>should be aware that we receive 5-10 of these messages each month.  
    >>Erik's is one of the more articulate.  

    I have been a Clipper developer since Summer 87 and made the jump to 
    5.01 (I even own 5.2!) and learned to use tBrowse, code-blocks, etc. 
    However, my customers all want Windows. I got tired of waiting for an 
    integrated Windows version of Clipper and bought FoxPro for Windows in 
    May of last year. 

    As of this writing, all new jobs I quote (and program) are using FoxPro 
    Windows, and several of my old Clipper programs have been ported to the 
    new environment. Although I have stayed up on the VO vaporware story 
    for some time, I have decided to dump Clipper as my primary development 
    tool.

    This decision was hard to make, partly because of all the time I had 
    spent learning the nuances of the new Classes, etc. It's also too bad, 
    because the guys at Nantucket really did a wonderful job of designing 
    each version of Clipper. It's just unfortunate that Nantucket/CA 
    dropped the ball by ignoring Windows too long.

    I suppose if VO doesn't cost an arm and a leg when it comes out (yeah 
    right!), I will evaluate it against the very real advantage of a rapid 
    development platform like FPW.

    Since adopting FPW, my development time per application has 
    (conservatively) been cut by 40%!!! That translates into dollars my 
    friends. And to top it off, I don't have to develop huge libraries of 
    User Interface (and other) code to deal with the trivialities of how a 
    browse looks, a menu works, or spend a lot of time designing screens, 
    reports, and queries. I don't have to buy third party products like UI2 
    (anyone want to buy my old version?) and write gobs of template code to 
    do what comes in the shrink-wrapped box from Microsoft for $199! 
    Microsoft really knows what software ought to cost--there is indeed a 
    lesson in there for the many overpriced Clipper 3rd party tool 
    developers.

    I was sorry to see all my hard-earned libraries of functions and 
    templates go (partially) to waste, but you know what they say in 
    business--its better to cut your losses and stay competitive than to 
    blindly hang on to a tool that is no longer adequate just because you 
    paid so much for it in time and money.

    I think developers today have to face the choice--do I want to make a 
    living with my programming skills, or do I want to do this as a hobby 
    or part-time job? I call this decision "going pro" and it will make a 
    big difference in how you view development tools.

    In my opinion, the developer who can deliver what the customer needs 
    (and wants) the fastest, with the least amount of effort and time, 
    wins. This is the decade of the integrated development environment. The 
    simple advantage of a small .EXE file is no longer a high priority like 
    it was when our customers had dual-floppy systems or 10MB hard disks 
    (am I showing my age?). I don't see any problem with the 2MB DLL I have 
    to distribute with my FPW system, nor has any of my customers. With 
    bargain basement 486s and 200+ MB disk drives available on every corner 
    for a song, VO and native-code compilers are going to have to have a 
    lot more going for them than small executables to turn my head.

    I saw a demonstration of VO at the Windows conference in the Bay Area 
    last fall, and I noticed it does have a lot more going for it than just 
    small executables. I will wait and see where this one goes, but the 
    development environment will have to be on a par with the FPW before I 
    will consider jumping back.

    One of the concepts of Clipper 5.x, and a reason I was a loyal Clipper 
    fan up until last summer, was the open architecture which lets third-
    party products fill the void in development environments and add-on 
    tools. As a concept I think it was revolutionary, and quite valuable in 
    its time. Now, an open architecture by itself is not enough. 

    Microsoft has done such a superb job of getting the mind-share of the 
    corporate user that it has created economic pressures sufficient to 
    force all the development vendors to provide Windows development tools-
    -or perish. 

    Sure, there are corporate users that have so much invested in Clipper 
    that there will be plenty of work for the Clipper/DOS programmer for 
    years to come. In that same vein, I have heard that there is still more 
    Cobol code in use in corporate America than any other language, but 
    Cobol doesn't interest me--it is a dying language. I was a Cobol 
    programmer over a decade ago, and don't ever want to go back.

    Who knows? the DOS (Clipper) programmer of tomorrow may have lots of 
    work, but who wants to maintain someone else's programs for a living? 
    Not me.

    In conclusion, with a Windows development tool like FPW, you can spend 
    90% of your time designing a system that solves the core business 
    problem instead of wasting your valuable time programming trivialities. 
    It's time to think big, think high-level, think efficiency, or get 
    stomped by the competition!


11. Mini-Devcon:  Every TBROWSE Knows How to Export Itself to Windows. 
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    ReplyTo:  Les Squires, Program Chair
              CIS:73020,3435 or >INTERNET:LSquires@world.std.com
    Priority: 500 responses (minimum) are required to activate report.

    Last month you were invited to receive a BCNN write up of a technique 
    for using Clipper for data manipulation of large databases and using 
    TBROWSE to export data sets to Windows products such as Microsoft Word, 
    Excel, and Access for report writing.  

    Sorry, but the sign-up was too small.  Perhaps we'll try an eMiniDevcon 
    someday on another subject.


12. A Must-Have for High Speed Modems: 16550 UART and You
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    ReplyTo: Chris Pels [73777,3562]

    Like many of you, I continue to upgrade my modem to reduce the time it 
    takes to send files and messages. I have always recovered the cost of a 
    faster modem by decreasing my phone charges. When I moved my Clipper 
    development to Windows a while back I got in the habit of doing 
    everything from within Windows. As you may have noticed, communications 
    within Windows is at least an order of magnitude slower than from DOS. 
    Several months ago a forum I monitor on CompuServe had a thread about 
    16550 UART chips on serial communications boards. The 16550 UART serves 
    to buffer data through the serial port much like a disk cache. The 
    result is dramatically improved communications throughput, especially 
    in Windows. I have experienced increased throughput of about 40% in 
    Windows! The best news is I bought the Boca I/0AT55 from PC Connection 
    with 2 serial (16550) ports and a bi-directional parallel port for $50. 
    If you do any amount of modem work this is an item you should not be 
    without.  


13. Quick Tbrowse
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    ReplyTo:   John Raleigh [75170,1151]
    MoreInfo:  Zachary Software, Inc. 
               106 Access Road Norwood, MA 02062
               800-876-3645, 617-551-0860, 76340,1123  

    I received a flier from Zachary touting a new product by Don Allred 
    called Quick TBrowse (QT).  You should have seen the outrageous claims 
    <g>. I'm gullible...so I bought it for $100.

    It is limited to automation of TBrowse development but that's plenty! 
    It also does up picklists but just as a special case of tBrowse, also 
    very useful.  As I see it, there are two great reasons to try this 
    program:

    1. To learn TBrowse thoroughly from the "outside in".  They ask you to 
       fill in a bunch of information, then dish you up a working TBrowse 
       ready to compile-link-execute THEN you can see how they made it 
       happen.

    2. To cobble up ready to use TBrowses that you can implant or call from 
       your own code.  All the generated source is "pretty" and 
       "intelligible" so you can further customize it if needed.  

    Quick TBrowse is a code generator for programmers like me who have been 
    bad-mouthing code generators for years.  I received my copy during 
    development of an engineering quotation system that was begging for 
    some TBrowse solutions.  I made my deadline and the code that QT 
    generated looks almost like I wrote it.  This is so much better than 
    generators I've seen before, that I am now more interested in Zachary, 
    perhaps I'll even look at their main code generator.

    Ira Emus did a lot of work on the product and gets proper credit in the 
    help file.


14. *NEW SERVICE * VOICEMAIL:  Your Own 800 Number Voice Mail.
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    ReplyTo: Traci Walker, Account Executive, 800-568-5553, F:615-291-7555
             A-Plus Communications Center
             830 Fesslers Parkway, Suite 103, Nashville, TN 37210
    ReplyTo: Les Squires bcnn@world.std.com  [73020,3435]

    Could you use an 800 service?  Would you like your customers to use a 
    toll-free number to leave messages for you?  VoiceMail answers in your 
    own voice, date and time stamps messages, and can send and transfer 
    messages to other subscribers.  

    BCNN has successfully negotiated an affinity group price structure for 
    its readership for VoiceMail phone services (good only in the USA).  
    $4.95 per box and $0.21 per minute for the first 100 BCNN subscribers.  
    $3.95/$0.20 for 101-499 subscribers.  The price drops FOR EVERYBODY to 
    $2.50/$.019 if we enroll over 500 persons.  Activation fees are $9.95 
    per box for the first 500.  $5.00 per box over 500.   

    Tell Traci Walker that 'Les from the BCNN' referred you to A-Plus 
    VoiceMail.

    Editor's Note.  This offer is an experiment.  Please feel free to 
    express your opinion about this type of activity.


15. Corporate Mailbox - Be The Master of Your Own Domain
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    ReplyTo:    David J. Byer  dbyer@ircs.com
                Ipswich River Computer Studio
    File Under: anyone@bigshot.com
     
    Check out my return Internet address.  Impressive, eh?  You might think 
    that Ipswich River Computer Studio is up there with ibm.com or even 
    mtv.com, but you'd be wrong.  

    DBYER@IRCS.COM is my own Corporate Mailbox registered through my 
    Internet service provider Software Tool & Die's The World (check out 
    your own service provider).  After registering, the World recognizes 
    dbyer@ircs.com as an alias for dbyer@world.std.com.  I can receive mail 
    to either address.  The whole experience was inexpensive and painless.   

    Additionally, a Corporate Mail Box can point at one or more World mail 
    boxes. For example, support@ircs.com might also expand to 
    dbyer@world.std.com. I have used the ubiquitous "staff" in this way.
     
    The domain name (e.g. ircs.com, or xxx.org, or yyy.edu) must be unique 
    over the whole Internet. Try out your desired name yourself by querying 
    the Network Information Center host database in Chantilly, VA with the 
    command:
 
        world% nicname ircs.com
 
    If this returns "No match for IRCS.COM" (or whatever name you tried) 
    then it's probably available.
 
    To establish my Corporate Mail Box, I filled out a short form and 
    returned it to Software Tool & Die with a $25 registration fee.  The 
    Corporate Mail Box application was then sent to the Network Information 
    Center (NIC) where its processing can take from 2-4 weeks.  There is an 
    additional fee of $75 per year for maintenance.
 
    Corporate Mail Box provides only an inbound mail address service.  The 
    "From" address of outbound mail messages remains in the form 
    "dbyer@world.std.com".
 
    If any of you have comments, I'm too busy being the master of my own 
    domain to respond, but you can send your comments to staff@ircs.com and 
    they'll take care of you. <g>.


16. College of Informatics of Novosibirsk State University
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    ReplyTo:  Kathy Kelly BCNN@world.std.com  (for contributions)
    ReplyTo:  sychov@vki.nsk.su (Sychov N.A.)
              Dr. Mishenko A.M.
              Summer School Head

    Contributions to the computer program at Novosibirsk State University 
    in Russia are being closed February 15th.   We have collected $700.  
    check is being cut on February 15th Last Chance!  Make your check made 
    out to 'BCS Xbase Group' to Kathleen Kelly, Novosibirsk Scholarship, P. 
    O. Box 126, Center Harbor, New Hampshire 03226-0126 USA.  


17. BCNN Statement of Ownership, Copyright, and Responsibility.
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    The BCNN Newsletter is sponsored by the xBASE User Group of the Boston
    Computer Society.  BCNN is dedicated to keeping professional database
    developers (both consultants and corporate employees) informed about
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    As an electronic network BCNN is also a hub where developers can
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    Recipients agree to respond via Email to periodic polls of their
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    The newsletter is distributed monthly by electronic mail via CompuServe, 
    Internet, FidoNet, and other electronic gateways.  It is free of charge 
    to individual developers.  Modest fees are charged to corporations for 
    job placement and third-party announcements.  Opinions expressed are 
    solely expressed by the Xbase Language Group of the Boston Computer 
    Society, even in cases where 'Xbase Language Group' is abbreviated to 
    'BCS'.  All materials are copyrighted by the BCS, unless otherwise 
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    Les Squires, Director
    Xbase User Group
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