Re: VFP and DSN questions


"Jim" <anon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In deference to Beauregard T. Shagnasty, message rebutted inline.
;-)

Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
Jim wrote:

As to top posting
1) I've done it for ten years and nobody's complained.
2) I didn't think I was violating netiquette in the matter.
3) I find it easier and more efficient to read a reply at the top
rather than scrolling down to the bottom.

It is unnatural.

open the front cover and begin reading there?
the back cover and end up at the front or do you
chapter one or do you start somewhere near
When reading a book, do you start at If you top-post a reply to a
message from several days ago, people will
still need to scroll down to see what you are replying to, then
scroll
back up to read your response, because they will likely have
forgotten
the original points, or need to refresh their memory. Especially
for
someone who reads hundreds of posts every day.

They would also need to figure out or guess at which points you are
replying to, especially if the post is far along in a thread.
Here's
where good inline posting is valuable.

Unnatural? Not so. If you're reading a thread you click on a message
and read it. Then click on the next. And so on. By top-posting, one
can read through without scrolling down through all the previous
posting one has already read.
We should all top-post. It would save time and scroll wheels.
And your example would have been more accurate if you had placed all
three paragraphs reversed instead of just the sentences of the
first.

In all seriousness though, top, bottom, and inline posting each have
equal strengths and weaknesses. But that's two "nay" votes to one so
I'm outvoted here unless someone else wants to jump in...

---
Jim

Would you please fix your sig delimiter? It is supposed to be two
hyphens followed by a space and a return. "-- " as mine is. This
way,
your Mustang and monkeys comment won't be carried along by people
using
good newsreaders but don't trim.

Done. Didn't realize it was a problem but it should be fixed now.
Thanks for pointing it out.

--
Jim

Whose '67 Mustang is Y2K compliant invites visitors to his
palatial new home on the internet at http://www.PantherComputers.net

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million
typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of
Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the internet, we know this is not true.

Hi Jim,

dont bother discussing with them.
They only seem to argue about these things when they dont know any
other sensible answer.

So, to summarize:
Hardly anyone here knows much Windows or ASP, will only attack you on
silly details until you leave.


About VFP:
I had succes with ODBC for VFP, just get the latest MS driver, create
a DSN as usual and use the ODBC functions in PHP.
Using the DB files on the same machine makes things easier with
permissions, but over the network is also possible.

Good luck,
and dont be offended please, just ignore them.

Richard


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