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From: "Kerr-Mudd, John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
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Subject: Re: The joy of SQL
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 11:33:32 -0400
Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:

> John Ames wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
> 
> > On 26 Oct 2024 05:53:02 GMT
> > rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Then there was the nightmare when I was tasked with extracting
> >> another division's data from FoxPro when we moved our bugs database
> >> to something a little more real and shot the fox.
> >
> > Ah, FoxPro...VFP was the DBMS we used at my first real-world data-
> > munging job. I assume our head honcho (a real DIYer) had his reasons (I
> > think the terminal server we used - it was a call center handling
> > inbound telemarketing sales, real janky place - had native support for
> > it,) but even then it seemed like a weird choice.

It was superfast compared with/to A-T's dBase.
It compiled!


> 
> I remember seeing reference to this one in Computer Shopper (which I bought
> regularly while it contained Atari ST articles):
> 
>    https://archive.org/details/WAMPUM45_ZIP

Whoa! 

fu to afc only dropping c.o.l, as we're in DOS PC land here.

-- 
Bah, and indeed Humbug.