FoxPro 2.6 : Introduction

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  • Fox pro is one of the best Data base Management Software (DBMS) application for PC.
  • First DBMS for the PC was developed by ASSTON-TATE in 1979-80 that was called dBASE II. Then the company introduced the updated version of dBASE II in 1984 that was called dBASE III.  Later company  was developed enhanced version of dBASE III called dBASE III plus.
  • Arround 1990, Fox Software, Inc. developed a new Programming language FoxBASE become the another very popular DBMS software and share DBMS market with dBASE. FoxBASE was next reanamed as  FoxPro and updated for most powerful it was compatible with dBASE III and very userfriendly.
  • FoxPro is not only DBMS but more than it and popularly called RDBMS package.
  • Initially it was developed for DOS based environment. But after version 2.6 it is also available for windows and other enviornmet.
  • Around 1992, Fox Software, Inc. was merged with Microsoft  Corporation and released FoxPro 2.6. Soon Microsoft update it and renamed as Visual FoxPro (VFP). Microsoft next released many version some of them are- VFP 5.0, VFP 7.0, VFP 9.0. In 2007 Microsoft announced no anymore version of VFP will released next and development was closed. Latest version of VFP is Visual FoxPro 9.0.
  • Using FoxPro we can easily handle Database of small organization or company.
System Requiremet for Fox Pro 2.5 and 2.6
  •      Processor- 80386 or above
  •      Memory- 3-4 MB
  •      Disk Space- 20 MB
  •      Operating System –Windows, Dos
  •      CD or FD Drive


Steps to Start FoxPro
Version to Version Steps of launching FoxPro may be changed but overall steps are following-
1.       Find the location of directory where fox pro was installed-
A. DOS-
Ø  Use CD command to find ex- type CD  C:\FOXPROW
Ø  Type FoxPro and Enter
B. Windows-
Ø  find the location using my computer
Ø  double click on FOXPROW.exe

Note: Both Fox Pro for Windows or DOS functions are same but interface is different. When we clearly understand functionality of one version other can be easily handled. So primary goal for us is  learn fox pro not version has major concern.
FoxPro 2.6 For Windows

FoxPro 2.5 For DOS
When FoxPro window will open then it looks like above
Menu Bar (Pad) :  In any program many options and commands are available. All these commands are grouped and menu and the place where all these are stay called menu bar. In DOS based environment it is called Menu Pad. We use menu using mouse or keyboard-
a.       To select menu form keyboard press ALT or F10 button. then a character of menu will highlighted when we press this key form keyboard that menu fly out will open. Such as when want to open File menu we press ALT then F.
b.      To select menu from mouse move your mouse all menu that want to open and then click.
Command Window: In Fox pro Command Window is default available at right side. We use it to entering the command and directly perform task instead of using mouse and menu. It is faster way to perform operation. Mostly options can be handled using command window but some are not performed through where some are not performed  using mouse.
Some time Command Window not appear then use any of the following-

                          1.       Window menu- command
                          2.       Ctrl+F2
Status Bar: Status Bar available at bottom of FoxPro window . it show the status such as – EOF(End of File), Open database. It also display help about what task performed by this command when cursor is placed on any option.
     

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