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Cannot Quit FoxPro

Question: I have built an executable file and included a READ EVENTS command. After running the .exe, I am unable to quit VFP. The message I get reads: “Cannot quit

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Organizational Chart Linked to Outlook Contacts

Question: I’d like to draw an organizational chart of each of our customers (and store that diagram in an Exchange public folder), linking each different role to a specific Outlook

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Informix Row Locking Problem

Question: I created a simple SQL statement to update one row of a table in a transaction. I then updated a different row in the same table while this transaction

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Printing a Report to a RTF or HTML File

Question: Can you create a HTML or RTF file in Visual FoxPro? If so, how? Answer: VFP comes with a program (called GENHTML.PRG) that can generate HTML from many different

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Advanced Find – Words Within a Document

Question: I’m trying to use the Advanced Find feature of Outlook to locate attachments that contain a specific word (analogous to the Containing Text feature of Windows’ Find feature). I