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Question: I am using Visual FoxPro 5. Is it possible when exporting a table to a text file to have the field names exported on the first line of the

Question: How can I handle in Windows an IRQ7 interrupt, generated by my own measurement device connected to parallel port? It was easy in DOS. Any generic code would be

Question: We have a use counted object with addRef() and removeRef() functions. When the reference count gets to 0, we want the object to be deleted. Is { delete this;

Question: I am trying to interface VBA with a C++ DLL. I am very new to C++ programming. I understand the declarations from the VBA side, but I am having

Question: Can you have both versions 5 and 6 of FoxPro installed and make applications that work with either versions 5 or 6? I want to make an app for

Question: How do I create an online help system to use in VB6? Answer: Try the HTML Help Workshop that ships with VB. It allows you to create a help

Question: I’m trying to set and save user preferences for an application to a local file. The java.util.Properties class looks like what I want, but I don’t understand how to

Question: Does SQL have a function to get only the time–rather than getDate()–which gets the date and time, or a function to get the Unix time() time. (the one that

Question: I’d like to get a bitmap file (c:mypic.bmp) placed on a MS Word97 file (msfile1.doc) using Powerbuilder (6.5). I am interested in printing that file afterwards. Answer: The following