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| 2003/06/12 |  | GREAT NEWS Dear Dear FiveWin user,
As you may remember, we promised you "important news" regarding the future of xHarbour, almost 6 months ago. After long and involved preparations, it is with great pleasure that we announce the formation of a commercial entity, dedicated to service, distribution, development and marketing of xHarbour and related products and services.
Our goal is to provide world-wide support and added value to xHarbour, and help xHarbour evolve to a commercial quality product, with dependable commercial support, and long term future!
The idea started in the later part of December 2002, in talks between Ron Pinkas, and Patrick Mast, and soon expanded to include most xHarbour active contributors and other key members of the xHarbour community, as well as 2 significant investors.
Early January 2003, we agreed to establish a corporation, aiming to give xHarbour its appropriate place in main stream development tools, much like our beloved Clipper at its time. The corporation was registered on January 30 2003, in the state of Nevada U.S., as "xHarbour.com Inc.".
Thank to our investors we have significant working capital, readily available for Administration, R&D, Production, Marketing. Our Preview Release will be available online as early as July 15th. It will offer standardized build, providing simplicity, the likes of CA-Clipper (R) and Blinker (R) utilizing our new xBuild utility. As early as August 15th. we'll start our Boxed distribution, with professional Manuals, CD, Installers, and Web based Update Wizards. Later this year we'll release our commercial grade xIDE, offering high degree of Delphi compatible Visual Designer, and Integrated Development Environment. xIDE will be available on Windows at first stage, with Linux support ASAP. More details on products and services can be found at this page: http://www.xHarbour.com/Products.
Each of our team members will be responsible for a given territory. All members and their territories can be found at the Distributor Partners page at http://www.xHarbour.com/DistributorPartners. Further all team members, as a group, will globally cover for each other.
We intend to establish a comprehensive support system, based on available internet technologies. Our service will be prompt and passionate, 24 hours a day, 6+ days a week. Service will be the center value of xHarbour.com, so as to create the highest level of reliability for our customers. We are confident in our ability to fulfill this strong promise, based on our track record of service, these past 18 months, plus the aid of financial backing. This financial support is critical in providing compensation for the huge investment of time required for the development and support of xHarbour. We believe that our enterprise will establish a true marriage of the best that open source has to offer, along with the strength stability and long term planning of commercial interest!
Secondary to the service core is a unique FUND, established for the purpose of offering monetary rewards to active xHarbour developers. The xHarbour.com FUND will offer primary incentive to High-Priority TODO items, and secondary general incentive for general contributions. This FUND was already used to help the development of a greatly improved DBFCDX, as well as a NEW SQLRDD, Internet Toolkit, and Documentation.
Rest assured that the free xHarbour CVS will continue to thrive as xHarbour.org (not .com) and anyone can continue using xHarbour as they do now without any commitment or relationship to the new commercial company. xHarbour.com will be offering added value and service for xHarbour, but we all remain committed to maintaining and growing the original Open Source project.
As of this announcement the www.xHarbour.com site is open for business, and we are already accepting Early Bird Orders, at reduced introductory prices. Additionally, the first 1000 xHarbour packages will include FREE T-Shirt!
More details are available at http://www.xHarbour.com and will be announced there as they come available. As always, your valuable input is welcome!
Enthusiastically yours,
Ron Pinkas, Patrick Mast and the xHarbour.com Team.
http://www.xHarbour.com |
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| 2003/06/08 | | We have a NEW POLL!
So, what IS your primary used RDD with CA-Clipper or [x]Harbour? |
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| 2003/04/21 | | We have a NEW POLL!
We have noticed that our previous poll was tampered (again...). So, next polls will have a IP check to discourage tampering.
Who would have thought that this was necessary... ;-( |
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| 2003/04/15 |
| 2003/03/21 | | We have a NEW POLL.
So, what compiler do you use NOW? |
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| Antonio Linares and Ignacio Ortiz have set an agreement on there disputes over FiveWin.
FiveWin users will now be able to freely use OZS Software commercial products like there are: X-browse, ODBC Direct and the Date Time picker. These products will NOT be included in the next FiveWin versions. All other classes or functions developed by Ignacio will still be available in the next versions of FiveWin.
We at FiveWin.info find this very good news for the FiveWin users. |
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| 2003/03/01 | | The "GrupoSP / Antonio Linares" news IS good news, but not THE good news I had for you guys. So, be prepared, we STILL have good news to be announced!
Ok, I know, I have been saying this for a few weeks now, but hey, it is a LOT of work to prepare what we have for you. ;-) |
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| 2003/02/28 | | Good news for all FiveWin users!
Grupo SP and Antonio Linares signed a
cooperation contract that gives Antonio Linares the freedom of developing, selling and supporting ALL FiveWin versions for the following 5 years.
Also, note that the new URL to Antonio's FiveWin site is now www.FiveTechSoft.com.
The FiveWin newsgroups are still at news.FiveTech.com. |
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| 2003/02/16 | | FiveTech Software will make a announcement this next week that will guaranty a long life and quality to FWH users. Stay tuned. Also, notice that the new URL for FiveTechsoft is now http://www.FiveTechSoft.com |
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| 2003/02/03 | | There is a message on the FiveTech.com newsgroup saying that Antonio Linares LOST the intellectual property of FiveWin to the Spanish Grupo SP. GrupoSP wants to put FiveWin code on open source. More news to come... |
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| 2003/01/28 | | I will be out the country for the next week to discuss and steer to a bright future for the xbase world! Please keep your eyes focused, as we will be announcing our plans very soon! ;-)) |
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| 2003/01/21 | | The problems with xHarbour.org's news server seems to be resolved now. If you still can not read or post messages to the news server, please read the news item of 2003-1-21 at www.xHarbour.org. |
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| 2003/01/20 | | The news server of xHarbour.org is temporary out of service. You can only READ from news.xHarbour.org for now, not POST. We will keep you posted when the news server will be back online.
xHarbour's USER mailing list can be found here. |
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| The FiveTech.com web site has this announcement today:
"OZ Software stops selling any FiveTech products. You must contact Antonio Linares (alinares@fivetech.com) directly." |
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| 2003/01/19 |
| 2003/01/18 | | Please, remember to update your NEWS reader to use news.ozs.com instead of news.fivetech.com if you want to access the fivewin newsgroups. |
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| 2003/01/16 | | We have redesigned the Users List Page. Now the detailed info is hidden in the detail page of the user. This way it will be much faster for slow internet users. Have Fun! ;-) |
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| We have started a new POLL! Just to see how fast you guys surf the net! ;-) So, VOTE please! |
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| It is now also possible to RATE "Tips&Tricks". Rating downloads was already available at FiveWin.info. |
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| 2003/01/15 | | We are preparing a announcement with BIG news for the xbase community. |
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| We have made a connection to the excellent "FiveWin News Group Search Engine" programmed by Rene Flores. Just follow this simple link http://www.FiveWin.info/NGSearch |
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| 2003/01/14 | | Any news on the FiveTech front? Actually, not much..
The FiveTech news server was down for a short while, but I suspect it to be a server problem. Ignacio promised me to keep the FiveTech.com's news servers up and running.
The FWH Open Source project is not yet up and running on SourceForge. It seems that it is VERY busy at SourceForge.net, so, lets wait for a few days.
I also want to thank everyone who did send me a mail to support me and the FiveWin.info site. Thanks again! And, let it be clear, the FiveWin.info site is their for the FiveWin USERS! I highly respect Antonio and Ignacio as brilliant programmers, but the only side I can chooses is the side of the FiveWin users. I will always be ready to help you guys! ;-)
Patrick Mast |
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| 2003/01/12 | | Dear FiveWinners,
Because I got so many concerning mails with questions about FiveWin and my relations with FiveTech, I want to make my position clear here.
As you all know, I have been a FiveWin supporter for many years. The FiveWin.info site is the result of many years hard work on the field. In those years I have made MANY friends among the FiveWin community. To many to mention here ;-)
Let it be clear, I HAVE or NEVER HAD ANY business relations with FiveTech, or any members of FiveTech.
I WILL NOT take any side in the problems between Antonio and Ignacio. They are both my friends and I like to keep it this way.
So, bottom point, my position in FiveWin will NOT CHANGE and will be as usual, neutral. I will still be the helping hand for ALL FiveWin users, like I always was.
To keep my neutral position, I will NOT set up FiveWin newsgroups at FiveWin.info. *IF* and only *IF* FiveTech.com's newsgroups will go down, I will set them up at FiveWin.info, so FiveWin users still will have a place to gather.
I'm very sorry if I gave people the wrong impression of me choosing a side in the FiveTech's dispute. I choose the side of the FiveWin users! ;-))
If you want to react on this, please feel free to mail me.
Patrick Mast |
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| 2003/01/10 | | We still have NO news about Antonio Linares. His email address alinares@fivetech.com has been temporary shut down. FiveWin is still NOT a open source project at SourceForge.net. |
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| 2003/01/09 | | We still have no news from Antonio Linares. As for now, FiveWin is NOT yet open source. As soon as we have any news, we will report it here.
Let me also take this opportunity to express my sad feelings to the former FiveTech members and their families. Lets hope that the future brings them more prosperity. |
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| Please, change your FiveTech.com's newsserver settings to "news.ozs.com". OZS.com is Ignacio's server. |
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| Update in FiveTech and FiveWin's future.
I have been talking to Ignacio and he has promised me that ALL FiveWin customers will KEEP getting their support. The FiveTech.com newsgroups will still be online. They are managed by Ignacio himself.
IF necessary, we at FiveWin.info, will setup new newsgroups for all FiveWin users. So, bottom point is, we all HAVE a FiveWin, nobody can take THAT away from us. We also are a very close community and every FiveWin users is willing to help another FiveWin user, I'm SURE of that.
I will also try to get in contact with Antonio to hear his vision. I will keep updating on this matter via this forum. |
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| 2003/01/08 | | Today Antonio announced on the Harbour-developers list that he will be making FiveWin for Harbour OPEN SOURCE, and that it will be available on SourceForge. This is his message.
He also announced that Ignacio Ortiz de Zúñiga, his partner in FiveTech, has left the company. Lets wait and see what the next following days will bring us. To be continued... |
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| 2003/01/07 | | We had a major hard disk crash on our servers. We are very sorry that we where offline for some time...
Please, if your where unable to register yourself as a FiveWin user or FiveWin.info contributor, you can NOW ;-)) |
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| 2003/01/06 | | We are still expanding the possibilities for the user database. It's now possible to upload your personal picture to your data! ;-)
If you want to upload your picture, please login and click on "Change your data". It's that simple!
If you have NOT YET registered, please ! register
If you want to contribute to FiveWin.info, register yourself as a "FiveWin.info Contributor
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| 2003/01/05 | | We have noticed that one person voted MANY times on the "What compiler do you use?" poll. I have reset the poll to the votes count on 2003/01/03 and closed the poll.
Let me note that the poll has a log and we have a good idea of who have been tampering with the poll. |
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| 2003/01/04 | | We have a new "Users" menu-item. This is a list of all FiveWin users who have registered at FiveWin.info. Registered users can upload their sample application or sample image of their application! If you have NOT YET registered, please ! register
If you want to contribute to FiveWin.info, register yourself as a "FiveWin.info Contributor
". Success! |
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| 2003/01/02 | | HAPPY NEW YEAR to all our FiveWin.info readers. I sincerely hope that 2003 brings you joy and happiness! I also want to thank EVERYONE for making FiveWin.info such a success! THANKS GUYS! |
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| 2002/12/25 | | Merry Christmas to all our readers, supporters and fellow FiveWin users. I hope you've all have a Peaceful and Healthy Christmas!
Let 2003 be our best year yet!! ;-)) |
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| 2002/12/20 | | The last few days, xHarbour development has been boosted! xHarbour has multi thread support and mulit thread INET API at language level now. See the xHarbour newsgroups for more details. |
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| 2002/12/18 |
| 2002/12/15 |
| 2002/12/14 | | Updated Jeff Barnes's "A guide to Using MS-Excel with OLE" to the
Tips & Tricks page. |
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| 2002/12/13 | | Added NEW POLL. This poll has radio buttons, but if you use more than 1 compiler, you can vote more than once. |
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| 2002/12/12 |
| Added a tip about Dependency Walker, which is a usefull tool that scans any 32-bit or 64-bit Windows module (exe, dll, ocx, sys, etc.) and builds a hierarchical tree diagram of all dependent modules. See FiveWin's Users Tips & Tricks Page |
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| 2002/12/09 |
| 2002/12/08 | | Together with Alexander S.Kresin, we are making a *real* Apollo SIXNSX RDD for Harbour. I have written a first sample application that uses the SIXNSX RDD. With this sample app you can browse SIXNSX database files. More to come! ;-))
Get the sample application together with source code and SIXNSX LIB's from FiveWin.Info contributions |
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| 2002/12/07 | | Added Luis Krause Mantilla's enhancements on the SMTP and POP3 class. The ZIP file also contains samples on how to use the classes. See FiveWin's Users Download Page |
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| We have build rating system into the download section. If you go to the downloads, you can rate a download. This results in a score for that download. Please RATE! ;-)) See FiveWin's Users Download Page |
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| Detlef Hoefner made a very good sample application that uses lots of Excel OLE commands. If you want to use Excel with OLE in FiveWin, this is a must have! See FiveWin's Users Download Page |
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| 2002/12/06 |
| 2002/12/05 | | Juan Carlos Salinas Ojeda sends me his ne VERCE 2.1 application.
This version is for FWH and is a kind of "Front end" to create FiveWin for Harbour projects.
See FiveWin's Users Download Page |
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| 2002/12/03 | | Rene Flores made a connection to Yanni Yannas's DBF's with all FiveWin newsgroup messages. You can perform searches to the DBF's. Try it via this link. Rene is still working on the pages, so you will see more enhanced pages in the future. |
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| 2002/12/01 |
| Added Jeff Barnes's "A guide to Using MS-Excel with OLE" to the
Tips & Tricks page. |
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| 2002/11/30 |
| Added xHarbour's FiveHX.zip to the Harbour Download Page.
With this file you will be able to build a LIB of all FiveWin PRG source files so that you can use it with xHarbour. |
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| 2002/11/28 |
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** THE NEW FIVEWIN.INFO IS READY!! **
We have been working VERY hard to get this new FiveWin.info site ready. We still have some things to do, but I think it is time to get this baby online.
Have a look at the 'register' menu. This is where YOU can register to become a FiveWin.info contributor. You can choose to be able to add news, tips and/or downloads! So, do you have a new class or function ready to share, register yourself at FiveWin.info and get it out!
It does not need to say that you still can send stuff to me so I can add it for you. ;-))
THANKS to Hans for his great help, to all FiveWinners for their patience and contributions over the years. It is YOU who have made it possible to have this great FiveWin.info site!! |
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| 2002/11/27 | | Added Baccan Matteo's MsgDOC.zip on the FiveWin's Users Download Page. In this ZIP file there are the MSG*.OBJ files that uses NO DGROUP memory. You can use it with Clipper 5.2x and 5.3x. |
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| 2002/11/25 |
| 2002/11/22 | | FiveTech's support has again released new Harbour binaries. This build is only compatible with FiveWin for Harbour 2.4. All FiveWin for Harbour users should have received an Email indicating where they can download that new FIVEH.LIB file. Get the Harbour banaries from the FiveWin's Official Downloads Page |
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| 2002/11/20 | | FiveTech announced version 2.4 of FiveWin. FiveWin for CA-Clipper, FiveWin for Harbour and FiveWin++ (For Xbase++) are all updated. For what is new in this version see the what's new page for this version. |
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| 2002/11/15 | | TheFull implemented "Extended Mode" in the TPOP3 class. The ZIP file also contains a sample PRG that shows how to use the Extended TPOP3 class. See FiveWin's Users Download Page |
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| 2002/11/05 |
| FiveTech's support has released new Harbour binaries. This build is not compatible with actual FiveWin for Harbour 2.3B. The new FIVEH.LIB is required. All FiveWin for Harbour users should have received an Email indicating where they can download that new FIVEH.LIB file. Get the Harbour banaries from the FiveWin's Official Downloads Page |
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| 2002/11/02 | | César Lozada made a new tDLL class to manage DLL's functions without having to declare it explicitly with DLL[32] FUNCTION statement. See the FiveWin's Users Download Page |
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| 2002/10/30 |
| 2002/10/23 | | Antonio Carlos sends me a new TGet class for
'FiveWin for Harbour'. This fixes the PICTURE bugs in Harbour. Get it from the
FiveWin's Users Download Page. |
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| Giovi Verrua has compiled his famous Flamenco Web
Server for Harbour! Its fully written in FiveWin for Harbour. See the
FiveWin's Users Download Page
for more details. |
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| 2002/10/15 | | Boris Pekic has managed to archive all FiveWin newsgroup messages from June 2000 till September 2002 in a nice survey. Thanks so much Boris! Click on the "NGArchive" menu on top of this page. |
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| 2002/10/09 | | We are working on a new lay-out for FiveWin.info. This is why the updates are not so frequent anymore. Sorry for that, we need some more time for the new site. It will be great though! ;-) |
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| Enrico Maria Giordano has made a replacement for the standard CA-Clipper Directory() function. This replacement supports full Long File Names. get the function from FiveWin's Users Download Page. |
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| 2002/08/29 | | Richard Chidiak has constructed a web page on how to move from Clipper-FiveWin to [x]Harbour-FiveWin. The page also has links to the libraries for TSBrowse and TSButton for [x]Harbour. See the FiveWin's Users Download Page. Thanks Richard! |
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| 2002/08/25 | | Thefulll (Rafa Carmona) has made this great multimedia class TMCI for FiveWin. It plays avi, mpg, mp3, asf, mov, mid, etc. Get it from the FiveWin's Users Download Page. |
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| 2002/08/20 | | Sylvain Robert has altered the standard GetTask() function in FiveWin. His version does not have the memory leak that the standard version has. Get it from the FiveWin's Users Download Page. |
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| 2002/08/11 | | Sorry for such late news posts. We are working hard on a very new FiveWin.info web page. More to come! ;-) |
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| Juan Carlos send me a new version of VERCE. This version is now compiled with FiveWin 2.3 and Harbour. Great work Juan! Get the file at the FiveWin's Users Download Page |
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| Picked this from the Spanish NG's; Martin Vogel's TMFolder. This is a multi line Folder class inherited from the standard Folder class. See the FiveWin's Users Download Page. |
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| 2002/07/29 | | FiveWin version 2.3b is available! See What's new in FiveWin 2.3b on the General Info Page. |
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| 2002/07/13 | | Luis Krause Mantilla made this new TPhoneDial class for FiveWin. It can be used to dial a phone from within your application. Get it from the FiveWin's Users Download Page. |
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| 2002/07/06 |
| 2002/07/03 |
| 2002/07/02 | | Willy Hermans has made a very good "HowTo" guide for people who want to go from Clipper to Harbour. The guide is also available in the Tips & Tricks Page. Thanks Willy! |
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| Rene Pilon's GX-Reports is at build 315 now. Please contact Rene if you rwant this new build. Please note that you only can get this build if you are a legitimate GX-Reports owner. |
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| 2002/06/26 |
| 2002/06/23 | | I have updated the download file of César Lozada's TGif89 class. This class can handle GIF's in your FiveWin application. Animated or not, inside a DLL or not! See the FiveWin's Users Download Page |
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| 2002/06/20 |
| A new version of HbMake, the make utility for Harbour, is available for download. HbMake is also available with a Windows GUI. See the Harbour Download page. |
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| 2002/06/19 | | Richard Chidiak has build this nice and interesting web page on how to move from Clipper/FiveWin to Harbour/FiveWin. I would say this is a MUST READ! Se it at http://www.cbati.com/harbour. Thanks Richard! |
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| 2002/06/17 |
| 2002/06/11 | | Today I came across a very interesting site with LOTSA Norton Guides in HTML format. See http://ousob.com/norton.htm ( Thanks to Fernando Castro ) |
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| It has been a long time since the last FiveWin.info news item! I have been so busy with a new version of WinFakt!, our main product. We also have welcomed my daughter Dorien back home from a 3.5 month stay at the hospital! Hurray!
I have a lot of news items to post now. I will try to get them online this week. Thanks! ;-) |
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