FoxPro 2.5 for the Mac replaces the aging FoxBASE+, a product that has been outpaced by Microsoft's cutting-edge DOS and Windows database products. The Mac version not only shares features and core technologies with its PC-based siblings but it also offers complete cross-platform compatibility with DOS and Windows (and someday UNIX) systems ...
FoxPro for Macintosh operates much like its predecessor, but new features make it a bit easier to use. It provides a powerful new Query editor for data search; improved Report Writer and Label Writer tools; and new Wizard tools, which automatically generate simple screen layouts. All these tools lower the learning curve and make it possible to work effectively without learning FoxPro programming.
Many features target high-end Fox Proapplication developers. New graphical editing tools for screens, reports, and menus let developers generate FoxPro programs that are usable right away, without the manual tweaking required m the past. The new Project Manager utility helps manage all the screens and programs that comprise a FoxPro database and can compile them all into one desktop file for distribution to users.
FoxPro 2.5 tor Macintosh also includes the database-engine technology from the PC versions, providing better performance than did FoxBASE+. The previous version's limits on the number of open files and indexes have been lifted, and Microsoft claims its patented Rushmore search-optimization logic provides much faster database access than was possible with FoxBASE+, historically the speediest database program for the Mac.
Microsoft put a lot of effort into FoxPro's cross-platform capabilities. Provided tools help deal with complex issues of moving data — such as fonts, character sets, and filenames — across platforms, and sophisticated FoxPro databases can move from the Mac to a PC and back without much trouble. Naturally, the features particular to one opera! ing system don't port cleanly to a nother, and FoxPro does support Mac-only features such as Apple events and QuickTime.
FoxPro is very complex. It won't replace FileMaker at the low end of the Macintosh market, but at the high end, its speed, cross-platform features, and rock-bottom pricing could give ACI US'4th Dimension and Blyth Software's Omnis 7 serious competition.
Beaver, David. (February 1994). Microsoft Unleashes Swift New Relational-Database Program. MacUser. (pg. 41).
Dave Fulton
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FoxPro.sit
Emulating this? It could probably run under: 
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