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Strategies & Market Trends : Trading the SPOOs with Patrick Slevin! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Atin who wrote (5799)	7/6/2000 10:21:02 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Respond to of 7434

<they write using some weird FoxPro database><p> perhaps it is something that was developed some time back. I notice a lot of stuff that becomes dated as a result of the cost of changing over. I have a database which was created using MS Works, for example. It has 10 years of data in it, and I wish to change it over to Alpha Five. <p> But while I'm in the conversion process I'm stuck using Works Version 3.0 which was written in the 1980's...later versions changed just enough to make the earlier version more practical to use. <p> Reminds a bit of a situation I found myself in during the mid-1980s. I had a computer reel with engineering code on it, written in Fortran IV. Finding a compiler to read it was like looking for The Philosopher's Stone. But the people who supplied the tape had written it that way, perhaps 15 years earlier, and they were not about to change it.<p> I still have that tape. It's sitting on top of a locker I have at a golf course. No one would even steal the damn thing....