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Encyclopedia > FoxPro 2
Cover of the FoxPro 2.6 Developers Guide
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Cover of the FoxPro 2.6 Developers Guide

FoxPro is a text-based procedurally-oriented programming language and DBMS, originally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, MS Windows and UNIX This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine, particularly a computer. ... A database management system (DBMS) is a computer program (or more typically, a suite of them) designed to manage a database, a large set of structured data, and run operations on the data requested by numerous users. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ... Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for personal computers. ... Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Douglas McIlroy. ...


Although FoxPro is a Database Management System (DBMS) and it does support relationships between tables, it is not considered a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS), lacking transactional processing. A database management system (DBMS) is a computer program (or more typically, a suite of them) designed to manage a database, a large set of structured data, and run operations on the data requested by numerous users. ... A database management system (DBMS) is a computer program (or more typically, a suite of them) designed to manage a database, a large set of structured data, and run operations on the data requested by numerous users. ... In computer science, transaction processing is information processing that is divided into individual, indivisible operations, called Each transaction must succeed or fail as a complete unit; it cannot remain in an intermediate state. ...


The final published release of FoxPro was 2.6, after which the name was changed to Visual FoxPro. Visual FoxPro is a data-centric object-oriented and procedural programming language produced by Microsoft. ...


Although no longer sold or supported by Microsoft, there is still an active worldwide community of FoxPro users and programmers. FoxPro 2.6 for UNIX (FPU26) has even been successfully installed on Linux and FreeBSD using the Intel Binary Compatibility Standard (ibcs2) support library. Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Linux, or GNU/Linux, refers to any Unix-like computer operating system which uses the Linux kernel. ... FreeBSD is a Unix-like free operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via the Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) branch through the 386BSD and 4. ...

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Version information

Microsoft FoxPro running on Macintosh System 7.1
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Microsoft FoxPro running on Macintosh System 7.1

The first Macintosh computer, introduced in 1984, upgraded to a 512K Fat Mac. The Macintosh or Mac, is a line of personal computers designed, developed, manufactured, and marketed by Apple Computer. ...

Operating system compatibility

Extant Versions by OS
Version FP 2.0 FP 2.5 FP 2.6
MS-DOS Yes Yes Yes
Windows 3.1 to XP Yes Yes Yes
Macintosh No Yes Yes
SCO UNIX No No Yes
Linux & FreeBSD No No Yes[1]
Windows 2000 No No Yes

Version Timeline

Version VERSION() returns EXE Size EXE Date
FPW 2.6a FoxPro 2.6a for Windows 2,444 kb 28-SEP-1994
FPM 2.6a FoxPro 2.6a for Macintosh ? kb August 1994
FPD 2.6a FoxPro 2.6a for DOS ? kb August 1994
FPW 2.6 FoxPro 2.6 for Windows ? kb March 1994
FPM 2.6 FoxPro 2.6 for Macintosh ? kb 1993
FPD 2.6 FoxPro 2.6 for DOS ? kb March 1994
FPU 2.6 FoxPro 2.6 for UNIX 2.3 Mb 1993
FPW 2.5 FoxPro 2.5 for Windows ? kb Jan. 1993
FPD 2.0 FoxPro 2.0 for DOS ? kb 1991

External links

  • History of FoxPro - Timeline
  • A site devoted to the history of FoxPro
  • Virtual FoxPro User Group - Free online support resource
  • Microsoft: FoxPro (old versions 1 to 2.6) Forum - Free online support resource

References

  1. ^ - using the ibcs2 compatibility library. See Installing FPU26 on FreeBSD
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