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xPro was a text-based procedurally oriented programming language and DBMS,

ginally published by Fox Software and later by Microsoft, for MS-DOS, Windows,

cintosh, and UNIX. The final published release of FoxPro was 2.6, after which the

velopment has continued under Visual FoxPro.

hough FoxPro is a DatabaseManagement System (DBMS) and it does support

ationships between tables, it is not considered a Relational Database Management System

DBMS), lacking transactional processing.

d and supported by Microsoft, there is an active worldwide community of FoxPro users

d programmers. FoxPro 2.6 for UNIX (FPU26) has even been successfully installed on

ux and FreeBSD using the Intel Binary Compatibility Standard (ibcs2) support library.

Contents

1 Version information

1.1 Operating system compatibility

1.2 Technical aspects

1.3 Version Timeline

2 References

3 External links

ersion information

perating system compatibility

Extant Versions by OS

Version FP 2.0 FP 2.5 FP 2.6

MS-DOS Yes Yes Yes

ndows 3.1 to XP Yes Yes Yes

Macintosh Yes Yes Yes

SCO UNIX No No Yes

nux & FreeBSD No No Yes[1]

Windows 2000 No No Yes

chnical aspects

xPro 2 included "Rushmore" optimizing engine, which used indices to accelerate data retrieval and updating. Rushmore

hnology examined every data-related statement, and looked for filter expressions. If one was used, it looked for an indextching the same expression.

addition, FoxPro2 was originally built on WatCOM C++, which had its own memory extensor - at that time state-of-the-

FoxPro2 could access expanded and extended memory, using almost all available RAM (DOS). It used some

errupts in absence of the extended memory driver: if no HIMEM.SYS was loaded, FoxPro enabled that mechanism.

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ersion Timeline

ersion VERSION() returns EXE Size EXE Date

W 2.6a FoxPro 2.6a for Windows 2,444 kb 28 September 1994

M 2.6a FoxPro 2.6a for Macintosh ? kb August 1994

D 2.6a FoxPro 2.6a for DOS 1,788 kb August 1994

W 2.6 FoxPro 2.6 for Windows 2.38 Mb 9 March 1994

M 2.6 FoxPro 2.6 for Macintosh ? kb 1993

D 2.6 FoxPro 2.6 for DOS ? kb March 1994

U 2.6 FoxPro 2.6 for Unix 2.3 Mb 1993

W 2.5 FoxPro 2.5 for Windows 1.63 Mb January 1993

D 2.5 FoxPro 2.5 for DOS 509,013 bytes February 1993

D 2.0 FoxPro 2.0 for DOS 465.86 kb 1991

D 1.0 FoxPro 1.0 for DOS ? 1989

eferences

1. ^ using the ibcs files from the Linux ABI (http://sourceforge.net/projects/linux-abi/) on SourceForge.net

xternal links

History of FoxPro - Timeline (http://www.foxprohistory.org/foxprotimeline.htm)

A site devoted to the history of FoxPro (http://www.foxprohistory.org/)

Virtual FoxPro User Group (http://www.vfug.org/)

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