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From: kalena@bu.edu (Karen R. Sabog)
Subject: BCS 4D SIG Mtg-April 14th 7PM MIT
To: 4d@isig.mit.edu (4D Internet Email Forum)
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 1994 23:36:22 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: pkussell@foxboro.com (Peter Kussell)

Boston Computer Society 4th Dimension Special Interest Group
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Next Meeting Date
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Thursday, April 14th, 1994
6:30 PM   Novices Meeting
7:00 PM   Main Meeting
MIT Building E51, Room 136
50 Wadsworth Street
Cambridge, MA
MBTA & Wheelchair access, Free parking

For more information, call Peter Kussell at 508/549-6466 (work) or
617/821-6324 (home).


Agenda for April 14th, 7:00 PM
3rd Party 4D Editing Tools: QuickCode Pro 2.0 and SanityCheck
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Natural Intelligence of Cambridge, MA will give a sneak preview of its
latest version of QuickCode Pro 2.0, the great editing tool for 4th
Dimension procedures. It has everything that's missing from the
procedure editor and then some! We'll also raffle off an NI T-shirt
and mug!

We'll also be showing off another tool recently released called
SanityCheck which looks through all your structure and, like a grammar
checker, lets you know of any problems with your code, or orphaned
objects on layouts, etc.  There will be a raffle of a full working
copy of SanityCheck, and meeting attendees will be given a 20%
discount off the price of the product if they order that evening, so
be sure to attend! No rain checks!


March Meeting Highlights
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Saloni Sarin and Dan Beckett were going to show off a 3-headed back-up
strategy using the newly released version of 4D Backup, but they got
much the same point across with the single user version. Questions
about pricing aside, we found 4D Backup, the tool, to be a really
important piece in the database equation for ACI and was, until this
past month, very much MIA. The fact that it also comes with a language
extension to 4D makes it very attractive.

4D Insider v. 2 is finally here as well, and it too was an overdue
necessity for many of us needing the features of Mover. It turns out
that they seem to have gotten it really right this time in terms of
much needed intelligence about the state of objects in the database to
which you are copying, and prompting you to confirm you really do want
to move in a layout that doesn't contain all the referenced
procedures, etc.

We also heard about ACI's grande strategie with respect to platform
independence by the fall and beyond... Briefly, those applications and
modules written in C++ will be the first to "migrate," i.e. Compiler,
4D Write/Calc.

Ship dates for Power Mac versions of product are easier to meet:
* This Month   4D Write/Calc
* Spring 94    4D Server
* Summer 94    4D First and 4th Dimension
* Fall 94      4D Client

The External Kit v. 2 still has no ship date, but ACI will provide
developers with guidelines for converting their externals to run on
the Power Mac some time before the fall. In the meantime, externals
are downloaded to 680x0 machines (or Power Mac in emulation mode)
running Client so there's no apparent problems. Externals written for
Mac 680x0 machines will force the Power Mac to run in "mixed-mode,"
switching back and forth between native and 680x0 code.


May 12th Meeting
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Thursday, May 12th, 1994
6:30 PM   Novices Meeting
7:00 PM   Main Meeting
MIT Building E51, Room 136
50 Wadsworth Street
Cambridge, MA

Dave Tenen of ACR will present and raffle off FootMessenger Pro and
FootRunner Pro, an interprocess and interworkstation communications
system from FootPrints of Salt Lake City. 800/635-5280.


If you have an address change, call Jennifer at Natural Intelligence
617/876-4876 or fax it to 617/492-7425. Our BBS using 1st Class Client
is 617/864-3375. And, while you're at it, join the BCS! Call the BCS
number at 617/252-0600 today!


Directions to MIT's building E51
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* From Memorial Drive Eastbound (heading towards the Science Museum):

Take the underpass under Mass. Ave.
Watch for Kendall Square --> sign.
Take first left off Memorial Drive after underpass.
Drive across Memorial Drive onto Wadsworth Street.
E51 is on the left hand corner of Memorial Drive and Wadsworth Street.
E40 is one block further on the corner of Amherst and Wadsworth
Streets.
[Turn left on Amherst and right on Hayward into the MIT parking lot--
corner of Hayward and Amherst.]


* From Downtown Boston:

Take Longfellow Bridge (Salt & Pepper Bridge) to Kendall Square.
Continue on Broadway.
Take first possible left onto Ames Street.
On Ames, take a left onto Main street and continue to corner of
Hayward where Au Bon Pain is on the corner.
Make a right and continue to corner of Amherst.
[Turn right on Hayward into the MIT parking lot--corner of Hayward
and Amherst.]
Turn left on Amherst.
E51 is the right corner of Amherst and Wadsworth.
E40 is on the left corner of Amherst and Wadsworth.

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