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  3. From: thomasd@tps.COM (Thomas W. Day)
  4. Subject: Re: MICROSOFT ACCESS vs FOXPRO
  5. Message-ID: <thomasd.31.724520279@tps.COM>
  6. Sender: news@tps.com (News Software)
  7. Organization: Telectronics Pacing Systems
  8. References: <6515.2b25b1fe@hayes.com> <1992Dec9.102211.144@turtle.fisher.com> <1992Dec10.124112.1@skcla.monsanto.com> <1gb3ktINNho4@grasp1.univ-lyon1.fr> <1992Dec12.004240.23761@netcom.com> <1992Dec15.220954.22700@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com>
  9. Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 15:37:59 GMT
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  12. In article <1992Dec15.220954.22700@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> lindsey@tincup.enet.dec.com (Randy Lindsey) writes:
  13.  
  14. >Remember that Microsoft just recently purchased Fox, so Access was well
  15. >underway in development by that time.  I expect they're still a little
  16. >confused about the relative positioning of the products.
  17.  
  18. Not a new position for Microsoft.
  19.  
  20. >I would certainly *hope* they'll be merging them somewhat, such as supporting
  21. >the same file structures etc.
  22.  
  23. They claim Access will access Foxpro files by sometime in January.
  24.