Acknowledgments

I want to thank Loretta Yates for shepherding this book through the process. Thanks to Sean Dixon for his careful read of every single word in the manuscript and valuable suggestions that made this a much better book than it otherwise would have been. Thanks to Margaret Berson for dotting the I's and crossing the T's, and for correcting the spelling of this sentence when she sees it. Thanks to George Nedeff for keeping the many files straight. Thanks to Mart ­n Sal ­as, my boss at Universal Thread magazine, who agreed to do the technical edit of this book. Your considerable talents and knowledge of FoxPro have added value to this book in ways that no one else could have done.

Special thanks to Michael Stephens, associate publisher at Sams, who I ran into by chance at the Tech-Ed in Dallas last summer. Michael was editor of the Cobb Group Clipper newsletter years ago when I was publishing the Pinter FoxPro Letter . He remembered that he liked my writing and asked if I had a manuscript. Business was so bad that I really couldn't afford to attend that show, but INETA offered me a free ticket. I stopped by Michael's booth , and that made all the difference.

Les