Uploaded my hotkey inserter routine to UA. About Fox, to some french-sounding guy in London:
>people have bought the Studio suite, looked at C, looked at VB, looked at ....,>and then looked at FoxPro and thought : hey, everything I want to do is
>in here, let's try this thing ...... The rest is history.
This always reminds me of an old joke I usually tell when someone asks me "why just Fox, why not (Clipper, Cobol, C+-, Delphi, VB, Access, Whatever)". It's about a couple who went to vacation to Venice, and upon return, after being asked how did they like the city, said "City? We never needed to go to the city - we've had everything in the camp: shops, movie, market, beach, restaurants...".
Fox was exactly that camp to me for years (and the camp is just getting bigger all the time), I practically never had to look for anything beyond it. It has it all.
Behind the community centre, by its parking lot, a few kiosks lined up, with a serious assortment of goods. It's the practice for the last seven-eight years, to just open any kind of shop in kiosk format for starters, until enough money accumulates for proper space. Once a kiosk was no larger than a couple of square meters, now a dozen is not rare. The „Đorđević“ of Sakule had a dairy shop in one, which I preferred, the milk was fresh and good and the cheese was good too. Not that the city dairy's milk was bad, it's just that it was skimmed. The alleged 2,8% of milk fats was printed and it was a joke. A legend was making rounds, of a peasant who brought 40 liters of milk to sell to them, and they measured the milk fat, 1,4%. Nope, the guy said, it must be 2,8, measure again. After three measurements they asked him where did he get the idea that there must be 2,8%. Well, „it says so on your bag“. The guy bought forty liters of milk in supermarkets and presented it as fresh milk... They did get better in the later years, there was as much fat, though at least half of it was substituted with margarine.
The payment was arranged by depositing a check to a given amount, signed but without a date, and then the goods taken were written down. Once their value reached the amount, the shopkeeper would just write the date and pass the check to the bank, and the customer would write a new check. So this was somewhat advance payment, somewhat delayed, and the scheme worked smoothly. Many shops did this. Of course, it was also possible to pay cash, but that was scarce.
Once it happened that Brlja and I were returning from some field work, I'd guess Ledinje, as that's on my side of town and it was convenient for him to just drive me home and then keep the lada. I said just let's stop here, I need to buy milk. Which he took a good look at, and bought a few liters himself. Later I asked how did they like it, and he said fifty-fifty. The missus liked it a lot, kids wouldn't touch it, it's wrong color, too white, lacks that bluish shade.