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- THE AQUARIUM!
-
- Are you suffering from "Five-Oh-Phobia"? Do you want to squeeze every
- bit of power out of Clipper 5 and Summer '87? Are there times when you
- get stumped by a problem and could use the opinion of a Clipper guru? If
- you answered YES to any of these questions, you owe it to yourself to
- join a growing legion of Clipper developers in the Clipper think tank --
- The Aquarium.
-
- The Aquarium is an entirely disk-based publication catering to the
- specific needs of the Clipper developer. The Aquarium's goal is simple:
- to make you as productive as possible in your Clipper programming
- endeavors, without putting you to sleep. You will find The Aquarium's
- editorial tone to be refreshingly different from what you may be
- accustomed to. Our authors include Greg Lief, Craig Yellick, and Joe
- Booth, co-authors of the "Clipper 5: A Developer's Guide" published by
- M&T Books (available 6/91). All three have spoken at Nantucket
- Developers Conferences (both in the U.S. and abroad), and are
- well-respected in the Clipper developer community.
-
- The Aquarium's articles cover every facet of Clipper 5, including
- lexical scoping, the preprocessor, multi-dimensional arrays, code
- blocks, TBrowse, the GET system, Error objects, and much much more. As
- our subscribers tell us, "there is no better source for understandable
- Clipper 5 technical information". DBMS Magazine thinks so, because they
- have chosen The Aquarium to supplement their Clipper 5.0 coverage.
- Another believer is Ziff Communications, who have included The Aquarium
- in their CD/ROM Computer Library.
-
- The Aquarium lets you view articles at the same time as the accompanying
- source code. You can move between windows, and scroll each window
- independently. Articles and source code can be printed to printer or
- text file.
-
- Some of The Aquarium's unique features include:
-
- - SEARCHES: You can search for articles and reviews by title, author,
- date and keyword. Our articles and table of contents are additive. You
- can search for all previous articles at one fell swoop instead of having
- to hunt through a stack of back issues. This feature alone should save
- you countless hours.
-
- - MESSAGE CENTER: correspond quickly and efficiently with Aquarium
- authors and hundreds of Clipper developers world-wide via modem.
- Compose your messages off-line, then press a key to mail them. If any
- messages are waiting for you, the Message Center downloads them for you
- to read and respond to at your leisure. If you have a Clipper question,
- post a general message, and within hours you will have several answers
- from the nation's most knowledgeable Clipper developers.
-
- The Message Center also fully automates file transfers, so you can take
- advantage of 20+ Megabytes of public domain and shareware
- Clipper-related files. It also fully supports Phil Katz's PKUNZIP(TM),
- which means that your on-line time will be kept to an absolute minimum
- (generally under two minutes.)
-
- - SUGGESTED READINGS: The Aquarium is the only Clipper publication to
- provide an index of articles in other Clipper publications! Never again
- will you search fruitlessly for an article that you know you read
- "somewhere". When you perform an author or keyword search, you will be
- shown a listing of all relevant Aquarium articles. Another keypress,
- and you will be given a listing of ALL related articles in other Clipper
- publications!
-
- Each issue will contain no less than than 200K of articles and source
- code examples! (All articles are stored in compressed format to minimize
- storage requirements -- each month's articles will occupy approximately
- 100K.) Each issue will be mailed no later than the first week of the
- issue month.
-
- How much would you pay a Clipper guru to be on-call to answer your
- toughest Clipper 5 questions? Would it be worth fifty cents a day? The
- subscription rate for The Aquarium is less than that ($159 for one
- year). (Add $20 shipping and handling for Canada, $35 for overseas.)
- Plus, if you subscribe now, you will receive two free bonuses:
-
- - the Grumpfish T-shirt (while supplies last), chic and comfortable --
- the perfect apparel for heavy-duty programming sessions
-
- - Greg Lief's "Visible TBrowse". V.T. is a tremendous way for you to
- harness the unbelievable power of TBrowse without spending weeks
- fumbling with it. V.T. lets you interactively design your TBrowse
- configuration. You have complete control over all browse and column
- instance variables. You can move, insert, and delete columns in seconds.
- You can also change the colors of each column.
-
- Once you have finished designing it, Visible TBrowse generates
- ready-to-compile optimized Clipper 5 source code representing your
- configuration! V.T. also includes numerous context-specific help screens
- which serve as an invaluable TBrowse tutorial.
-
- Cure "Five-Oh-Phobia" today by subscribing to The Aquarium! Mail in the
- bind-in card at the back of the book, or contact us at (503) 588-1815
- (fax number: (503) 588-1980).
-
- The following are unsolicited testimonials from our subscribers:
-
- "THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for The Aquarium! I am comforted to know
- that I have access to this unbelievable source of Clipper material..."
-
- "The Clipper 5 series alone is worth the subscription price..."
-
- "If not for The Aquarium, I never would have taken my first timid steps
- into the Clipper 5 world. It's still pretty scary compared to Summer
- '87, but the more I use The Aquarium, the less I feel I've made a
- mistake. Thank You!"
-
- "The best subscription I've ever gotten..."
-
- "Your articles and source have been lifesavers again and again!"
-
- "I also receive Reference(Clipper), Compass for Clipper, DBMS, and DBA,
- and find Aquarium to be the most informative"
-
- "The Aquarium is simply superb. It is worth a thousand times more than
- what we pay for it."
-
- "Although I subscribe to Reference(Clipper) and Compass, the Aquarium
- educates and entertains me the most."
-