About the Author
Les Pinter is the author of six books and more than 280 articles on database development. He received a master's degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas, and finished the coursework for both an MBA and a Ph.D. from the University of Houston. He joined with Mike Griffin and Bill Radding in 1980 to market the Magic Wand, the fourth word processor ever written for the CP/M operating system, and sold the source code to a 23-year-old Bill Gates, who used it to build Microsoft Word a year later.
He moved into the database field with dBASE II and dBASE III, then migrated to FoxBASE during a project at LucasFilm's Skywalker Ranch in 1987. He published the Pinter FoxPro Letter for 10 years in the United States and for four years (together ...
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