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Comtronic Contract Collector is an application developed within the FoxPro for WindowsTM database management system, published by Microsoft Corporation. According to the May 11, 1993 issue of PC Magazine, FoxPro for Windows offers "spectacular performance in addition to a rich development environment."

Originally developed in the 1980's as a DOS application, FoxPro was first released in a Windows version during the summer of 1993. The DOS version was well known for its speed, and the performance of the new Windows version proved to be excellent as well. As an article in PC Computing magazine put it at the time, "Like the DOS version, FoxPro for Windows is fast. Across the board, we found speeds to be comparable to the DOS version's tradition." The article goes on to call FoxPro "easy to use—we can't imagine a better introduction to the Windows environment for DOS database users."

Comtronic Contract Collector for Windows is designed from the ground up to take maximum advantage of FoxPro's speed and ease of use. Furthermore, CW makes full use of the FoxPro for Windows graphical user interface. This means a significant boost in productivity resulting from the use of a mouse, pull-down menus, push buttons, dialog boxes and overlapping windows that can be resized and scrolled.

Other advantages of the Windows interface include efficient memory management, which enhances system performance even further. And with Windows, you can run more than one DOS or Windows application at a time and switch easily from one application to another.