wish list

[Tim Fischer]

Well, I've got one item that Ken suggested we put on the wish list, but I'm
really not sure how.  (What's an AC Member?  Who is one?)

My wish is for the USER command to be able to support a larger return string
that 255 characters.  Believe it or not, this is a verified, undocumented
issue.  This is a rather large issue with what I'm trying to accomplish with
the USER command.  Granted, for now I can just break the data returned into
separate (over 150) strings, but after researching the USER command and
writing the program, I realized how much time was wasted due to this issue.


Another wish would be for updated documentation.  I use (regularly) the
manual found at:

http://fpunixware.fptech.net/fpmanhtm/start.htm

Is this not the newest manual available?  Is this not the best document
available?

Along with this, I'd really like to see a "Known Limitations" section added
to this manual.  I realize with this comes the never ending "How is that
pertinent", but I think some ground-rules could be designed to make this a
useful tool.  

Then again, with this crowd, I could see some really funny write-ups:
"FilePro Plus cannot make toast and butter it for you, but JP wrote this
cool program to tell you how much butter should go on any given piece of
toast based on it's dimensions and density and Brian can tell you how to
boot Linux off of it..."

Thanks,
Tim



> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of John Esak
> Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 6:58 PM
> To: filePro mailing list
> Subject: FW: wish list
> 
> FYI,
> This helps. Thanks!
> John
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wally Turnbull [mailto:Wally at Tbull.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 5:18 PM
> To: 'John Esak'
> Subject: RE: wish list
> 
> 
> John,
> 
> My understanding is that the programmers have been given the 
> wish list to sort out as "trivial", "doable", or "in your 
> dreams" (so to speak).
> Once that is done then management will make the final 
> selection for the next version.  Some of that has already 
> been done.  I don't think that the AC will know what has been 
> selected until the version comes out because of the issues 
> like "you promised that but you didn't do it" or differences 
> of priorities.  Remember that the AC has already voted on the 
> list.  Their role pretty much has to be submit and rank not a 
> lot of dialog or the politics will get muddy real quick.
> 
> To recap, the sequence is:
> 
> 1. Anyone gives a wish to an AC member who posts it and 
> assigns priority level to it
> 
> 2. fPTech periodically retrieves the list and organizes it to 
> remove redundancy and sort it by category
> 
> 3. fPTech programmers sort the list as described above
> 
> 4. Management makes the final selection based on AC priority 
> and programmer possibilities.
> 
> If it works like it is supposed to I think it is a reasonable 
> plan.  The main drawback is that it does leave those who 
> submit wishes in the dark for a long time.  Some wishes will 
> be in the next version and others may follow in the future.
> 
> Best,
> Wally
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 
> > filepro-list-bounces+wally=tbull.com at lists.celestial.com
> > [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+wally=tbull.com at lists.celestial.c
> > om] On Behalf Of John Esak
> > Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 4:01 PM
> > To: filePro mailing list
> > Subject: wish list
> > 
> > 
> > My only comment about the running/working wish list is this:
> > 
> > Where are these wishes going?  Who, if anyone at FP Tech is 
> looking at 
> > them? Will there ever be any kind of feedback as to what the 
> > prioritized list looks like?  Is there any date for when 
> such a list 
> > will appear?  To be quite honest, I have felt like the wishes I've 
> > submitted and voted on from other people... have all gone 
> into a black 
> > hole somewhere.
> > 
> > John
> > 
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