More on fP 6.0 features

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
> 
> Confusious (John Esak) say:
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> > 2) I truly believe that Ken's ;-) after the 6.0 reference was pretty clear
> > that he was kidding. And, by the way, this is meaningless... but somehow
> > important... I have seen and worked with a tiny POP3 client that Ken wrote
> > before 4.8 came out! It was cool enough at a first shot of probably 30 lines
> > of code to be a sellable app... but that's another story. :-)
> 
> How long has the network code been in filePro?  I was under the impression
> just since 5.x.

Not sure what you mean by "the network code".

> I didn't take his comment about writing a POP3 client as a
> joke.  Done a 'strings' on *clerk on a recent version?  It's linked against
> the network stack, no doubt about it--and this would have to be intentional
> on the SCO binaries.  And I believe I know why it's there.

fileProGI is TCP/IP-based.  What reason(s) were you thinking of?

> So yeah, I
> wouldn't doubt he has a functional POP3 client in filePro.  This will also
> be good news for any future XML parser, since they'll need to retrieve
> DTD's and schema that aren't included, but are instead linked.

Remember...  I have access to written-for-future-version features of
filePro that I can include for myself with a simple change of a #define.

> I didn't take the smiley quite the same way, but I can't read Ken really
> well most of the time.  I just don't know him well enough to be able to do
> so accurately.  I defer to your judgement, since I believe you do.

Well, the OP did ask about importing e-mail into a filePro database,
and I did have a way of doing it.  ;-)

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