filePro Room meeting tonight - 9pm EST

[John Esak]

Hello,

Just wanted to alert everyone in the FP community that reads this list to
the meeting tonight in the FP Room. (instructions to get to room below...)
It starts at 9pm sharp and will go for at least 1 hour (usually they have
been going quite a bit longer...)  Tonight's meeting feature's Ken and Laura
Brody. The topic will be filePro's I/O abilities and features, specifically
the file I/O functions like OPEN, READ, WRITE, SEEK, TELL, etc.

Come, enjoy.  Bring your questions... (even those off-topic can be handled
when the main topic sags or is finished).

The room is a 24/7 affair with various people being in it at almost all
times (11-5 in the afternoons and 8-2 at night having the most
participation. The topic won't _always_ be filePro, more often it is
whatever the participants want to talk about, drifting back to filePro every
time the need arises. New people are showing up all the time. Most recently,
a gentleman from Alaska who is just terrific. he has been writing filePro
for decades and recently implemented a beautiful website _all_ generated in
filePro. Absolutely wonderful utility and utility in that it shows off his
whole catalog of (greenhouse plants and hanging baskets) products that he
sells only to lucky folks in Alaska. It is implemented in a really cool
style that is easy to use and allows scanning with all sorts of criteria
through his filePro database. Just when you think you've seen all the apps
out there in filePro, someone like Jerry Kallam comes along and says...
"Hey, I've been working in a vacuum here forever...". He saw the Room on the
fptech.com web page and thought he'd try it out.  Much to all of our
benefit. Nice man, nice application, great resource...  nice to have him in
the room every so often.

To join us tonight, you must use Internet Explorer (this will be changing in
the next month or so... access from other browsers will be supported) and go
to the link:

   www.tinyurl.com/yuag7

The first time you click this URL the system will put up a download warning
and have you download a small, secure program called iVocalize. It only
takes a few seconds. Then, you will be offered a login/password prompt. Just
pick any login/user name. There is no need for any password. We respectfully
ask that you use only your real name, first or last, or combinations of
initials and names. This is a professional forum, so we don't use "handles".

At that point you will start "hearing" the conversation going on. If you
have a microphone, you may join in the conversation as well. If not, you can
type text and we will all see it. The room is set up so that only one person
can talk at a time. It is a Press-To-Talk situation. You talk by holding
down the Ctrl key... letting go when you are done... then the next person in
the (visible) queue has his/her turn. Please don't talk too long at each
clip. Things go better when they go faster... although there are no
limitations of any kind regarding such things other than common courtesy.

You'll have some fun, maybe learn something, maybe offer something. It is a
unique experience and we (all of us regulars in the Room) invite you to come
around any time, especially tonight though at 9pm EST.  See you there.  Here
is the link to use. Why not come by earlier today and make sure your
speakers and mic are working. People will help you. (I, may be gone some
part of today though.)


     www.tinyurl.com/yuag7