OT?: Question for Tommorow's QnA with KB

[Nancy Palmquist]

Bob Stockler wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 09:47:25AM -0500, Tim Fischer wrote:
> | This is probably off topic (especially given Ken's statements about his
> | position at this meeting today) but	I was thinking about something and I
> | figured I'd throw it out here.
> | 
> | Why does a single user development kit for FP cost money?  Wouldn't it be
> | great if some kid who just wanted to learn programming and happened to hear
> | about this thing called FilePro could go to the web and download a single
> | user development package to start chipping away at?  I know when I was
> | getting into programming, I got the tools that were available for free (or
> | next to free) figuring that I'm not dumping money on a development platform
> | that I may hate or never turn into a profit.
> | 
> | Assuming that 1 out of every 10 people who download the development kit have
> | a need to purchase the runtime environment, this could turn into a profit
> | for FPTech.  Also, getting more developers out there isn't a bad idea.  
> | 
> | Now I know you've got the Demo version available, but last time I checked,
> | there was a limit on lines of code per table - and it was pretty low (250?).
> 
> I wanted to test MENU EDIT II on Linux, so got the demo
> version of filePro (5.0.08 at the time) for it.  It was
> limited to one user - which is why I couldn't test its
> behavior when a SYSTEM command executes an instance of
> [dr]clerk to add records to a file.
> 
> The version of ME2 on that system has 1822 lines of code
> and it runs fine and dcabe shows all of the lines.
> 
> Bob
> 
As I recall the limit is on rcabe/dcabe being unable to manage a table 
bigger than 250 lines (or whatever it is), but dclerk/rclerk and dreport 
/rreport could still run bigger tables if  you supplied them from 
another system.

Nancy

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