OT?: Question for Tommorow's QnA with KB

[Bob Stockler]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 03:46:51PM -0500, Nancy Palmquist wrote:
| 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

I don't know the limits of current filePro demo packages
offered, but - as I said - the Linux one I have allowed
me to load and save my 1822 line ME2 program in dcabe.

Bob

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