weird import behavior

[Joe Chasan]

On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 11:21:08AM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Mitch Theophila/MGT Computer Solutions wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks to JP and Ken for their speedy replies.
> > 
> > hmm, never knew that ALLUP excluded the ASCII chars beyond 127.  the STN
> > book and the Windows online help (albeit from 4.5) make no mention.  was
> > that documented anywhere?  i'll check the edit defs and if necessary
> > make the change that Ken indicated.
> 
> Back in the old days when filePro wasn't 8-bit aware, the ALLUP edit only
> took up to "~", as that was the highest printable 7-bit ASCII character.
> Some time ago, it was changed to take all characters.  When that change
> took place, I don't recall.

it is probably important to note that ALLUP is just another edit in the
GLOBAL edit table supplied by filepro (e.g. it is not really "built-in" 
as are date & other misc edits) - recent installations do not, by default,
overwrite this file with new definitions.  I do not recall what old 
installations did but for those who modified global edit table
it would have been easier to just save a copy and copy back after an
update install - if it wasn't spelled out that some global edit had
changed, i'd bet most of us would have missed it.
 
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