Ancient filePro code (was Re: Question about checks for min and max values)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Mon, 25 Jul 2005 16:24:27 -0400):

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 04:15:51PM -0400, John Hemmer wrote:
> > And that is one of the Great Features about filePro. It is backwards
> > compatible. You can take an application written 20 years ago for 1.0
> > and run it on 5.14 or whatever is the newest verisons.

Well, _most_ code would run unmodified.  There was a change in how
mid() worked between 1.0 and 1.1 which would prevent old code from
working.  (There used to be a PFMID=OLD, but that never made it to
filePro Plus, as I recall.)

> Does anyone *have* any code from that long ago around, unmodified?

Probably.  When "y2k" hit, lots of people came out of the woodwork who
were still on ancient filePro versions.  We still get the occasional
call from someone who is upgrading their ancient filePro because the
ancient hardware it's running on is dying.

And I keep a copy of filePro 1.1/1.2/3.0 around just for those people
who claim that "filePro didn't used to work that way".  :-)

> I'd really like to see how that works out.

However, I don't have the original tutorial files from that era to try.

> Especially since I just acquired a copy of 1.2 for Tandy 1000/1200.  :-)
>
> Finding a 5.25 floppy to *install* it with may be problematic...

I've got a dual 3.5/5.25 floppy drive in my system, though I haven't
used the 5.25 for quite some time.

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