FILEPRO ON WIKIPEDA!!!

[Scott Nelson]

Harry K. Whacker wrote:

> Hey gus i forgot about the email list but i found it agian on the " 
> WIKIPEDIA" i was reading the page and and it says that fliepro is made 
> from the 1970 and that is not very good anymore??? just wondering. i 
> used " copy" and "paste" here it is:
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>     /The correct title of this article is filePro. The initial letter
>     is capitalized due to technical restrictions./
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> filePro is a proprietary DBMS and RAD system developed by Howard 
> Wolowitz as The Electric File Clerk in 1978, licensed it to Tandy in 
> 1979 who first published it in 1980, the same year that The Small 
> Computer Company became a corporation.
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> Although there was a Profile for the I/III/IV, they were not made by 
> Small Computer. filePro today started out on the Model II and first 
> released by Tandy as "Profile II". It is currently the property of 
> fptech, Inc.
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> Data is stored in B-tree files, and all records are of fixed length. 
> This is not a true relational database, because it does not satisfy 
> Codd's 12 laws. It does, however, allow for rapid prototyping of 
> curses-like screens, and add-on products are available for ODBC 
> interoperability, Common Gateway Interface-like functionality, and 
> even a form of SQL peculiar to filePro.
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> Furthermore, there is a small, dedicated community of developers, and 
> there is a mailing list based at 
> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list and a voice 
> chatroom available at http://www.valar.com/fp_room/fp_room_enter.htm
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> The programming language is similar to BASIC and COBOL. Variable names 
> are one or two letters, and all variables are global within 
> processing. Every line of code is an IF-THEN statement with a maximum 
> of 121 characters for the IF condition and 121 for the THEN code. It 
> does not offer code blocking, although it does allow some commands to 
> be semicolon-separated on the same line. Labels and GOTO statements 
> can be used to simulate if-then code blocks. It does not offer any 
> looping or control structures; these must be simulated using labels 
> and GOTO. It does offer a GOSUB for subroutines, which must be defined 
> in the same file. It does offer a CALL statement which allows calling 
> of code in different files, but is difficult to use and maintain 
> (requiring parameter variables to be identically declared in three 
> different files).
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> filePro was designed for rapid application development and deployment 
> in the late 70s and has seen very little development or expansion 
> since in its fundamentals. It is the archetype of the monolithic 
> architecture paradigm, and the lack of built in looping and control 
> structures usually results in reams of spaghetti logic code. Modern 
> features bolted on later are almost completely useless. ODBC is solely 
> read-only and must be purchased at an additional cost (something of a 
> rip off, as using textfile ODBC to filePro data stores works just as 
> well). There are no APIs or other interfaces for interoperability for 
> filePro. It does offer extremely primitive web page serving thru a CGI 
> module (purchased separately), but this is almost useless as it cannot 
> be integrated with any other web technology. It has an SQL module 
> (purchased separately) that is completely unoptimized, so even a two 
> table join can take hours even on a lightning fast system. Like the 
> ODBC module, it too is read-only. filePro is completely unsuitable as 
> a backend for anything other than filePro applications using the 
> filePro text-based user interface (a fpGUI module is available, but 
> almost identical to the text-based interface).
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> filePro is only useful for completely isolated systems that require 
> very simple data entry and reporting.
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> Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FilePro"
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> Categories 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Categories&article=FilePro>: 
> Articles whose titles are initialed a lowercase letter 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_whose_titles_are_initialed_a_lowercase_letter> 
> | Database management systems 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Database_management_systems>
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Obviously authored by another lemming.   I felt the need, and added a 
comment to the end of the listing.  Anyone else feel free to correct or 
add to this.

Scott
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