feature list for positive suggestions

[GCC Consulting]

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> From: filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Fairlight
> Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 8:44 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: feature list for positive suggestions
> 
> >From inside the gravity well of a singularity, Kenneth Brody shouted:
> > Quoting Paul McNary (Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:53:05 -0600):
> > [...]
> > > I still have users on 4.1 because that feature set still 
> works well.
> > 
> > fpsupport just had a question today from someone who upgraded their 
> > computer, and filePro 3.0 now fails when it scans drive A:.
> 
> I saw the 4.1 message and almost posted.  Now I see a 3.0 
> reference and just have to ask:  I thought 4.5 was the de 
> facto y2k fix--so how are these people getting by on versions 
> that don't correct for it?
> 
> mark->
Mark,

I wrote an app in 1992 in which I built in the equivilent of pfcmark to
handle the y2k problem on date specific reports and processing.  Since the
app was using mdy/ for dates, I would use create a dummy field using mdyy/
and add the year in based simply, if the year was prior to "90" the year was
20NN.  Since the was an order entry app, this was a good pivot point.  I
could use sortn if I needed to sort on the date.

Now the actual problem was the computers the app was running on.  They
needed to be upgraded.  When the client upgraded his hardware, I had him
upgrade to fp 5.0.  I never changed any of the internal routines and it
still runs correctly.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting