Bug in *report with -fp

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Wed Mar 14 10:36:49 PST 2007


Quoting John Esak (Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:00:01 -0400):

> Have to come down on the side with Bruce... backward compatibility
> overrides anything... problem or no.
[...]
> In any case, I believe this is the way FP Tech has always worked since
> day one anyway. I can't remember a time when this was different...
> except for the MID() change that Bill Campbell would bring up because
> it bit him very early on in filePro early development days.

I guess he never heard of PFMID=OLD? (That was eventually dropped
sometime around 3.0, after many years of having the new syntax.)

> Other than that, I think there are env varsor backward compat... up
> the ying yang. :-)

Here are some:

  http://www.fptech.com/Products/Docs/FPFormat/envvars.shtml#compatibility

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