filePro 5.6.08 revision upgrade

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A new filePro revision 5.6.08 is now available on our website.

See the readme for a list of bug fixes.

Thank you

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(Windows) #1016
    ddefine did not allow filenames with "." in Windows
   
(Linux) #1018
    showlock did not display all locked records Linux
   
(All) #1026
    Only one index was deleted when selecting multiple indexes in 
ddir/dprodir
   
(All) #1072 - enhancement
    GETENV("PFREADONLY") will now return "ON" if the "-ro" flag is used, 
even
    if not set in the environment.
   
(Quickstart) #1075
    If you have a label "foo" and another "foo-bar" (ie: the same 
prefix, with
    a hyphen and a suffix added), references to "foo-bar" would refer to 
"foo"
    if "foo" occurs earler in the processing.

(All) #1068
    If you had something following the "b=(expression)" part of a browse
    lookup which "looks" like part of a valid expression, filePro would
    take that as part of the "b=(expression)" part of the browse lookup.
   
    For example:
   
        lookup foo k=xx i=a -nx b=(brwhead&brwdata)          *2"
   
    (If, for example, you were to edit the lookup line to remove a literal
    browse lookup, and missed the trailing "*2".)

(All) #1021
    In dcabe, if you load a processing table with a DECLARE GLOBAL and 
syntax
    check it, and then load and syntax check another processing table 
which has
    the same DECLARE GLOBAL name, but a different definition, you would 
get an
    "already defined" warning.
   
(All) #1040
    EXIT in @ONCE processing didn't exit *report.

(Linux) #974
    Website didn't allow license to be downloaded when using Domain Name
    as the license check value for Linux systems.

(All) #975
   The following flags have been added to swapcpu:

    -Q  = Quiet mode.  Suppresses "file already in destination order".
    -CN = Convert to native byte order.
    -CF = Convert to foreign byte order.

(All) #977
    swapcpu didn't swap the "blob" file.

(All) #982
    PFMBTO only caused the first message box to time out.  All subsequent
    message boxes still required Enter.

(Windows) #1016
    On Windows, ddefine did not allow you to create or access files with
    a dot in the filename.

(All) #1040
    EXIT in @ONCE processing in *report did not exit.

(Linux) #1071
    On some systems, a fresh filePro install would fail with "fatal error
    check current user count: invalid argument".

(All) #1077
    filePro 5.6 is now available on FreeBSD.

(All) #1088
    Calling READLINE() with an uncast dummy field, which has never been
    assigned a value, and not including a maximum length, could crash
    filePro.

(All) #1099
    There was a memory leak in nested CALLs which has been fixed.

(All) #1100
    Under some circumstances, filePro would not use the available free
    space in the blob file for new blobs/memos, causing the blob file to
    grow larger than needed.

    Note that the updated blobfix utility can be used to "fix" this, and
    shrink the blob file to the "correct" size.

(All) #1101
    If you have a lookup to a file that has an automatic index built on
    an associated field group, but the lookup is not on that index, it
    was possible for filePro to crash.

(All) #1102
    Executing a LOOKUP in a processing table, CALLing another table
    which executes a LOOKUP to the same file, and then CLOSEs that
    lookup, can cause filePro to crash and/or give unusual errors
    upon re-executing the LOOKUP in the original processing table.

(Linux) #1103
    The Linux distribution included an old "lib/rename" utility, which
    wouldn't run on some current Linux distributions.

(*nix) #1014
    User-count debug logging can now be controlled via the new config
    variable "PFCHKUSER=logfilename".

(All)
    xfer now handles the blob file.

(*nix)
    filePro could crash in some debugging modes of the system environment
    variable MALLOC_CHECKS.

(*nix) #1070/#1096/#1097/#1098
    Some places in filePro didn't properly require double-break.

(*nix)
    Debug versions hard-coded the user-count logging filename.  This is
    now controlled with PFCHKUSER=logfilename.

(All)
    OPENDIR() could crash if given a directory with thousands of files,
    all in alphabetical order.

(All)
    If a user menu's title and version number filled the space allotted,
    filePro could crash.

(*nix)
    On some *nix systems, DEL (when not used as the Break key) would not
    be treated as a backspace.

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