NEW BLOB FIX!!!! RE: Birthday coming soon

Thu Mar 4 14:14:46 PST 2010

John,

60 is OK.  The problems start at 63.  That's when everything seems to start
failing.  I am 66, will be 67 in May and have too many parts removed.  No
doctor has offered to put anything in, just take it out.

I am still doing things many younger men won't or can't do.  you're correct,
age is a state of mind, think young, stay active and do the things you want.
That's what make life fun.

Happy birthday.

Richard

PS: How about meeting in Philadelphia for a steak sandwich?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-
> list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of John
Esak
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 9:11 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: NEW BLOB FIX!!!! RE: Birthday coming soon
> 
>  Ken,
> 
> Hold on with the birthday stuff... This is important...
> 
> There is a MAJOR (and I mean MAJOR) blob fix in the latest filePro. I
> discovered the problem about 6 months ago when our blobs were just getting
> SO huge.  The fix brings blobs down to exactly the size they should be
> (which is actually quite small)... You can easily calculate how big your
> blobs should be with a simple multiplication in the exact same way you
> calculate key size. I'm talking about using blob fields as MEMO edit type
> here. The Blob file has space added to it in 8k chunks. So, as your text
> moves up past an 8k boundary, a new 8k chunk is attached to the file.  If
> your blobs are gigantic, hell if they are simply bigger than the amount of
> text you have per memo dividing exactly into the blob file size...
> Remembering that you might have just 1 extra 8k chunk for the first
> available free space... Then you NEED the latest version.  Actually, this
is
> an absolute bug, if you use the MEMO edit type in your map, this error
> *will* happen to you.  By getting the new version (I guess that would be
> 5.6.10 now or is it 11?) you can run the new "blobfix" program that comes
> with it, and shrink/fix your blob files on the order of 2Gb files become
3Mb
> and similar.  It simply makes the blobs infinitely more stable. There was
a
> time when the blobs I used as MEMO type were so unstable that I always
> passed and used some other text saving method. Now, I use the MEMO
> function
> everywhere and they are solid as anything else I could muster up.  It's
> actually nice to have the feature. Now all we need is a better printing
> function for them. A while back I posted a method for being able to TAB
into
> and out of MEMO fields on the screen.  I feel they need to act similar to
> the way other fields on the screen work... But that is just my hang-up.
> There are lots of great uses for the MEMO exactly as they are.  One last
> thing... I'm not sure if the PageUp and PageDwn while in a text (MEMO)
field
> has been fixed. In previous versions it didn't work, and I think that is a
> must fix to make the MEMO editor have the look and feel anyone would
expect.
> Ken told me one time that he thought it should work and was surprised to
> find out it didn't, so it may have been another bug fixed in the new
> version. I didn't put it in as a specific bug report, so maybe that's
still
> hanging out, don't know.
> 
> But if you're having problems with MEMO/BLOB's being unstable and WAY too
> big, you need to get the new version. I think anything to do with file
size,
> (like ddefine and other executables have the fix in them.
> 
> Now, birthday stuff. 51 to 61 was a horrendous decade for me... At 50 is
> when I lost my sight. It kind of ruined any of the good stuff that was
> happening else wise like grandkids, having enough money for things I
always
> wanted, making a nice house and home... Relaxing a little, etc.  You I
hope,
> should be doing all those things and really enjoying it. But, don't let
> those muscles go down. I remember when you could do *pull-ups* on my door
> frame... Hanging by your fingertips!!!  Go on an Outreach trip or
> something... Just don't fall into Mt. Saint hellen.  :-)
> 
> Funny, you're listing to blues lately... Remember when we loved the Rock
so
> much. And there were great bands to go hear like Happy The Man.  I, too,
am
> playing a lot of blues. (I still love Blue Grass, and am going to see
> Allisyn Krauss in May at Gettysburg...) but Saturday night I'll be playing
> Rock Me Babe, and A Man In Love (a Clapton tune on "Money And Cigarettes")
> also, two of my own bluesy things... Oh, yeah, also Cripple Creek (The
> Band... Old standby's like that just never die.  "She told me just to come
> on by if there was anything that she could do..." [and she could do a lot
of
> things! :-)]).
> 
> Am I getting punctuation crazy in my old age?  Truly, if it matters, over
60
> and I don't feel like it's old age... Not until I try and get up after
> sitting on the floor for a while... Or when my fingers cramp up after two
> songs... Or any number of other things... But inside... In my head, where
it
> counts... I'm about 25.  :-)
> 
> Take care,
> 
> John
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ken white [mailto:kenwhite at verizon.net]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:33 AM
> > To: john at valar.com
> > Subject: Re: Birthday coming soon
> >
> > 61 - woof,  that must mean I will be 51 soon.
> >
> > What are differences between 48 and 51    ?
> > Quantity of Hair and Hair color
> > Need glasses to read
> > Tinnitus
> > Injury's take longer to heal
> > Finding muscles not used in years to shovel snow
> > I listen to the blues more than rock and roll
> >
> > What do I have to look forward to over the next 10 years?
> >
> > On a side note:  How is the quality of the current release of
> > filepro?  DSI
> > has random blob/memo corruption problems on 5.6.06D4,
> > thinking of upgrading
> > them over the weekend with my fingers crossed.
> >
> > Happy Bday
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
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