filePro Upgrade help

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010, Scott Walker wrote:
>
...
>>Don't feel singled out.  A former client of mine got the shaft when
>>upgrading his 5.6.x to a newer 5.6.x (I think it was around 5.6.7) on an
>>RHEL system.  He was on RHEL3 at the time, which wasn't EOL yet.  He had to
>>wait until he replaced the system and moved up to RHEL5 to upgrade fP.
...
>This kind of stuff is what kind of makes me afraid of 5.6.  But to be fair,
>we are lucky to still have them around coming up with bug fixes.  I don't
>know about you but I have not heard much from fptech in the last couple of
>years and I don't have any idea if there will even be any future versions.
>You would  think if they had something in the works they would want us to
>know about it so we kept using the product, but not a peep.  Even the web
>site is virtually the same as it was in 2007, except for a note about the
>company name changing.
>
>I guess what I'm saying is that it seems like they have extremely limited
>resources so you have to factor that into your expectations.

Given that there are folks on this list who can hack putty to do
Good Things(tm), can write programs like Anzio and Print Wizard,
etc., all of whom are interested in improving FilePro, it seems
to me that there's a fair amount of potential talent available.

I, for one, would be willing to look at the code that handles
screen updates to see about fixing some of the issues I've been
talking about with xterms and such.

One of the main things I like about open source software is the
ability to scratch my particular itches, such as the first time I
printed something in January 2000 from groff and found the date
format was off.  I dug into the source, found and fixed it with a
couple of lines of C, and sent the patch back to the maintainers,
all of which took perhaps an hour.  My problem was fixed quickly,
without having to wait for a vendor to identify it, allocate
resources, and get the fix vetted, and published.

Bill
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