ancient version compatibility

[Laura Brody]

Ken, Ron and I worked on a version of filePro for Deskmate. The map, key
and index files are compatible with DOS/Windows filePro. The screens and
output formats are not compatible. It had prc tables. I don't recall
details about processing, but it had it to some degree.

Brian was talking about grabbing the data with AWK or with filePro I/O
commands. Totally doable to pull the data out.

Laura Brody

On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 12:19 PM Jeff Harrison <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> I may wrong, but I seem to recall that deskmate was a Tandy product that
> was not related to filepro/Profile. Perhaps the data can be imported or
> read as a non-filepro file though.
>
> Jeff Harrison
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> On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 12:12 AM, Laura Brody via Filepro-list
> <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> The key file and indexes are compatible (old style indexes, obviously). I
> don't think that screens and reports are. It has prc tables. It knows about
> export. No print code tables. It used whatever the Deskmate default printer
> was.
>
> Have fun playing with it.
>
> Laura Brody
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 7:14 PM Brian K. White via Filepro-list <
> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>
> > Thanks much.
> > That's about what I was hoping. At least, it's worth trying even if it
> > doesn't pan out.
> > They have an installation that they started as a kid on their dad's
> > model II with deskmate 2, then migrated to tandy1000 / PC deskmate 3,
> > and by now it's running in virtualbox on linux. Originally he was asking
> > if there was a deskmate driver to print postscript to file, to
> > eventually get pdfs... Only later it came out he's using filepro.
> > Apparently he's been using the app for caving data all that time.
> > Worst case I can whip up a little awk program to dump the key files into
> > csv or xml or post into a mysql db.
> >
> > I have no idea what features filepro for deskmate had. Like, did it even
> > have prc tables? The export command? Print code tables (such that I
> > could supply him an hplaser one)? Could you print to file or print to a
> > script of your choosing via the command field in printer config like you
> > can today? Apparently the unknown version he has is new enough that all
> > the data is in the key files.
> >
> > Until this question, I had no idea that Deskmate was a distinct OS with
> > it's own executable format etc. I thought it was just a ui shell like
> > DosShell, or Desqview which adds multitasking on top of DOS, but is
> > still DOS runs DOS executables. But I figured the files might be
> > compatible with the dos version simply because that's probably what you
> > would have been porting from.
> >
> > Now I want to play with it just because it's so odd.
> >
> > --
> > bkw
> >
> >
> > On 5/11/19 7:47 AM, Laura Brody wrote:
> > > As I recall, the data files would be totally compatible with the
> > > DOS/Windows version of filePro. I am pretty sure that the screens
> > > would be too.
> > >
> > > Wow, that was a long time ago....
> > >
> > > Laura Brody
> > >
> > > On Sat, May 11, 2019 at 5:33 AM Brian White via Filepro-list
> > > <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> > > <mailto:filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>> wrote:
> > >
> > >    Here's a good one.
> > >
> > >    Someone on a facebook vintage computer group has a bunch of data in
> a
> > >    Deskmate version of fp.
> > >
> > >    Anyone know if the files would be directly usable by a dos/win
> > >    version, or
> > >    would they need xfer like if you were going from win to linux?
> > >
> > >    --
> > >    bkw
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