SCO UNIX and Filepro 4.05

[William J. McEachran]

Long ago I wrote a cron job to increment PFCMARK each year.
I'm afraid that was 'good enough' for everyone whose filePro systems I was
managing.
I think you could be running filepro on SCO-Unix forever if you're on a VM
behind a firewall.
--
Bill McEachran
bill.mceachran at gmail.com     289-356-4406




On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 at 10:01, Scott Walker via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> You guys make my set up look state of the art!  Thanks.
>
> Anyhow, I would not expect you see any trouble from PFCMARK in next 10
> years.
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Cesar Baquerizo via Filepro-list
> Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2020 8:49 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: SCO UNIX and Filepro 4.05
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> Good morning,
>
>
>
> This is my every few years dilemma. Long story short.Due to possible lack
> of
> support for SCO UNIX on newer hardware, Y2K patches in older software
> (filepro and RealWorld), much more and, etc., etc. I have been recommending
> that we move off to a modern system. However, things "currently work" so
> that does not provide an "impending event".  FIlepro upgrade is not up for
> consideration.
>
>
>
> I am looking to see if anyone knows enough about the filepro Y2K "patch"
> that can tell me how long we can expect filepro to work properly. I.e.
> PFCMARK is currently set to 25. Is there a max number that this can be set
> to? Any other issues anyone is aware of?
>
>
>
> RealWorld Version 8 is another issue, but I assume this won't be discussed
> here. That said if anyone has comments about this, feel free to respond
> privately.
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
>
> Regards
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