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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> filepro-list-bounces@lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces@lists.celestial.com] <B>On Behalf Of </B>Anthony
Terrible<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 19, 2006 2:03 PM<BR><B>To:</B> File
Pro List<BR><B>Subject:</B> RE: Antiquated Software<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>The thing that
bothers me the most about you people defending Filepro is <BR>you keep pointing
out poor programming. Filepro don't fix that either. Why <BR>don't you tell me
what Filepro can do that I can't do with Mysql and VB, or <BR>C++, or C# or any
number of programming languages. The reason is you can't, <BR>period. I really
like the one where they make system calls to bring up <BR>Internet Explorer,(oh
my God, a GUI program) and put them at the UPS web <BR>site. That's nice. I can
make XML calls to their web site and have the <BR>information and display it to
you faster then IE opens.</FONT><BR><SPAN class=866500221-19012006><FONT
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=866500221-19012006><FONT
color=#0000ff>How about programming speed?</FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=866500221-19012006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=866500221-19012006><FONT
color=#0000ff>Now I'll grant you that you can do more with the tools that you
are working with. but for raw speed in getting up an application, I'll
take filePro over any that you are using. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=866500221-19012006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=866500221-19012006><FONT
color=#0000ff>Now, I am stating this for the type of clients I work
with.</FONT> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=866500221-19012006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=866500221-19012006>By the
way, I have nothing against GUI applications. I saw that my client needed
an easy way to get tracking information periodically about a shipment and I
wanted to make it easy for him to get it. I didn't;t need any outside
tools, filePro allowed me to accomplish my goal. By the way, he can get
tracking on up to 5 shipments, the max. UPS allows in one pass. His
workstations are quite fast and the response is almost
instantaneous.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=866500221-19012006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=866500221-19012006>Tell
me, how long would it take you, with any of the above to program the
following:</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=866500221-19012006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=866500221-19012006>1.
Questionnaire file containing 12 questions</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=866500221-19012006>2. Two separate files with
names </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=866500221-19012006>3.
Have the associated questionnaire appear on screen when the record is
looked at.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=866500221-19012006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=866500221-19012006>This
is not the only information stored in the two name files.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN
class=866500221-19012006></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2><SPAN class=866500221-19012006>I
answered this challenge in a previous e-mail. But in filePro I did this in
15 minutes. this was while my Clients were out of the room we were talking
in and they had to take a conference call. They had just asked me to do
this and it was completed by the time they returned.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=663193721-19012006> One point I over looked, there can be multiple
questionnaires in the file.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P><FONT
face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN class=663193721-19012006>
<P><FONT size=2>Richard Kreiss<BR>GCC Consulting<BR> </FONT> </P>
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