will old filepro work on XP computer

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 05:04:56PM -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> -Support- for something that old should -not- be free.  :)  If they think
> that, they're just nuts.

Well, yes, but would fpTech answer my support questions on 4.0 no
matter *how* much I offered to pay them?

> and unzip files.  They're up to 10.0 last time I bought it.  Some things
> get upgraded just to get upgraded.  I'm pretty confident that is an
> accurate statement.

This is also why Bill Gates has approximately 247 personal jet airplanes.

> > The second are the "we've been running this ancient version of filePro
> > on this ancient computer, and we finally replaced it, but only because
> > the hardware was about to die" people.  At least I can understand that
> > some of these people simply aren't in the position to spend the money
> > to upgrade both the hardware and software at the same time.
> 
> I have actually seen places like that.  And generally they're small places
> that don't even know what they're running for the most part, their solution
> worked so well that the developer wasn't missed when they long since
> stopped contacting them because there was no need...  And then things
> break.

I once had a Xenix client running 2.2.1 that we *really* wanted to
upgrade to 2.3.4 (then current, and about 5 years newer than the old
version), but we couldn't, because their multiport card had no newer
drivers.  An Arnet Starport, if memory serves (this was, like, 15 years
ago).

Cheers,
-- jra
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