[filePro Update] September 2006 News

[Lauren Kelly]

We've got several announcements this month--

() filePro 5.6.04 is now available for shipment and download
() New Incident-based Technical Support Contracts
() filePro Discussion Board Now Online
() We are nearing our 20,000th sale!

Keep reading for more details!
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filePro 5.6.04 Now Available
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We are pleased to announce the release of filePro 5.6.04. Current
filePro 5.6 license holders may download this update at any time
from our program file download area:
http://www.fptech.com/Download/drequest.shtml

filePro 5.6.04 is available for Sun Solaris, SCO OpenServer 6.0,
SCO OpenServer 5.0, Unixware, Linux, and Windows.

If you have any questions about this update or would like to order a
new license or upgrade, please contact sales at 1.800.847.4740 or
sales at fptech.com

filePro 5.6.04 contains the following fixes:

(Linux) #940 Using LOCKED() in rclerk/rreport on Linux could crash
  filePro.

(All) #941 fPSQL could crash if the query required 10K of output
per record.  (Default increased to 100K, and it now properly reports
error if exceeded.)

(All) Corrected some licensing issues with session and feature
counts not being released in some circumstances.

(ODBC) #943 Define files fails on an ODBC data source when the
table name has embedded spaces.

(All) #947 If you have a dummy field which has not been given a
length/type in processing, and place it on a screen, and then have
a popup screen over that field, and when the popup isn't active (ie:
after a POPUP UPDATE, but before a CLEARP, do a SHOW
"@...", the contents of that dummy field will bleed through to the
popup.

(All) #951 If you have a fuzzy browse lookup with "show=pkeep",
would crash upon re-executing the lookup.

(All) #952 New system array -- @FUZZY[] -- contains information
about the most recent fuzzy browse lookup.
Currently, the only info available is the record number via
@FUZZY.RECNO[subscript]

(All) #954 If you have any pending PUSHKEYed keystrokes, the
filePro processing debugger didn't update the screen as you
stepped through processing.

(All) #955 -SX flag to *report did not load the selection set.

(All) #956 Memo editor spellcheck crashes
Pressing F8/S in the memo editor to run spellcheck would crash
filePro is you hadn't previously done a SPELLCHECK() function
within processing.

(*nix) On Unix/Linux, when not using the license server, if the
license file was missing or was determined to be invalid for any
reason the filepro program would abort with a segmentation
violation.
This has been corrected and the filePro program now displays a
licensing error message and exits cleanly.

(*nix) On Unix/Linux, when not using the license server, filePro
could incorrectly create many semaphores and shared memory
segments.
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New Incident-based Technical Support Contracts
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In response to requests for a revised technical support pricing list,
fP Technologies, Inc. has developed new plan options, available
for review on our website under Support Information:
http://www.fptech.com/Support/

You will notice that support is no longer based on the customer's
filePro products and user count, but is instead based on support
incidents per year.
An incidence or support call can pertain to ANY supported filePro
product.

Annual Technical Support Contracts are available at the following
rates:
5 Support Incidents: $450.00
10 Support Incidents: $800.00
20 Support Incidents: $1,400.00
Unlimited Annual Support: $2,500.00

Non-Contact Technical Services are available at the following
rates:
Telephone Technical Support: $125.00/incident
Custom training at fP Center: $ 640.00/student/day or $80.00 / hour
On site Training/Consultation: $1,000.00/student/day plus expenses
Custom Programming Services, including application specific
programming, imports, exports, platform file transfers:
$150.00/hour plus expenses--or per quote
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filePro Discussion Board Now Online
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In order to facilitate the free flow of information between
fP Technologies and the filePro community we have established
The filePro Forum at http://www.fptechforum.com--a discussion
board designed to provide both public and private areas for all
filePro users.

The Forum provides areas for members of the filePro community to
find the latest fP Technologies news, filePro Support, product
discussion, and a filePro marketplace--for active developers to list
their products and services and for individuals to post help wanted
ads.

This discussion board is hosted and moderated by
fP Technologies. Participation in the forum implies agreement with
the forum rules (viewable under Forum Rules).

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We are nearing our 20,000th sale!
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This is obviously good news for us, but what does it mean for you?

Whoever places the 20,000 order will receive a complimentary 5
Incident Technical Support Contract (a $450.00 value)!

Under our new support contract options, an incident may pertain to
any filePro product.
For more details, please refer to our Technical Support Services
Agreement at http://www.fptech.com/Company/Docs/techserv.pdf
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Endnotes
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Do you have any questions or comments relating to this update?
Email me at ljkelly at fptech.com

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Thank You!

Lauren Kelly
ljkelly at fptech.com
fP Technologies
1.800.847.4740