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<DIV>I wonder how old Ken is?????????</DIV>
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<DIV>When you guys get done with your steak sandwich, hop over to Chicago and I'll take you out for a real pizza & beer.</DIV>
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<DIV>Rick Hane</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Richard Kreiss <rkreiss@verizon.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> john@valar.com; filepro-list@lists.celestial.com<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thu, March 4, 2010 4:14:46 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: NEW BLOB FIX!!!! RE: Birthday coming soon<BR></FONT><BR>John,<BR><BR>60 is OK. The problems start at 63. That's when everything seems to start<BR>failing. I am 66, will be 67 in May and have too many parts removed. No<BR>doctor has offered to put anything in, just take it out.<BR><BR>I am still doing things many younger men won't or can't do. you're correct,<BR>age is a state of mind, think young, stay active and do the things you want.<BR>That's what make life fun.<BR><BR>Happy birthday.<BR><BR>Richard<BR><BR>PS: How about meeting in Philadelphia for a steak sandwich?<BR><BR>>
-----Original Message-----<BR>> From: filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=<A href="mailto:verizon.net@lists.celestial.com" ymailto="mailto:verizon.net@lists.celestial.com">verizon.net@lists.celestial.com</A><BR>[mailto:filepro-<BR>> list-bounces+rkreiss=<A href="mailto:verizon.net@lists.celestial.com" ymailto="mailto:verizon.net@lists.celestial.com">verizon.net@lists.celestial.com</A>] On Behalf Of John<BR>Esak<BR>> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 9:11 AM<BR>> To: <A href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" ymailto="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</A><BR>> Subject: NEW BLOB FIX!!!! RE: Birthday coming soon<BR>> <BR>> Ken,<BR>> <BR>> Hold on with the birthday stuff... This is important...<BR>> <BR>> There is a MAJOR (and I mean MAJOR) blob fix in the latest filePro. I<BR>> discovered the problem about 6 months ago when our blobs were just getting<BR>> SO huge. The
fix brings blobs down to exactly the size they should be<BR>> (which is actually quite small)... You can easily calculate how big your<BR>> blobs should be with a simple multiplication in the exact same way you<BR>> calculate key size. I'm talking about using blob fields as MEMO edit type<BR>> here. The Blob file has space added to it in 8k chunks. So, as your text<BR>> moves up past an 8k boundary, a new 8k chunk is attached to the file. If<BR>> your blobs are gigantic, hell if they are simply bigger than the amount of<BR>> text you have per memo dividing exactly into the blob file size...<BR>> Remembering that you might have just 1 extra 8k chunk for the first<BR>> available free space... Then you NEED the latest version. Actually, this<BR>is<BR>> an absolute bug, if you use the MEMO edit type in your map, this error<BR>> *will* happen to you. By getting the new version (I guess that would be<BR>>
5.6.10 now or is it 11?) you can run the new "blobfix" program that comes<BR>> with it, and shrink/fix your blob files on the order of 2Gb files become<BR>3Mb<BR>> and similar. It simply makes the blobs infinitely more stable. There was<BR>a<BR>> time when the blobs I used as MEMO type were so unstable that I always<BR>> passed and used some other text saving method. Now, I use the MEMO<BR>> function<BR>> everywhere and they are solid as anything else I could muster up. It's<BR>> actually nice to have the feature. Now all we need is a better printing<BR>> function for them. A while back I posted a method for being able to TAB<BR>into<BR>> and out of MEMO fields on the screen. I feel they need to act similar to<BR>> the way other fields on the screen work... But that is just my hang-up.<BR>> There are lots of great uses for the MEMO exactly as they are. One last<BR>> thing... I'm not sure if the
PageUp and PageDwn while in a text (MEMO)<BR>field<BR>> has been fixed. In previous versions it didn't work, and I think that is a<BR>> must fix to make the MEMO editor have the look and feel anyone would<BR>expect.<BR>> Ken told me one time that he thought it should work and was surprised to<BR>> find out it didn't, so it may have been another bug fixed in the new<BR>> version. I didn't put it in as a specific bug report, so maybe that's<BR>still<BR>> hanging out, don't know.<BR>> <BR>> But if you're having problems with MEMO/BLOB's being unstable and WAY too<BR>> big, you need to get the new version. I think anything to do with file<BR>size,<BR>> (like ddefine and other executables have the fix in them.<BR>> <BR>> Now, birthday stuff. 51 to 61 was a horrendous decade for me... At 50 is<BR>> when I lost my sight. It kind of ruined any of the good stuff that was<BR>> happening else wise like grandkids, having
enough money for things I<BR>always<BR>> wanted, making a nice house and home... Relaxing a little, etc. You I<BR>hope,<BR>> should be doing all those things and really enjoying it. But, don't let<BR>> those muscles go down. I remember when you could do *pull-ups* on my door<BR>> frame... Hanging by your fingertips!!! Go on an Outreach trip or<BR>> something... Just don't fall into Mt. Saint hellen. :-)<BR>> <BR>> Funny, you're listing to blues lately... Remember when we loved the Rock<BR>so<BR>> much. And there were great bands to go hear like Happy The Man. I, too,<BR>am<BR>> playing a lot of blues. (I still love Blue Grass, and am going to see<BR>> Allisyn Krauss in May at Gettysburg...) but Saturday night I'll be playing<BR>> Rock Me Babe, and A Man In Love (a Clapton tune on "Money And Cigarettes")<BR>> also, two of my own bluesy things... Oh, yeah, also Cripple Creek (The<BR>> Band...
Old standby's like that just never die. "She told me just to come<BR>> on by if there was anything that she could do..." [and she could do a lot<BR>of<BR>> things! :-)]).<BR>> <BR>> Am I getting punctuation crazy in my old age? Truly, if it matters, over<BR>60<BR>> and I don't feel like it's old age... Not until I try and get up after<BR>> sitting on the floor for a while... Or when my fingers cramp up after two<BR>> songs... Or any number of other things... But inside... In my head, where<BR>it<BR>> counts... I'm about 25. :-)<BR>> <BR>> Take care,<BR>> <BR>> John<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> > -----Original Message-----<BR>> > From: ken white [mailto:<A href="mailto:kenwhite@verizon.net" ymailto="mailto:kenwhite@verizon.net">kenwhite@verizon.net</A>]<BR>> > Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 8:33 AM<BR>> > To: <A href="mailto:john@valar.com"
ymailto="mailto:john@valar.com">john@valar.com</A><BR>> > Subject: Re: Birthday coming soon<BR>> ><BR>> > 61 - woof, that must mean I will be 51 soon.<BR>> ><BR>> > What are differences between 48 and 51 ?<BR>> > Quantity of Hair and Hair color<BR>> > Need glasses to read<BR>> > Tinnitus<BR>> > Injury's take longer to heal<BR>> > Finding muscles not used in years to shovel snow<BR>> > I listen to the blues more than rock and roll<BR>> ><BR>> > What do I have to look forward to over the next 10 years?<BR>> ><BR>> > On a side note: How is the quality of the current release of<BR>> > filepro? DSI<BR>> > has random blob/memo corruption problems on 5.6.06D4,<BR>> > thinking of upgrading<BR>> > them over the weekend with my fingers crossed.<BR>> ><BR>> > Happy Bday<BR>> ><BR>> ><BR>>
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