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<font face="Arial">Being a Microsoft software provider puts us at
the whim of Microsoft. The available dll's and other tools
needed to work with Microsoft are provided by Microsoft.<br>
<br>
When they update the C and C++ compilers that we use to create
filePro for Windows, we have to depend on the libraries being
available on the various versions of Windows in order for what we
compiled to work. Unfortunately when Microsoft elects to stop
supporting a version of Windows, those dll update and versions are
no longer available for those OS versions and our version of
filePro will not work without them. And on top of that, there are
only allowed certain public dll's that we can supply in our
install.<br>
<br>
So 5.8.XX.06 was the last compile that was compatible with what
Microsoft decided. When 5.8.XX.07 was compiled we were forced to
use the latest available libraries supplied through the license
agreement with Microsoft. Anything after 5.8.XX.06 will not run
on XP or Win 2003 Server.<br>
<br>
It is not that filePro stopped working, but that our updates would
not work with the no longer supported operating system versions.<br>
<br>
It is more like 'Backwards Compatibility' is not a feature of
Windows.<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/14/2018 3:57 PM, Fairlight via
Filepro-list wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Yeah, but "stopped updating" and "removed" are two entirely different
things.
Were the binaries -ever- working on the system in question, or did they
simply stop one day?
m->
On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 06:55:10PM +0000, Robert Haussmann via Filepro-list thus spoke:
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<pre wrap="">To follow up, we heard back from FP Support and it appears that only versions 5.8.07 and lower are supported on Windows XP/2003. Apparently Microsoft has stopped updating the necessary libraries for these OSes (as they are no longer supported).
Bob
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From: George Simon [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:flowersoft@compuserve.com">mailto:flowersoft@compuserve.com</a>]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2018 1:36 PM
To: Robert Haussmann <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:haussma@nextdimension.net"><haussma@nextdimension.net></a>; 'Filepro List'
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Subject: RE: filePro executables vs Win 2003
I am getting the same error message, not with filePro because I am
still running 5.0.14, but with an .exe program I use to get credit
card authorizations.
It only happens with Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP.
-----Original Message-----
From: Filepro-list
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On Behalf Of Robert Haussmann via Filepro-list
Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 4:50 PM
To: Filepro List <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:filepro-list@celestial.com"><filepro-list@celestial.com></a>
Subject: filePro executables vs Win 2003
Figure this is a long shot, but does anyone know if there were any
changes in recent versions of FP (32 bit) that would keep them from
working under Windows 2003? The latest (5.8.00.15R9) EXEs do not seem
to work ("dclerk.exe is not a valid WIN32 application") on Win2003,
but work just fine under Win 2008/2012 (these are 64 bit versions,
however we are downloading the 32 bit versions assuming it would be
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<pre wrap="">The 5.8.00.00D9 32-bit version works fine on all platforms.
Thanks,
Bob
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