Release notes - filePro Plus 5.6
fP 5.6.10 - 12/08/2009
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5.6.10 Release Notes
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(Nix)
Fixed a bug introduced where @sk did not hold special key when
exiting a browse.
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5.6.09 Release Notes
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(All)
The SYSTEM() function would give a syntax error on some platforms.
(All) #1063
blobfix now takes command line parameters:
blobfix [filename | -] ( -m qualifier )
(Windows) #1074
fpcopy would give a "cannot create new file" error upon doing a "copy
file formats only".
(Quickstart only) #1104
Executing a LOOKUP in a processing table, CALLing another table
which executes a LOOKUP to the same file, and then CLOSEs that
lookup, can cause filePro to crash and/or give unusual errors
upon re-executing the LOOKUP in the original processing table.
(All) #1105
The configuration editor did not allow an equals sign to appear in
the value of a setting.
(All) #1106
Under certain circumstances, CLOSEDIR() could cause filePro to hang
or crash.
(All) #1108
A new config variable, PFPRTFIND=logfilename, was added to help
debug problems in resolving printer name to destination.
(All) #1109
In request output, if you execute a CALL in sort/select processing,
and then execute a CLOSE in output processing with no intervening
CALLs, filePro would crash.
(All) #?
The SYSTEM() function would give a syntax error on some platforms.
(All) #596
blobfix did not properly fix qualified blob files.
(fPSQL) #701
fPSQL queries that selected based on associated fields behaved
differently if an index was built on that associated field group.
(All) #865
Selection sets did not properly compare memo fields no empty.
For example, if field 6 is a memo field:
6 ne <nothing>
all recods would be selected, even those where field 6 is empty.
(All) #1078
fpconfig did not allow values which contained an equals sign ('=').
(SCO OSR5) #1031
fpcopy on SCO OSR5 did not copy files whose name was longer than
14 characters.
(fPSQL) #1060
fPSQL on some systems would crash on queries using associated fields.
(All) #1067
dxmaint did not override PFQUAL of passed -m "" on the command line.
(All) #1094
A printer with a destination of "LOCAL" was not recognized as
setting the destination to the local printer.
(fPSQL) #1111
fPSQL could not use "filename.fieldname" format if the filename
started with a digit.
Note that, with this change, invalid numeric literals such as
"123b4" will now give an "unknown field" error rather than an
"invalid numeric literal" error.
(All) #1112
When converting from a non-time field to an HMS field, the conversion
would not be correct if the input field were longer than 8 characters,
or the hours value was larger than 99, regardless of the length of
the destination field.
(SCO OSR5)
Add a new variable, PFRENEWTIMEOUT=nnn, to control the license renew
message timeout on SCO OSR5. The value "nnn" is the number of seconds
between renewal messages, and can be any number from 2 to 600. The
default is 60.
Note that this variable is unnecessary, and ignored, on other platforms.
Connectivity issues on OSR5 (cabling, router, TCP/IP stack, network
congestion) can cause unexpected delays in OSR5 filePro programs (some
long enough to seem like program hangs). Reducing the value of the
license renew timeout messages can reduce and even eliminate these
delays.
(*nix)
The following environment variables will be set within filePro if the
license server is not being used:
PFPID - the process id of the filePro program.
PFSID - the session id of the filePro program.
PFLICENSESUSED - the number of licenses that filePro shows to be
currently in use.
PFPROCESSCOUNT - the number of license-counted programs that filePro
shows to be currently running this may be higher than the number
of licenses used since multiple sessions with the same session
id will only use one license count.
(Windows) #1114
fP-SQL would crash when opening an ODBC alien file.
(All) #1115
fPcopy would crash on a very long filename.
(Windows) #1116
If the code:
handle = new odbc_connection(dsn) failed due to a license
failure, "handle" would remain unchanged. The typical symptom
would be seen as "odbc_conection returned a blank value".
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5.6.08 Release Notes
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(Windows) #1016
ddefine did not allow filenames with "." in Windows
(Linux) #1018
showlock did not display all locked records Linux
(All) #1026
Only one index was deleted when selecting multiple indexes in ddir/dprodir
(All) #1072 - enhancement
GETENV("PFREADONLY") will now return "ON" if the "-ro" flag is used, even
if not set in the environment.
(Quickstart) #1075
If you have a label "foo" and another "foo-bar" (ie: the same prefix, with
a hyphen and a suffix added), references to "foo-bar" would refer to "foo"
if "foo" occurs earler in the processing.
(All) #1068
If you had something following the "b=(expression)" part of a browse
lookup which "looks" like part of a valid expression, filePro would
take that as part of the "b=(expression)" part of the browse lookup.
For example:
lookup foo k=xx i=a -nx b=(brwhead&brwdata) *2"
(If, for example, you were to edit the lookup line to remove a literal
browse lookup, and missed the trailing "*2".)
(All) #1021
In dcabe, if you load a processing table with a DECLARE GLOBAL and syntax
check it, and then load and syntax check another processing table which has
the same DECLARE GLOBAL name, but a different definition, you would get an
"already defined" warning.
(All) #1040
EXIT in @ONCE processing didn't exit *report.
(Linux) #974
Website didn't allow license to be downloaded when using Domain Name
as the license check value for Linux systems.
(All) #975
The following flags have been added to swapcpu:
-Q = Quiet mode. Suppresses "file already in destination order".
-CN = Convert to native byte order.
-CF = Convert to foreign byte order.
(All) #977
swapcpu didn't swap the "blob" file.
(All) #982
PFMBTO only caused the first message box to time out. All subsequent
message boxes still required Enter.
(Windows) #1016
On Windows, ddefine did not allow you to create or access files with
a dot in the filename.
(Linux) #1071
On some systems, a fresh filePro install would fail with "fatal error
check current user count: invalid argument".
(All) #1077
filePro 5.6 is now available on FreeBSD.
(All) #1088
Calling READLINE() with an uncast dummy field, which has never been
assigned a value, and not including a maximum length, could crash
filePro.
(All) #1099
There was a memory leak in nested CALLs which has been fixed.
(All) #1100
Under some circumstances, filePro would not use the available free
space in the blob file for new blobs/memos, causing the blob file to
grow larger than needed.
Note that the updated blobfix utility can be used to "fix" this, and
shrink the blob file to the "correct" size.
(All) #1101
If you have a lookup to a file that has an automatic index built on
an associated field group, but the lookup is not on that index, it
was possible for filePro to crash.
(All) #1102
Executing a LOOKUP in a processing table, CALLing another table
which executes a LOOKUP to the same file, and then CLOSEs that
lookup, can cause filePro to crash and/or give unusual errors
upon re-executing the LOOKUP in the original processing table.
(Linux) #1103
The Linux distribution included an old "lib/rename" utility, which
wouldn't run on some current Linux distributions.
(*nix) #1014
User-count debug logging can now be controlled via the new config
variable "PFCHKUSER=logfilename".
(All)
xfer now handles the blob file.
(*nix)
filePro could crash in some debugging modes of the system environment
variable MALLOC_CHECKS.
(*nix) #1070/#1096/#1097/#1098
Some places in filePro didn't properly require double-break.
(*nix)
Debug versions hard-coded the user-count logging filename. This is
now controlled with PFCHKUSER=logfilename.
(All)
OPENDIR() could crash if given a directory with thousands of files,
all in alphabetical order.
(All)
If a user menu's title and version number filled the space allotted,
filePro could crash.
(*nix)
On some *nix systems, DEL (when not used as the Break key) would not
be treated as a backspace.
