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DataPerfect 2.6X (release date: Dec. 3, 2004)
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Message from Lew:
Dear friends of DataPerfect.
After a long delay I'm finally releasing this new version of DataPerfect, DP2.6X. I've cleaned up a few things, but the only real changes are to (hopefully) make it more useful as a command line web application.
I've done some things to make DP more robust for today's versions of Windows.
The sound generation code is gone. (No more beeps.) It used BIOS code that almost never works anymore.
The support of the old Hercules Monitor cards has been eliminated.
It adds the format suffix ;;W which performs conversions for web browser compatibility: for example & is converted to & and characters above 128 are converted to be equivalent the Latin character set characters.
Also bold and underline are replaced with <![CDATA[<B> and <U>]]>, etc.
It adds the format suffix ;;V for chaaracter strings only. If the report is in WP mode, this suffix suspends wp conversion for the string;
I refer to this as "raw" output. It is useful for creating artificial WP codes and is particularly useful for DPSpool codes. No change in DOS
mode.
I don't think I ever told anyone there is a command line option /IND
which cause the indexes to be be regenerated. Example:
DP TEST /IND
It may still show things on the display, but I'm trying to hunt those down and eliminate them.
There are four new command line options:
/W which translates characters into the standard web font, ISO Latin 1.
/EI=file specification
/U=userID:password, referenced as user.field[1] & user.field[2] in reports
If there is a userID panel, this must be correct or /EI will not succeed.
/SID=sessionID, referenced as user.field[0] in reports
/F5 Makes pressing F5 in DP work like it used to work before user integrity was implemented in version 2.3. It's a "hole" in security restrictions, but it speeds up some types of data entry.
Example:
DP C:STRUCTEST /W /EI=C:WORKALL.LOG /U=LEWIS:PASSWORD /SID=QWERTY
or
DP C:STRUCTEST /W /EI-C:WORKALL.LOG /U-LEWIS:PASSWORD /SID-QWERTY
Finally, there is a new command in transaction log files which will run a report.
#R:
=n=
runs report n in the report list. Caution, the built-in report is report 1, so report n+1 is use defined report n.
Example:
#R: comment for this report
=3=
runs user defined report 2.
More than one report can be executed in a log.
The philosopy of all this is that you, the user, builds a database for whatever it is you intend to do. Some of the reports are used to generate HTML text files in the ISO Latin 1 font. In order to control the running of a report, you use field values in one or more panels, and you use a transaction log file to create records in those panels and then run the report.
You will have to play with this for a while to explore how to use it, and you are very inventive people, so I suspect you'll find neat ways to use it, as well as some things you'd like to have added and very likely some bugs, since you are now the only testers I have.
I have included a database, TEST.STR, and a log file, ALL.LOG, to get you started.
Good luck!
Lew Bastian
Download: dp26x.zip
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