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filePro is a proprietary DBMS and RAD system originally developed by Howard Wolowitz as '''The Electric File Clerk''' in 1978, licensed it to Tandy in 1979 who first published it in 1980, the same year that The Small Computer Company became a corporation. Although there was a Profile for the I/III/IV, these were not made by small Computer. The filePro of today started out on the Model II and was first released by Tandy as "Profile II". After passing through several owners, the code is currently the property of FPTechnologies, Inc . Data is stored in fixed length record files. This is not a true Relational Database , because it does not satisfy Codd 's 12 laws, although the language does allow looking up data in one file while working in another. filePro, in fact, fully satisfies only the first of Codd 's 12 laws. It does, however, allow for rapid prototyping of Curses -like screens, and add-on products are available for client-side ODBC interoperability, Common Gateway Interface -like functionality, and even a form of SQL . While filePro supports limited data integrity checking at the table level, these checks can be overridden by code. There is limited support for triggers, and locking is done on a per-record basis, so that two users cannot update different fields in the same record simultaneously. While there is an fpGUI add-on for GUI-based access, filePro is still primarily character-based which many users assert makes for faster and more efficient data entry. There is, however, no support for screens larger than 24x80. Furthermore, the package maintains a dedicated community of developers, and there is a Mailing List based at http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/filepro-list and a voice chatroom available at http://www.valar.com/fp_room/fp_room_enter.htm |
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