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This is a multipart message in MIME format. -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] Once again, I bring up the example of a major software vendor who asked at their user convention if they would mind if they stopped supporting older versions and only supported versions of the OS that IBM supports. They got a standing ovation. Now the users had more clubs to beat their managers into upgrading the OS's on their machines. The vendor was quite happily surprised. Rob Berendt -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@commsoft.net> Sent by: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com 10/21/2002 08:16 AM Please respond to rpg400-l To: rpg400-l@midrange.com cc: Fax to: Subject: RE: Another one bites the dust >On the minus side, that means that in order to >support clients I have to avoid the newer stuff, Welcome to the world of software houses. There is a positive benefit to seeing the new functions come out even if I can't use them straightaway. It gives me ideas for ways to code my own functions. The point being that I can hand-code a function today and target the V4R2 compiler, but when all my customers move to a more modern release I can use the new functionality. I am working on a generic build/make tool that will toggle the proper version of the service program for the target release. It will help my RPG and CL code but not the Synon stuff. --buck _______________________________________________ This is the RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries (RPG400-L) mailing list To post a message email: RPG400-L@midrange.com To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/rpg400-l or email: RPG400-L-request@midrange.com Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives at http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l.
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