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Re: [NF] Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaw Information
by Ken Dibble 04 Jan '18

04 Jan '18

I just can't wait to see what it's going to do to my highly virtualized network--if I ever decide to let it through. Probably a smaller version of what it's already started to do to some commercial cloud systems. Windows Automatic Updates: Just Say No. (TM) >Also, kudos to Microsoft for shipping their patches a week early, and >spontaneously rebooting idle Windows workstations while people were >freaking out over the new exploits. Good job! > >On Thu, Jan 4, 2018 at 12:27 PM, Ken Dibble <krdibble(a)stny.rr.com> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Ask Woody has a very thorough report on this, with links to more > > information. > > > > We all need to be fully informed about this; it is going to affect > > everybody. > > > > https://www.askwoody.com/ > > > > Ken Dibble > > www.stic-cil.org > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server]

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[NF] Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaw Information
by Ken Dibble 04 Jan '18

04 Jan '18

Hi folks, Ask Woody has a very thorough report on this, with links to more information. We all need to be fully informed about this; it is going to affect everybody. https://www.askwoody.com/ Ken Dibble www.stic-cil.org

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[NF] Export to PDF/FDF
by M Jarvis 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

Yep, still alive and kickin'.... I'm working up a proof-of-concept thing to add to our report writing engine, that being the ability to export our text based reports into a PDF. I know how to do the FDF creation part of this (thanks again Ted) but I seem to be coming up short in a couple of areas. I am using LibreOffice to create my PDF template file, and not sure if the problem lives in there or not. I add a textbox control to a document, save as PDF, and later the FDF merge works just fine. BUT if the text starts getting any longer than what fits into the textbox as I've laid it out in the PDF, scroll bars appear and the textbox doesn't expand. I'm not saying it *should* do so automatically, but I can't figure out how to do that or even if it's possible. Or, is there some other control available to LibreOffice I might try using that lets me FDF merge in files of large size? In a perfect world there wouldn't be any control visible to the user at all, just the text of the report. Some of our reports can be several thousand pages for Year-End stuff and all that... Installing any software such as CutePDF or other to help drive this isn't an option at this time. TIA, -- Matt Jarvis Eugene, Oregon USA --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html ---

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Future of FoxPro thread, 11 years ago
by Ted Roche 03 Jan '18

03 Jan '18

Cleaning out some document folders I came across some comments I'd clipped for preservation 11 years ago. I suppose if I'm ever going to think about them again, now might be a good time. Here's the thread: https://leafe.com/archives/full_thread/326485 Where were you in 2006, where are you in 2017/2018, and where will you be in a decade? -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com

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Re: Command Window:
by Gene Wirchenko 01 Jan '18

01 Jan '18

At 08:07 2018-01-01, Ted Roche <tedroche(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 5:20 AM, AndyHC <andy(a)hawthorncottage.com> wrote: > >> Just opened up a Command Window to list off 1/3 f stops - > >> - why the curious indentation? > >> > >> CLEAR > >> SET DECIMALS TO 2 > >> SET FIXED ON > >> x=1 > >> mc=2^(1/6) > >> FOR i = 1 TO 30 > >> x=x*mc > >> ?x > >> NEXT > >> ? > >Ah! See it now. That *IS* weird. Looks like two additional spaces >indented in the first 8 numbers. Perhaps related to their length? > >SET DECIMALS and SET FIXED are truly ancient xBase commands, and SET >commands in general -- either global in scope or scoped to a >datasession -- wreak all sorts of havoc with unintended side-effects. >It's a lot better to specify what you want in the actual command than >to depend on modifying the environment to suit program execution. > >Try this: > >FOR i = 1 TO 30 > ? ROUND((2^(1/6))^i,2) && compressed algorithm >NEXT > >Fixed and decimals and printing to the screen are all pretty >old-school, but you're running BASIC here, and not really FoxPro. It appears to be a bug. VFP seems to be calculating the output length based on fixed being off, then printing the fixed on value in that length right-justified. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko >-- >Ted Roche >Ted Roche & Associates, LLC >http://www.tedroche.com > [excessive quoting removed by server]

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ProFox List Statistics for 2017
by List Administrator Account 01 Jan '18

01 Jan '18

================================================== ProFox List Statistics 2017 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Year: ProFox: 291 ProFoxTech: 183 ================================================== Total Posts: 3509 (Down 2.77% from 2016) Total [OT] Posts: 43 (Down 14.0% from 2016) Total [NF] Posts: 1117 (Down 4.2% from 2016) Daily Message Counts for 2017 ------------------------------------------------ Date Count ---- ----- 1 - 145 2 - 103 3 - 90 4 - 77 5 - 123 6 - 158 7 - 132 8 - 124 9 - 122 10 - 154 11 - 122 12 - 135 13 - 139 14 - 148 15 - 67 16 - 107 17 - 94 18 - 76 19 - 98 20 - 194 21 - 117 22 - 64 23 - 51 24 - 110 25 - 98 26 - 128 27 - 175 28 - 125 29 - 86 30 - 76 31 - 71 Message Counts By Day of Week for 2017 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 114 Mon - 686 Tue - 653 Wed - 572 Thu - 635 Fri - 654 Sat - 195 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to 2016) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 118 (Up 6.31%) OT messages: 15 (Down 6.25%) NF messages: 75 (Up 2.74%) Total number: 118 (Up 6.31%) Top 20 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 509 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 282 Ted Roche 3. 206 Alan Bourke 4. 190 Dave Crozier 5. 187 Stephen Russell 6. 146 Richard Kaye 7. 141 Paul H. Tarver 8. 94 Thierry Nivelet 9. 89 Gene Wirchenko 10. 77 Ed Leafe 11. 68 AndyHC 12. 68 Paul Newton 13. 63 Tracy Pearson 14. 61 Fred Taylor 15. 55 Man-wai Chang 16. 54 Jürgen Wondzinski 17. 54 Kurt at VR-FX 18. 53 John Weller 19. 50 Kurt Wendt 20. 46 Michael Madigan Top 16 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 8 8% Gene Wirchenko 2. 5 3% Dave Crozier 3. 4 8% Michael Madigan 4. 4 8% Laurie Alvey 5. 3 100% Jürgen Wondzinski 6. 3 1% mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 7. 3 14% Jean Laeremans 8. 2 7% Charlie-gm 9. 2 13% Jerry Wolper 10. 2 4% Jürgen Wondzinski 11. 2 8% Paul Hill 12. 1 6% Michael Oke, II 13. 1 8% Jean MAURICE 14. 1 1% Ed Leafe 15. 1 2% Fred Taylor 16. 1 3% Eric Selje Top 20 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 153 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 112 Stephen Russell 3. 110 Ted Roche 4. 73 Alan Bourke 5. 60 Paul H. Tarver 6. 54 Dave Crozier 7. 33 Ed Leafe 8. 33 Gene Wirchenko 9. 29 Thierry Nivelet 10. 29 AndyHC 11. 24 Man-wai Chang 12. 23 Malcolm Greene 13. 22 Richard Kaye 14. 21 Ken Dibble 15. 20 Kurt at VR-FX 16. 19 John Weller 17. 16 Michael Madigan 18. 15 Charlie-gm 19. 15 Kevin J Cully 20. 14 Kurt Wendt Top 20 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 512 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 282 Ted Roche 3. 206 Alan Bourke 4. 195 Dave Crozier 5. 187 Stephen Russell 6. 146 Richard Kaye 7. 141 Paul H. Tarver 8. 97 Gene Wirchenko 9. 94 Thierry Nivelet 10. 78 Ed Leafe 11. 68 AndyHC 12. 68 Paul Newton 13. 63 Tracy Pearson 14. 62 Fred Taylor 15. 56 Jürgen Wondzinski 16. 55 Man-wai Chang 17. 54 Kurt at VR-FX 18. 53 John Weller 19. 50 Michael Madigan 20. 50 Kurt Wendt Top 20 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 106 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 52 Jürgen Wondzinski 3. 30 Stephen Russell 4. 27 Ted Roche 5. 22 Paul Newton 6. 17 Paul H. Tarver 7. 14 Dave Crozier 8. 13 List Administrator Account 9. 13 Gene Wirchenko 10. 11 Ed Leafe 11. 10 Michael Madigan 12. 8 Ken Dibble 13. 8 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 14. 8 Alan Bourke 15. 8 Rick Schummer 16. 7 John Weller 17. 6 rafael copquin 18. 6 Man-wai Chang 19. 5 Al 20. 4 Kurt Wendt Top 20 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 74 [NF] learn more about what you hate so much. 2. 56 [NF] PyQT for desktop applications 3. 49 Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach? 4. 40 [NF] [FW] Programming language life expectancy 5. 34 [NF] Do you prefer Digest Mode? 6. 31 [NF] Customer asking for (preferably free) unattended remote access software so she can access her work machine from home 7. 31 [NF] Open systems Drive you crazy 8. 31 [NF] Windows updates August problems? 9. 31 GETFILE() Returns Empty String in Some Cases 10. 30 "An IF | ELSE | ENDIF statement is missing" 11. 29 Diffing VCXs 12. 27 SQL Backend Question - Part Deux 13. 26 Outlook 2016 security no longer allowing VFP app to send emails as it did in the past 14. 25 VFP9SP2 apps on Citrix 15. 24 [NF] Python: 2.x vs 3.x 16. 24 e: [NF] PyQT for desktop applications 17. 23 SQLite Problem - DSN-less Connection Doesn't Create A File 18. 23 BitDefender Doesn't Play Well With VFP 19. 23 Running Multiple Instances of VFP 9 20. 23 [NF] Drop-Dead Simple USB Drive Encryption Top 14 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 10 [OT] Spent the past 4 days in London...and loved it!!!! 2. 7 [OT] Hallo 3. 5 [OT] [FW] Programming language life expectancy 4. 4 [OT] Test 5. 4 AW: [OT] Test 6. 4 [OT] Excessive Bounces E-mails 7. 2 [OT] Nothing here, move along 8. 1 [OT] Humour: I Work From Home 9. 1 [OT] Humour (was: VFP9SP2 app on Windows 10 -- reports not showing) 10. 1 [OT] Checking posts - cannot seem to see my own but option is set 11. 1 [OT] Non-Natives' English (was: SQL Backend Question - Part Deux) 12. 1 [OT] joke 13. 1 [OT] Google employee's anti-diversity manifesto. 14. 1 [OT] Non-Natives' English (was: SQL Backend Question - Part Deux) Top 20 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 74 [NF] learn more about what you hate so much. 2. 56 [NF] PyQT for desktop applications 3. 49 Getting count of rows in a text file -- best approach? 4. 40 [NF] [FW] Programming language life expectancy 5. 34 [NF] Do you prefer Digest Mode? 6. 31 [NF] Customer asking for (preferably free) unattended remote access software so she can access her work machine from home 7. 31 [NF] Open systems Drive you crazy 8. 31 [NF] Windows updates August problems? 9. 31 GETFILE() Returns Empty String in Some Cases 10. 30 "An IF | ELSE | ENDIF statement is missing" 11. 29 Diffing VCXs 12. 27 SQL Backend Question - Part Deux 13. 26 Outlook 2016 security no longer allowing VFP app to send emails as it did in the past 14. 25 VFP9SP2 apps on Citrix 15. 24 [NF] Python: 2.x vs 3.x 16. 24 e: [NF] PyQT for desktop applications 17. 23 SQLite Problem - DSN-less Connection Doesn't Create A File 18. 23 BitDefender Doesn't Play Well With VFP 19. 23 Running Multiple Instances of VFP 9 20. 23 [NF] Drop-Dead Simple USB Drive Encryption

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ProFox List Statistics for December 2017
by List Administrator Account 01 Jan '18

01 Jan '18

================================================== ProFox List Statistics December 2017 ================================================== Subscriber Count at End of Month: ProFox: 291 ProFoxTech: 183 ================================================== Total Posts: 333 (Down 4.31% from November 2017) Total [OT] Posts: 0 (Unchanged from November 2017) Total [NF] Posts: 109 (Down 2.68% from November 2017) Daily Message Counts for December 2017 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Date Count --- ---- ----- F 1 - 25 S 2 - 14 S 3 - 3 M 4 - 19 T 5 - 50 W 6 - 17 T 7 - 17 F 8 - 17 S 9 - 6 S 10 - 2 M 11 - 11 T 12 - 7 W 13 - 12 T 14 - 15 F 15 - 17 S 16 - 24 S 17 - 7 M 18 - 12 T 19 - 5 W 20 - 1 T 21 - 9 F 22 - 6 S 23 - 2 S 24 - 1 W 27 - 2 T 28 - 11 F 29 - 16 S 30 - 5 Message Counts By Day of Week for December 2017 ------------------------------------------------ DOW Count --- ----- Sun - 13 Mon - 42 Tue - 62 Wed - 32 Thu - 52 Fri - 81 Sat - 51 Distinct Posters to the List (changes relative to November 2017) ------------------------------------------------ Non-OT messages: 47 (Up 4.44%) OT messages: 0 (Unchanged) NF messages: 28 (Unchanged) Total number: 47 (Up 4.44%) Top 20 Contributors by Number of Non-OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 47 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 24 Stephen Russell 3. 21 Ted Roche 4. 20 Kurt at VR-FX 5. 20 Jürgen Wondzinski 6. 15 Paul Newton 7. 14 Paul H. Tarver 8. 12 Michael Oke, II 9. 11 Alan Bourke 10. 10 Kevin Cully 11. 10 Frank Cazabon 12. 10 AndyHC 13. 9 Mike 14. 9 Eric Selje 15. 8 Dave Crozier 16. 8 Ed Leafe 17. 7 Man-wai Chang 18. 7 Thierry Nivelet 19. 6 Ken Dibble 20. 6 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. Top 0 Contributors by Number of OT Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts OT% Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ Top 20 Contributors by Number of NF Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 15 Stephen Russell 2. 13 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 3. 11 Kurt at VR-FX 4. 10 Michael Oke, II 5. 7 Ted Roche 6. 6 Alan Bourke 7. 5 Ken Dibble 8. 5 AndyHC 9. 4 Paul Hill 10. 3 Paul H. Tarver 11. 3 Kevin Cully 12. 3 Man-wai Chang 13. 3 Dave Crozier 14. 3 Eric Selje 15. 2 Ed Leafe 16. 2 Mike 17. 2 Fred Taylor 18. 2 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 19. 1 Gianni Turri 20. 1 Peter Cushing Top 20 Contributors by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 47 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 2. 24 Stephen Russell 3. 21 Ted Roche 4. 20 Kurt at VR-FX 5. 20 Jürgen Wondzinski 6. 15 Paul Newton 7. 14 Paul H. Tarver 8. 12 Michael Oke, II 9. 11 Alan Bourke 10. 10 Kevin Cully 11. 10 Frank Cazabon 12. 10 AndyHC 13. 9 Mike 14. 9 Eric Selje 15. 8 Dave Crozier 16. 8 Ed Leafe 17. 7 Man-wai Chang 18. 7 Thierry Nivelet 19. 6 Ken Dibble 20. 6 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. Top 15 Contributors by Number of New Threads Started ------------------------------------------------ | Posts Contributor | ------------------------------------------------ 1. 18 Jürgen Wondzinski 2. 9 mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com 3. 7 Paul Newton 4. 6 Ted Roche 5. 3 Kurt at VR-FX 6. 2 Stephen Russell 7. 2 Charles Hart Enzer, M.D. 8. 1 List Administrator Account 9. 1 Mike 10. 1 Michael Madigan 11. 1 Thierry Nivelet 12. 1 Ed Leafe 13. 1 Paul H. Tarver 14. 1 Man-wai Chang 15. 1 Ken Dibble Top 20 Non-OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 23 BitDefender Doesn't Play Well With VFP 2. 21 What would you do? 3. 19 [NF] Duplicati 4. 17 Check my wording on this and tell me if I'm right 5. 17 NF - MYSQL Server Free Edition 6. 15 Designing archives into your VFP-backend application 7. 15 [NF] Restart now or later? 8. 14 [NF] How about this alternative to purchasing a new machine? 9. 13 [ADMIN] bounced off the list 10. 12 [NF] Chat tool for businesses (but not Skype or Facebook Messenger) 11. 11 Adding an object to the _VFP.Objects collection 12. 11 [NF] Anyone working within the cloud? 13. 10 Shrinking/compressing PDFs 14. 9 Web browser control 15. 9 Kaspersky AV (was BitDefender Doesn't Play Well With VFP) 16. 9 Searching for FoxPro Work & a Change in Work Status... 17. 8 [ADMIN] Hiccup 18. 7 [NF] Learn about Power BI webinar 19. 7 [NF] Disappointed in Dell 20. 6 2 VFP sessions running; 1 hangs and so does the other Top 0 OT Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ Top 20 Threads by Total Number of Posts ------------------------------------------------------------------ | Posts Subject | ------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. 23 BitDefender Doesn't Play Well With VFP 2. 21 What would you do? 3. 19 [NF] Duplicati 4. 17 Check my wording on this and tell me if I'm right 5. 17 NF - MYSQL Server Free Edition 6. 15 Designing archives into your VFP-backend application 7. 15 [NF] Restart now or later? 8. 14 [NF] How about this alternative to purchasing a new machine? 9. 13 [ADMIN] bounced off the list 10. 12 [NF] Chat tool for businesses (but not Skype or Facebook Messenger) 11. 11 Adding an object to the _VFP.Objects collection 12. 11 [NF] Anyone working within the cloud? 13. 10 Shrinking/compressing PDFs 14. 9 Web browser control 15. 9 Kaspersky AV (was BitDefender Doesn't Play Well With VFP) 16. 9 Searching for FoxPro Work & a Change in Work Status... 17. 8 [ADMIN] Hiccup 18. 7 [NF] Learn about Power BI webinar 19. 7 [NF] Disappointed in Dell 20. 6 2 VFP sessions running; 1 hangs and so does the other

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Re: Designing archives into your VFP-backend application
by Gene Wirchenko 30 Dec '17

30 Dec '17

At 07:47 2017-12-29, mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: >I've seen long-time softwares with VFP backends that had a ton of >data (10+ years worth) and I had devised a method in one case >recently to be able to "archive" old data by storing it in a >subfolder intelligently (so it could be easily retrieved and/or >reimported into the main data set). I haven't used a VFP backend >since 2004 when Bob Lee introduced me to the MySQL world but >nonetheless I thought I'd ask if devs here ever put anything like an >"archiving" feature into their software, and how they do it. In my >case, instead of slinging 600MB of data across the network (in the >case of one of my clients), my archiving showed a reduction of like >75%, so only 25% of that was being pulled across the LAN >instead. (They didn't need all the data from the beginning of the >App's time...they just needed relevant/recent data.) > >I realize that with MySQL and other such RDBMSes this is a >non-issue, but I wanted to ask the VFP-backend folks their approach >to this for the sake of (hopefully) interesting discussion. One >final juicy thread before 2017 is finished. :-) I added an archive/dearchive to my client billing app years ago. The tables that we were concerned about were the work transaction table and the invoice table. Archive up to a selected date. It is ad hoc. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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Your cleanup program
by mbsoftwaresolutions＠mbsoftwaresolutions.com 30 Dec '17

30 Dec '17

I wanted to share mine with you. I'm sure it's stuff I've collected from here from Ted and others over the years. After debugging and clicking "Fix", I often would encounter some bizarro VFP bug whereby my IDE would freeze. I added code into my cleanup routine to close out the debugger window and that saved me so much frustration over the years. ON ERROR ON SHUTDOWN SQLDISCONNECT(0) SET SYSMENU TO DEFAULT CLEAR ALL CLEAR RESOURCES _screen.Caption = VERSION(4) + " Development (" + CURDIR() + ")" _screen.Picture = "" DEFINE BAR 8 OF _MTOOLS PROMPT "\-" DEFINE BAR 9 OF _MTOOLS PROMPT "Force quit" ON SELECTION BAR 9 OF _MTOOLS do c:\dev\progs\quitfox.prg REMOVEPROPERTY(_screen,'oTables') && mjb 02-21-15 SET PROCEDURE TO MODIFY PROJECT c:\dev\YourProject.pjx NOWAIT CLEAR IF WVISIBLE("Visual Foxpro Debugger") THEN RELEASE WINDOWS "Visual Foxpro Debugger" ENDIF and my QuitFox.prg is simply this: Declare ExitProcess in Win32API Long ExitProcess(1) Happy New Year! Still rocking the Fox after all these years yet! --Mike

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Re: Designing archives into your VFP-backend application
by Gene Wirchenko 29 Dec '17

29 Dec '17

At 10:21 2017-12-29, mbsoftwaresolutions(a)mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: >On 2017-12-29 12:18, Gene Wirchenko wrote: [snip] >> I added an archive/dearchive to my client billing app years ago. >>The tables that we were concerned about were the work transaction >>table and the invoice table. Archive up to a selected date. It is ad >>hoc. >THAT'S what I'm talking about. I'll be this feature really gives >your app twice the shelf-life too since it can basically hold almost >up to TWICE as much as a single maximum with this design! > >Nice touch. Another thing to take away from this is to listen to the users. My boss suggested this. This was something that could be implemented quickly and easily, too. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko

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