DO NOT update the utilities and toolkits of a version 4 system with the utilities and toolkits of a Version 5 release.

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1 ProvideX Version README File - Jun 2003 Release Notes for Version 5.11 (CVSChngs^ ) Maintenance Release Best Software Canada Ltd 8920 Woodbine Avenue Suite 204 Markham, Ontario L3R 9W9 Tel Section 1) Language Level Enhancements, Additions, & Changes Section 2) WindX Section 3) NOMADS Section 4) Data Dictionary Section 5) Data Views - Add-on Package #20008 Section 6) NOMADS Customizer - Add-on Package #20007 Section 7) Smart Grid and Smart Files - Add-on Package #20005 Section 8) Application Parameters Section 9) Utilities Section 10) WebServer & Internet Toolkit Section 11) Application Server - Add-on Package #20009 Section 12) Oracle Call Interface (OCI) Section 13) ProvideX OLE Server - Add-on Package #20011 *** NOTES *** All "New" or "Added" items in this readme require a Version 5 activation key to work. Due to the extensive changes in the utilities and application tools (NOMADS, etc.) for Version 5 features, Best Software Canada Ltd. cannot guarantee that any of the utilities or tools other than the executables and associated DLL's, will work on installations with Version 4 or earlier activation keys. To obtain interpreter fixes for installations with pre-version 5 activation keys, you can install the executables (pvxwin32.exe and pvxwactv.exe) and the associated DLL files (pvxgrid.dll, pvximg.dll, pvxchart.dll, pvxocx32.dll, libeay32.sll and ssleay32.dll) onto systems with version 4 or earlier activation keys. DO NOT update the utilities and toolkits of a version 4 system with the utilities and toolkits of a Version 5 release. Section 1. Language Level Enhancements, Additions, & Changes Grid Changes / Enhancements Corrected the resizing of grid headings, so that when grid resizing was turned off, the headers could not be resized Modified the column width logic to add size checks when resizing columns. Limited the row heading to no more than half the width of the grid. Limited the column heading width to the size of the grid less any row heading size. These two changes help avoid the user resizing the columns such that the horizontal scroll bar is rendered unusable.

2 Corrected Button style controls on grids so that they would show focus. Previously, Buttons on the grid did not have a focus rectangle Corrected the INSERT/DELETE and DECIMAL Key Logic. These keys required the user to press them twice before actually editing the cell Changed Grid drop lists to make sure focus returns to grid properly Changed the Drop down box creation logic to allow the drop down box in a grid to exist outside the grid window thus providing more space for the drop down list Changed the GRID READ logic to resolve a problem that occurs when issuing too many GRID READS. Previously, issuing a GRID READ without an actual Grid Event being generated by the grid would produce an EOF error since the GRID READ actually reads from a queue. This has been changed to return the contents of the current cell and allows the QUERY to work properly with Grids Correction to avoid generating a signal when the user canceled an EDIT by pressing Escape Changed the logic that restricts the header widths and heights to assure they don't overrun the grid. They are now ALL limited to 1/2 the grid size for headers and limited to grid size itself to standard rows/columns Corrected a problem with Input queuing for the Grid which could result in lost input data Corrected a problem with the Auto-fit (BestFit) logic that didn't take into account rows that were scrolled off the top of the currently visible grid Fixed a minor bug in the displaying of some Color/Colour properties New logic to make the grid auto skip over locked cells (other than buttons) when using the TAB or Arrow keys Buttons with Drop Down Menus Added logic to allow the user to press SHIFT and ALT-<Accelerator key> to invoke the drop down selection Added logic to enable the DOWN arrow to invoke the drop down selection Enhanced the SHIFT-ALT-hotkey button logic so that the popup menu would be placed correctly. Previously, the mouse position would be used for placement even though the mouse may not be visible when using the SHIFT-ALT key sequence. The event that used to trigger the popup menu is now used to determine the location of the popup menu Enhanced the TCB() function, adding: TCB(33) - System serial number TCB(34) - System machine class TCB(35) - System identification number TCB(39) - Highest used object identifier (zero = No Objects in system) Corrected an issue with "ON <specific keyword>" in the syntax checker. Certain keywords such as "CONTROL" when used with an ON would return an err=20 in version 5.10.

3 1.5 - Improved the handling of internal temporary memory. There were specific cases in nested conditions where memory was not being released Resolved an issue with NULL multi-lines which did not properly take into account a single digit output Corrected issue that will avoid GPF when providing an excessively long FMT= string on list boxes Corrected dynamic window sizing to assure proper window size and scroll bar display when adjusting width Resolved a problem which caused an CTL value of ZERO to be put into the object queue. This resolved an issue where MULTI_LINE READ 0 or other inquiries to object 0 could return an err= Resolved a problem with V/H_SCROLLBAR WINDOW where properties of these objects could not be accessed Corrected the 'Value property for radio buttons. 'Value was listed as a property but was inaccessible Improved and corrected redrawing of windows to force a redraw of the window frame Corrected logic in 'Expanded property for tree views. Setting item to 0 then setting 'Expanded was supposed to expand / collapse the complete tree Corrected an issue with freeing of intermediate results of Global multi-line functions Resolved problems involved with static data being used when recursively calling sub programs Corrected the ListView format parser to prevent a GPF when an invalid format was supplied Added Object information to a DUMP(). When using a DUMP() command within an object, the currently values of the Properties as well as normal variables will be shown in the DUMP() output Improved object debugging information by including the object number that created a sub-object. In the information window (ALT-<Space>, About, Info Button) the object information displayed now includes the Object ID which created an object, where applicable Corrected a memory overrun condition caused after allocating 1000 object property names Changes to the OOP logic to deal with some problems that occur when freeing objects. The main problem was during system shutdown. A brute force freeing of objects didn't always work and could leave objects if, during the deletion of an object, a new object was created Adjusted the colour of text for disabled XP-style Check box and radio button controls. First change was a fix to a problem in that the Disable3DEtch was being checked for disabled text colour, which it shouldn't for XP style. The second change was made to the colour algorithm so the actual disabled colour used is a 72% blend of the background colour and the text colour. This allows controls which set

4 the text colour to have a more visual disabled look since the only difference on a disabled checkbox itself is the border going to dark grey Corrected a problem that involved initially hitting F5 from command mode where loading of *control from disk is required. Occurred only when in a WindX session Resolved an access violation for 'null' compressed records Resolved a GPF with extended record files Fixed a problem where a "WHERE" clause in a SELECT statement had an auto increment field Restricted access to the file number currently being opened when in the password prompting routine or the Get_Password entrypoint of the Embedded I/O program. This change affects the UNT, HFN, GFN variables. An error 14 will be reported when attempting to OPEN a file using the same channel # from inside the Get_Password routine -- even though the channel does not show up in the CHN variable Prevented a GPF as a result of continually calling the Get_Password routine. Also, limited the number of attempts to call Get_Password to 127 to prevent an endless loop in an application that does not properly check TCB(68) Changed reporting to an error 121 when the Get_Password routine is called and the EIO program is missing (previously would report an error 53 after calling *cmd/get_pswd) Resolved an issue with reporting an error 55 on a passworded file using an Embedded I/O routine without a PRE_CLOSE entrypoint and entering an invalid password Resolved an issue where the auto-increment counter was not reset to 0 (zero) during an OPEN PURGE Limited total key lengths to 127 and 240 for primary and secondary keys respectively to prevent memory from being stepped on by very large key definitions. This affects ProvideX KEYED statements, [ODB] and [OCI] definitions Limited internal dictionary record size to avoid stepping on memory Corrected keywords for the 'OPTION'() mnemonic and the FIN() function that were listed incorrectly in pvx510.txt. The new syntax and KeyWord$ items are described below: Syntax: PRINT 'OPTION'(KeyWord$,Value$), Where: KeyWord$ Value$ is a case-insensitive string expression of a named property is a string expression of the value to set the named property to. Current Valid KeyWords are described below.

5 The following items are colours, and are set as colour Names, as in "Light Gray" (same as Text or BackColour in GUI Objects) or by using "RGB: nnn,nnn,nnn" RGB values. "BtnFocusHilight" "BtnHoverHilight" "BtnFaceClr" "BtnFrameClr" "CbxMarkClr" "RbtMarkClr" "FrameTextClr" - Changes colour of Focus highlight - Changes colour of Mouse Over highlight - Changes standard button face colour - Changes standard button/check box/radio button frame colour - Sets the colour of the check mark or 'X' in a check box - Sets the colour of the ball within a radio button - Sets the colour of the text in a 'FRAME' The following KeyWord$ items set strings of numerical values, either from 0 to 100 (for colours) or -100 to 100 (for percentages) depending on the specific option: "BtnNormTopPct" "BtnNormTopClr" "BtnNormMidPct" "BtnNormMidClr" "BtnNormBtmPct" "BtnNormBtmClr" "BtnNormMiddle" "BtnDownTopPct" "BtnDownTopClr" "BtnDownMidPct" "BtnDownMidClr" "BtnDownBtmPct" "BtnDownBtmClr" "BtnDownMiddle" "FrameTextClr" "CtlFrameClr" Lightness applied to face at the top of normal button. Colour for blend at the top of normal button. Lightness applied to face in middle of normal button. Colour for blend at in middle of normal button. Lightness applied to face at the bottom of normal button. Colour for blend at the bottom of normal button. Mid point percentage from the top of normal button. Lightness applied to face at the top of pushed button. Colour for blend at the top of pushed button. Lightness applied to face in middle of pushed button. Colour for blend at in middle of pushed button. Lightness applied to face at the bottom of pushed button. Colour for blend at the bottom of pushed button. Mid point percentage from the top of pushed button. Colour of any text used in a frame. Colour of lines in a frame. EXAMPLE: PRINT(0)'Option'("BtnNormMidClr","RGB: 192,192,192"), PRINT(0)'Option'("BtnDownBtmPct","-75"), Corrected an issue where a Button could appear with a white background instead of the normal light gray Resolved a GPF when reading large records (greater than 20K) or large columns (greater than 8192 bytes) through the [ODB] interface Applied the TextMax= size limit to individual columns when using the [ODB] interface Corrected a problem with wrong font sizes being returned in the 'Font$ property.

6 The ODBC access layer in ProvideX "[ODB]" is now loaded dynamically. The DLL files required by ProvideX will not be loaded when ProvideX is initially run, but instead will load only on the first use of "[ODB]". This reduces the memory footprint of ProvideX under Windows when not using ODBC access in a program, and removes the need to ship ODBC files (MDAC) with the ProvideX Installations Increased the maximum file name length for the GET_FILE_BOX directive from 128 characters to 256 characters Revised [ODB] buffer and field size calculation for DSN-only connections (No Table specified). A default block size of 16K will be used for DSN-only [ODB] connections when no BSZ= is specified during the OPEN. If no TextMax= is specified on the OPEN then a default of 8192 will be used Eliminated the need to have a PRE_KEC entrypoint in an Embedded I/O routine when issuing a SELECT with an END value. This change is further to item in pvx510.txt Resolved a GPF that could occur if an Embedded I/O routine returned data during the PRE_READ call when reading by a KEY value Changed ASCII text Program file load logic to only reject serial files whose 1st line has characters less than a space (and not a tab) as opposed to characters < a space or > hex 7F Corrected a problem with the wrong error code being returned on a non-existent function call within OOPS. It used to return an error 25 (Invalid function) instead of an error 88 - invalid property/method Addressed an issue where focus would not appear on a subsequent button when Shift+Tabbing from one button to another with the '!W' system parameter enabled Added support for Null Keys on Sort files based on the 'NK' system parameter. Note: Files created with this version of ProvideX will not function correctly with previous versions when Null Keys are used and the 'NK' parameter is enabled Improved the handling of segmented files when multiple ProvideX tasks use different 'MB' system parameter settings, and, the first file segment is created while different tasks are concurrently updating the file Updated SSL Layer to OpenSSL 0.9.7b. User's may obtain the OpenSSL.EXE and OpenSSL.CNF files for MS Windows 32Bit environments, so they may create the RSA Private Keys, and CSR's (Certificate Signing Requests) by downloading the following file from our ftp site: ftp://ftp.pvx.com/miscellaneous/openssl/openssl.win32.097b.zip To obtain certificates from a Certificate Authority (CA) you should tell the CA that you need a certificate for an OpenSSL application or for the Apache web server, which also uses OpenSSL to provide SSL encrypted sockets. Changed the code to handle Intermediate (chained) SSL Certificates which are certificate files with two, or three certificates (or more, up to 9). rather than just allowing a single master certificate.

7 NOTE: The load order of certificates is critical. ProvideX requires the Private Key and Certificates to be in the SAME file. The order of certificates in the file is critical. The order is the highest certificate in the file is for the domain, then next would be for the Intermediate Certificate Authority, and the last certificate in the file would be the Root Certificate Authority: Example - 3 Certificates -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- GOOBLEDYGOOKCHARACTERS -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- YOUR LOCAL DOMAIN CERTIFICATE -----END CERTIFICATE BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- THE INTERMEDIATE CA CERTIFICATE -----END CERTIFICATE BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- THE ROOT CA CERTIFICATE -----END CERTIFICATE----- Example - 2 Certificates -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- GOOBLEDYGOOKCHARACTERS -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- YOUR LOCAL DOMAIN CERTIFICATE -----END CERTIFICATE BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- A BUNDLE CERTIFICATE OF BOTH THE INTERMEDIATE CA CERTIFICATE AND THE ROOT CA CERTIFICATE -----END CERTIFICATE----- Example - 1 Certificate -----BEGIN RSA PRIVATE KEY----- GOOBLEDYGOOKCHARACTERS -----END RSA PRIVATE KEY BEGIN CERTIFICATE----- A BUNDLE CERTIFICATE OF YOUR LOCAL DOMAIN CERTIFICATE AND THE ROOT CA CERTIFICATE -----END CERTIFICATE----- Also, added a file existence check for the certificate file. The certificate file load function in OpenSSL, seems to have a bug in it, so that if it ever receives an invalid file or invalid certificate, it will no longer load any certificates, (including valid ones) until the session is restarted. The file existence check helps this but a bad certificate in a file, will still cause a permanent err=13 cert load failure until the Pvx session is restarted Corrected problem with leaving the Message bar lines set when deleting objects that had message text. The system would potentially leave the message bar set to the contents of the message bar for the last control with focus.

8 Resolved an issue where the '!S' system parameter did not force the removal of the '?' on lines with errors when saving to a serial file Correction to OOP logic for STATIC to make sure that static variables are not properties. Also, added logic to skip format options in an IOLIST when passed to STATIC. This allows STATIC IOL=IOL(nn) where the iolist of a file may have formatting options Corrected problem caused by changing the font of a control on the fly (modifying 'Font$) which could result in accidental freeing of window fonts Corrected a problem with an error being reported in the Close mnemonic function ('*X') which could leave a file unable to be closed and thereby cause a GPF. While this change should avoid the GPF, it should be noted that, should an error occur during the execution of a "CLOSE" mnemonic, the file will not be closed and the CLOSE directive will see the error. In addition, the next attempt to close the file will ignore the CLOSE program specification thus avoiding an endless loop Corrected an issue in Device driver handling where: a) When the device driver reported a error 0 it was not cascaded back to the OPEN. b) Closing LFO in a device driver could cause a GPF since the file wasn't open when returning. If the file has been closed and no error is returned by the driver then the system generates an internal error bad file state. Section 2. WindX windx.utl - Changed the displayed message when reaching console mode in a *nthost/*ntslave session, to match the initial message used in *start.up Resolved an issue where the 'standalone' edition of WindX could not be used with the new Application server. Section 3. NOMADS Corrected Accelerator keys for Folder Tabs Resolved issue where pressing the ENTER key on a folder tab was not setting focus to the first control on the sub-panel (%NOMAD_ENTER_TAB must be set to a non-zero value in order for the ENTER key to behave as the TAB key) Corrected a problem where a Multi-line's initial value being cleared after returning from a 'Jumpto' panel Corrected an ERR #36 that occurred when using a Multi_line formatter in combination with a GRID Preset Cell Fixed an issue where the group assignment was not being cleared when moving between tabs Resolved an issue where the FOLDER_ID$ was being cleared when returning from a 'Jumpto' panel that contained a folder control.

9 3.7 - Fixed an issue where GDI resources were being lost when moving between folder tabs Corrected an error 14 in *winproc that occurred when invoking panels from different libraries Added the ability to close a specific concurrent window at runtime. This can be done by using the CMD_STR$ variable as follows: Syntax: CMD_STR$="ENDPANEL <panel name>,<library>" or CMD_STR$="ENDPANEL,<panel name>,<library>" Note:,<library> is optional and ENDPANEL must be uppercase The 'Dynamic' attribute on the Image control is now saved properly. Previously, once this attribute was checked 'on', it could not be turned off A folder control can now be resized within the properties panel by adjusting the 'Position' and 'Size' values The 'Tab Position' options (Top/Bottom/Left/Right) are now available in a dropbox control (selections were previously displayed as radio buttons) Fixed an issue where menu items could not be launched more than once Fixed an error 29 which occurred when the 'Font/Clr' tab was selected Note: This error only occurred if a large base ProvideX font is used Grid queries - Fixed an error 55 which occurred when assigning query button options Control colours - added WindX support for 'Custom' colours (this option can be found in the 'Font/Clr' properties under the 'Background' and 'Foreground' colour selections) Checkbox Definition - The control name assigned to a new check box is now loaded with a default value of User Ctls - Fixed double Alt-keys Designer - The dropbox containing the controls assigned to a panel is now reloaded after a blockpaste The _VAR_LST$ variable will now contain the proper values after a panel 'JUMPTO'event is completed The library file is now closed and the window caption is cleared when you return to the Nomads main menu The 'Resizable' property on a grid control is now saved properly. Previously, this property could not be reset to the off state The NEXT_FOLDER variable is now checked in the panel-post display logic. Nomads will now do a PREINPUT NEXT NEXT_FOLDER if the variable NEXT_FOLDER is not equal to zero The Nomads grid memory file used for presets and cell logic is now

10 closed when the panel terminates Corrected an error 13 which occurred when a tab was selected in a concurrent window Replaced the '&' with an underscore '_' in the fonted text controls on the Data Dictionary Elements panel. This issue only occurred if the tab placement for the folder control was set to Left or Right In the popup menu assignment panel there is a new button labeled 'Define' (this button will launch the 'Popup Menu Definition' utility) This feature allows you to create new popup menus during the assignment stage Data Class Maintenance - added browse buttons and cleaned up the panels Data Class Maintenance (fixed an issue where you were unable to clear the assigned bitmap in the advanced query options) Data Class Maintenance - fixed a looping issue that occurred when the query is invoked for a class file with no existing records. (Created a new query for the class file. This query does not have the file maintenance option turned on.) *winproc - fixed an issue that occurred when the folder tabs are drawn while running JAVX Run-time query A double-select is no longer required to select the first item after the initial display or after resizing Fixed an issue where page up/down keys, line up/down keys and single mouse clicks did not function properly when the query was sorted by alternate keys with null key values Query definition - Password on *win\qrydef.int program prevented validation of Interface program, so the password was removed Resizable objects on panels with folders will no longer extend beyond the folder boundaries File Maintenance Definition - Fixed issue with named primary key created from a partial field Run-time (Flmaint) - Changed key field parsing routine to handle alternate PAD syntax Nomads Utilities, *win/print, *win/libcomp, *win/msgmngr modified to print to the *WINPRT* on the local WindX workstation, if running in a WindX session. Section 4. Data Dictionary *dict\dd_update Added logic to save current state of the 'PP' parameter and force it to 0 thus allowing dd_update to perform its action without prompting for a password. The 'PP' parameter is reset back to its original state Data Dictionary Maintenance: Corrected path delimiters in the Dictionary Library panel "Keyseg_opt"

11 used in key definition Corrected key names to allow underscore *dict\gensql - Fixed issue with File leak due to no index defined in Dictionary files - Fixed issue with External fields not getting processed - Added array fields functionality (fields defined with an 'Occurs' property) Data Dictionary Utilities Create INI file definition. - Key definitions for files with external keys have been grouped together and placed before the individual field definitions - Fixed offset calculations for key fields and data fields - Added SORTTABLE option in [*Table*] section for tables with external keys Import Definition. - Filter Views from table list - Restore field counter in progress bar - Validate table selection before proceeding Data Dictionary Objects. *dict\colinfo - Column object properties INTERNALFORMAT$ and TYPE$ now default to a initial value when created. INTERNALFORMAT$ = "D" Delimited TYPE$ = "S" String - Fixed issue with incorrect INTERNALFORMAT$ and TYPE$ being set *dict\idxinfo - Index Object properties COLUMNATTR$ now defaults to an initial value when a new index segment is created. COLUMNATTR$ = "A" Ascending *dict\database - Fixed issue with Non-Normalized files not returning full IOLIST - Fixed issue where doing a DropColumn on a non-key segment would remove all key definitions from the DDE file. - Fixed issue with UpdateColumn for Variant files not updating record sets other than the main set. - Fixed issue with The CREATETABLE method where it would not use the directory specified by the SETDATABASE method. - Also added optional second parameter to allow CreateTable to specify a file path and name. CreateTable("name") Creates the physical table if it doesn't already exist. Files will be created based on Physical File found in the Data Dictionary. CreateTable("name",X$) Creates the physical table if it doesn't already exist. A path and file name may be specified in X$. *dict\pvxdb.pvc Changed object so a password of "password" could be applied. The function was using PGM() to pass compiled IOLISTs for providex.ddf and providex.dde which caused the object to stop working correctly if a password was applied.

12 4.6 - Corrected an error 60 which occurred when defining data dictionary key segment options while running within a WindX session. Section 5. Data Views Increased the number of columns that can be selected in a view from 50 to Locked the column size for a hidden field in the Data Source Relations panel Data Source Definition - Element selection - Length for numeric elements can now be entered with decimal precision View Definition - View Data - Added 'Abort' button to cancel data retrieval - Addressed WindX issue involving invalid string size when retrieving a large number of records Data Source Maintenance - Copy function - Writes providex.ddf entry when a View is copied Custom Data Source Objects - There is now a requirement for a new method called CurrentKey(kno) to return the current key value based on key number, or null on error. This is similar to CurrentKey(), but requires the key number as an argument View Object (*views/view) Fixed an issue returning values for external key fields New methods: ClearRestrict( ) - This new method will clear all external restrictions set for the View using the Restrict( ) method. GetKey(kno) - Returns the value of the key of the current record based on key number, or null on error Views and the ProvideX ODBC driver: Fixed an issue to allow Views to be joined in the 3.30 version of the ODBC driver. Note: In order to access Views from the ODBC driver, it is necessary to include paths to the pvxwin32.dll and the Views definition files (i.e., the pvxview.* suite of files) as part of the 'Prefix' definition. Section 6. NOMADS Customizer Customizer grid pop-up menu now works correctly Fixed Customizer grid update issue Added three global flags to override Customizer CTL definitions, allowing the definitions of CTL values other than 9999 (for Panel definition) and 9996 (for General Maintenance) %NOMAD_CUSTOM_DEFINE=ctlval NOMADS will use this CTL value rather than 9999 for a panel definition %NOMAD_CUSTOM_GENMTC=ctlval NOMADS will use this CTL value rather than 9996 for General Maintenance

13 %NOMAD_CUSTOM_SKIP_DEFINITION=1 If the CTL values for panel definition and General Maintenance have not been set to values other than 9999 and 9996, and you wish to use these CTL values for your own User CTL values, set this global variable to 1 to skip the Customizer definitions User file update - Reworked update logic to allow update when file is in use, unless file is to be renamed, items order rearranged, or items added which would require an increased record size. Section 7. Smart Grid and Smart Files Smart grids - Default format from query object definition now set when no format defined. Section 8. Application Parameters <No Changes> Section 9. Utilities *info - Corrected an invalid variable name in GetDialogLocationPixels and SetDialogLocationPixels *viewer.prg - Corrected an issue where lines longer than 240 characters would cause an error *cmd/system/lv - Modified to show variables without regard to case *cmd/system/ll - Modified to ignore situations like X0=POS(":"= which it was displaying as a label *f - Added recognition of fib(19,1) types: > I/O redirection A Attached printer E DDE connection N TCP/IP connection O ODBC connection T WindX connected device/file W Windows printer Graphical Editor - modified the program that launches the graphical editor to handle default programs that have been defined as expressions Graphical Utilities - Fixed error 47 that occurred when the "Move up one directory" button was pressed and the current directory is "/" Graphical Utilities - Added WindX support for launching the 'Calculator' and 'Notepad' on the client Graphical Utilities Open Files program (*gui/f.w) - Added recognition of fib(19,1) types: > I/O redirection A Attached printer E DDE connection

14 M *Memory* File N TCP/IP connection O ODBC connection T WindX connected device/file W Windows printer BBx Conversion Toolkit - _bbxcvin.new Corrected an issue which caused the cv-nobbx to no longer run Added in a check for attempting to convert bad programs *RPSRVR - RPC Server Daemon. Increased the TCP Buffer size to 64K from 16K to allow for faster transmissions when sending large sized data records. Also opened the RPC socket for NoDelay and Streaming read to help give a small performance boost *it Graphical Editor - Prevent saving programs with an semi-colon as part of the filename *win/date - Patched to allow for entry and display of dates that evaluate to a Julian of 0, so that the correct date is checked and displayed, rather than always "today". Section 10. WebServer & Internet Toolkit *web/merge - Modified to recognize "<tr" rather than "<tr>" so finding rows with attributes embedded in the tag will work *web/merge - Localized several merge variables, to allow for performs within performs of merge, so that lines do not get doubled up Minor changes/fixes found during a desk check of the code Corrected the use of Hidden URL's. The data field the list of URL's were stored in was missing from the web server data files Corrected the highlight bar for the currently selected server. The highlight was vanishing after the list updated itself Corrected the internal decision on when to update the web server data files, to account for a change in daylight savings. Works with 5.10 and higher ProvideX only Modified the date/time stamps returned from the server for text/binary and directory listings to show times in true GMT using the files original values. Required ProvideX 5.10 or higher Increased the Web Server internal revision to Enhanced the task handler to throw away any additional data packets it may receive once it begins processing a job. It was found that on HP-UX 11i systems data would keep coming into the socket even though it had received all of the required data Corrected an issue where the internal handshake used between the task handlers and the port monitors, could get out-of-step if additional unexpected data packets were received Corrected an internal message handler function that had an invalid variable name. This issue would keep task handlers which were not idle and had more than one internal message pending to lose the

15 internal message Added some "pause" time in the task handlers when running under UNIX/Linux to wait after sending several data packets from the task handler to the port monitor. This will keep large jobs from using too much of the TCP bandwidth, and allow other operations TCP time Modified the Web Server Configuration program to work correctly with JavX Added recognition for a %WebCheckForXML flag. This flag may be set in the *web/start_up program. If set to a non zero value, then the web server will check for the string "<? XML VERSION = '1.0'?>" in the data which is to be parsed for variables. If it finds this text, it will not process any 'variables = value' pairs. This change was added so that people who send XML documents into the web server with an invalid mime type or who could not control the mime type, would still be able to access the XML document, instead of getting an Error Page back from the web server. Normally, incoming XML documents should have a content type of "text/xml" and this flag would therefore be un-necessary. Under normal conditions, an incoming XML document has a mime type of "text/xml" and is retrievable by a ProvideX program running in the web server, by reading the %body_buff from IND=0 to the %Content_Length of the body. The above flag is only needed for those people who POST a request to the web server that has a content type, which says the data is "url-encoded" *web/ . Modified the utility line wrapping feature to not force a line break in a url unless it has another choice. Section 11. Application Server *appserv/config.en - Modified the Server panel, to limit allowed socket entry to 1 thru Modified the size of the Socket number entry on the server panel. '4D' look and feel required the multiline to be a bit wider to allow for formatted input, without beeping *URL - Re-written to allow App Server Connections via windx:// URL's - See REM's at the top of *URL for usage *client, *url, *appserv/apssrv.pvc, *appserv/apscln.pvc - Passworded the programs with a password of "password" to keep the lines from listing in a program trace (reduces clutter). Section 12. Oracle Call Interface (OCI) Added OCI support for Lock(chn) and Unlock(chn) when using a prefix file. Section 13. ProvideX OLE Server

16 Improved handling of un-trapped errors when using the EXECUTE method through the ProvideX.Script Fixed a problem accessing ARG(0) from within PVXWIN32.DLL Improved handling of an invalid activation key when attempting to use the ProvideX.Script interface.