In the VFP9 helpfile a lot of the old 2.x functions and commands are documented with a short,snotty "Included for backward compatibility" notice, but without any further description what this item is doing or what parameters are used.
Since we now do a lot of conversion and updating of old codebases, you have to look in the old FPW26.HLP file if you want to know the full syntax and uses for those old commands. Unfortunately, that helpfile has its problems on it's own (HLP no more directly supported on Win7/8 without a MS patch; structured differently, awkward font, etc ).
Therefor it would be cool, if we could migrate those old "Backward Topics" from the HLP into the current helpfile, so we would finally have a really complete language documentation at one place.
Those topics could stil have a warning header and reference to VFPX.
What do you all think about that?
(BTW: I'm just porting a FP/DOS app to VFP9, which was running untouched since 12 years... Duh! Haven't been in FP/DOS since 20 years...)
wOOdy
Since we now do a lot of conversion and updating of old codebases, you have to look in the old FPW26.HLP file if you want to know the full syntax and uses for those old commands. Unfortunately, that helpfile has its problems on it's own (HLP no more directly supported on Win7/8 without a MS patch; structured differently, awkward font, etc ).
Therefor it would be cool, if we could migrate those old "Backward Topics" from the HLP into the current helpfile, so we would finally have a really complete language documentation at one place.
Those topics could stil have a warning header and reference to VFPX.
What do you all think about that?
(BTW: I'm just porting a FP/DOS app to VFP9, which was running untouched since 12 years... Duh! Haven't been in FP/DOS since 20 years...)
wOOdy