But still, an eval copy doesn't help unless they can run it forever. At some point they would have to actually purchase a copy, and that's what they can't do.
The only RBase work that I can do relates to their recent multi-million-dollar upgrade to another system. Unfortunately they are unable to get some useful reports out of that system. So they are sending csv files and I'm writing RBase front-end reports for them! Although this is probably killing them (they keep saying that "someday" the other system will produce these reports) they realize that their staff can't work without this RBase system in place. But other than writing these reports, the company is forbidden to do "enhancements" to any RBase system since the company considers them all dead. You have to submit alot of paperwork to get a system change. I remember one instance where I estimated it would take 8 hours of work to do something. We had a 2-hour meeting involving 6 people, including one lawyer and myself. It took that to get approval to do 8 hours of work. This is the company where I thought I had a chance of getting RMail in there, until they found out that I had to touch the users' computers. That killed that project. They wanted a nice neat .dll in one place, and only there. So .... I think the only lower odds of having them upgrade to 7.x is betting on the Colts to win the Super Bowl. Karen in Chicago Believe me, working at this company is a pain. They are so against doing anything to keep these RBase databases going, that even if a task would take me only a half hour to do (which most tasks are that easy, unlike the tasks for their other database products), people have to go through 3 levels of approval before I get the okay. Their patents group (which is who has this text wrapping problem) > Course Larry would have the simple, logical answer .... (-; You could get > them an EVAL version to show them.. The price is right! > > > Still would like to know from anyone using 6.5 whether they've run into a > fix > > for this problem, or any other way data will flow to multiple pages. > > The wraptext deal I wrote is fairly convoluted and anything that > approximates > it would cost half the cost for 1 seat of RBase 7.x, so it doesn't make > economic sense to do that. I also thought of a couple other convoluted > workarounds (using scripting and HTAs), but again the time involved doesn't > make sense to do it that way either. I'm with Larry on this one. >
