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   From: info@sundialservices.com   
      
   Known in-house as "Halloween," for its scheduled release-date, the   
   completely retooled ChimneySweep(R) 6.0 is by far the most ambitious   
   version we've ever made.   
      
   This release has a number of very significant features:   
      
   => The product is now 32-bit only, using the Borland Database Engine (BDE32)   
   software exclusively for all access to Paradox tables.  Yet it continues to   
   support every dialect of Paradox since Paradox 2.0 for DOS.   
      
   => Amazingly, backward-compatibility is maintained, although the output   
   format of existing jobs will change when run.   
      
   => Support for dBase-format tables is now included.  The initial release   
   supports the BDE-compatible "dBase" variants.  Immediately thereafter,   
   support will expand to include FoxPro and Clipper.   
      
   => The most significant change, however, is the user-interface.  The system   
   tracks all jobs, all schedules, -and- the results from all runs that have   
   been made on this machine.  Result files are automatically stored, in   
   compressed (ZIP) form, in a specified directory (usually in subdirectory of   
   the product installation directory).   
      
   => XML/XSL is now used throughout the system.  The main data-store file is a   
   (ZIP-compressed) XML repository.  Job output is produced in XML format.   
   Job output is then formatted using provided XSL-FO stylesheets.  Complete   
   DTD-files are provided to enable the use of these files with other   
   XML-compliant systems.   
      
   => I -hope- that the Scheduling Service will be available in time for   
   release-date; since Vista is very much in-flux in that department now, we   
   shall see.  We won't hold back the Halloween date for this, but will   
   furnish it promptly as a maintenance-fix.  (This is a background scheduling   
   service that launches ChimneySweep at appropriate times.  Due to its nature   
      
   => The documentation .. all 450 pages of it .. and the on-line help (now   
   HTMLHelp format) .. have been completely retooled using DocBook.  The web   
   site is being retrofitted using the same methods to make it much larger and   
   informative.   
      
   Very soon, we are going to need:   
     * Beta testers   
     * Internationalization and international distributors   
      
   Those should eee mayle:  info at sundialfurnishers dot com make that sundial   
   services of course oh you know what to do but a spam generator that scans   
   newsgroup postings hopefully won't...   
      
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