As promised, we've published "Notes, Comments and Cautions about
Using SPF/Pro" on our company website:
- Navigate to colesoft.com.
- Hover over "support".
- Select "Utilities for z/OS".
- Click on "Using SPF Pro.pdf".
No login is needed.
Enjoy!
David Cole
Developer
dbc...@gmail.com (personal)
dbc...@colesoft.com (business)
540-456-6518 (cell)
At 11/4/2022 10:55 AM, David Cole wrote:
I am a die-hard SPF/pro user! There is no other PC based editor I've
tried that serves my needs as well as SPF/Pro. (I never did care for
SPF/SE, so Pro was where I settled.)
Sadly, at the time it was orphaned by Command Technology, SPF/Pro
still had several bugs, including total crashes that sometimes even
damaged its global files to the point where it would refuse to restart!
However, there was no other editor I tried that I liked as much as
SPF/Pro. So over the years, I have developed strategies that
minimize both the occurrence and consequences of the crashes,
including an easy recovery from the occasional destruction of the global files.
Today, I still use SPF/Pro, and my productivity boost from it
remains quite high.
Anyway, a few years ago, I took the time to write a comprehensive
in-house document with specific discussions of the kinds of problems
and failures that can occur, how to avoid or mitigate them and how
to recover when they do occur.
In light of the news of the death of Mr. Tetivia, and the permanent
loss of the SPF/Pro source code, I have decided to release my
"Notes, Comments and Cautions about Using SPF/Pro" as a pdf.
Temporarily, you can find the pdf at my personal website:
"dbcole.com/misc/usingspfpro.pdf".
Be aware... dbcole.com is a bare bones, old school Apache accessed
website with no extra security on it. Eventually, we will be moving
the pdf to somewhere at colesoft.com. I'll post again when that happens.
I hope some of you will find this document useful.
This is a sad loss.
David Cole
President
Colesoft
PS: Michael Knigge, I have the binary for SPF/Professional 5.0.4. As
far as I know, this is the last published release of SPF/Pro. Do to
want/need it? -dbc
At 11/1/2022 03:01 PM, Schmitt, Michael wrote:
[snip]
I really don't know why CTC made the big break from SPF/Pro to
SPF/SE. I still like SPF/Pro much better, but as I said, it crashes
on newer Windows more than SPF/SE (which for version 3.5 also
crashes). SPF/Pro just now crashed on me with MEM_BAD_POINTER from
SmartHeap Library.
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