BASIS International Ltd. announces the release of Visual PRO/5® maintenance release 5.01. This release includes the following new and enhanced features:

Enhancements

• Certified on Windows XP Service Pack II
• Adds bitmap support to regular button controls
• Adds new modes to the SQLOPEN verb to override the DICTIONARY and DATA paths in config.tpm files, eliminating the need for multiple config.tpm files for multiple data sets
• Adds accessibility to SQL_VARBINARY and SQL_LONGVARBINARY type columns
• Enhances the mkrecover utility to handle encrypted files
• Updates _browse to show encrypted files
• Updates Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) shared libraries to the latest version for increased security

General Maintenance

• Fixes INPUTE/INPUTN controls to render correctly with Microsoft ClearType
• Fixes a memory leak when using Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE)
• Fixes ISZ=-1 to now open a read-only file
• Fixes C_ODBC_DESCRIBECOL to now return valid length values for templated fields
• Sets a max column size limit on SQL ODBC queries of 32767 to produce a valid template

BBj 5.0 at TechCon2004

BASIS will introduce and demonstrate highlights of BBj 5.0 this November at TechCon2004 in New Orleans. Exciting new training opportunities follow the conference on November 17-18. Make plans to attend and register today.

For registration information on TechCon2004 and post-conference training, visit the BASIS TechCon2004 Web site www.basis.com/events/techcon2004.

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