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While there is an fpGUI add-on for [[GUI]]-based access, filePro is still primarily character-based, which some users assert makes for faster and more efficient data entry. There is, however, no support for screens larger than 24x80.

There are several people who have created [[XML]] and [[SQL]] bridges that allow cross-communication with legacy systems. Not even the [[PHP]] community has provided a full featured layer with the ability to directly read/write to filePro data in real time. PHP has contributions that allow reads if record numbers are known; however, record numbers could change in a reorganization, thus eliminating the usefulness of the contribution. Writing to filePro databases is still an issue, becausewhile the internal format of the B+ tree indexes used ishas notbeen officially documented; additionally, thereno isone nohas wayadapted tosuch communicatea withlibrary thefor engine,these andindexes--any allprogrammers datawishing controlsto canwrite onlynew berecords managedto througha thedatabase singlemust instancedo ofthat (not inconsequential) work fileProthemselves. It is possible that the internals of filePro are so convoluted and complex that fPTech is essentially unable to remedy the problems listed above.

==Database Features==