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This issue will explore an automatic r-code upgrade service you can
set up for your systems. From the article:

"More and more we are seeing companies providing upgrade services for
user's of their applications. Red Hat even makes money on keeping
their Linux distribution tip top with a simple click of an
icon/command line.

I have seen large organizations attempting to keep multiple dispersed
machines keep their progress applications up to date via a mirage of
strategies.

You can do a couple of things to accomplish upgrading the .r's of an
application:

-- Make a visit out to all the computers and upgrade the .r's
available on the system. This plainly sucks if you have machines
across town or in multiple buildings.

-- Put the .r's on mapped drives and run the code from there. This
has been shown to be incredibly slow for more complex apps –
especially when using SmartObjects. Large amounts of .r files coming
across the network during start up; And here and there the app will
just "freeze" for a few moments while it loads up a .r from far away….
-- Use a tool to upgrade the .r's local to a machine."

I will be describing option number 3: Including code and strategy for
making an upgrade service for your Progress application. Click a
button, or upon program start up - see if there is a new upgrade and
download the .r's onto the remote machine.

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