I have the Express 3 powerpatch tape in my hot little hands.  :-)

The Communicator is sort of vague about whether or not:

1) The HPPCAPI ODBC clients we have installed throughout our user base will
still be able to communicate with our 3000 once I install Express 3?  It will
be a while before we have time to install ODBCLink/SE on our PC clients.

2) Is running HPPCAPI on the client side still officially supported by HP under
5.5 Express3?

Also, the end of the Communicator article about ODBCLink/SE lists several
features *not* included in the FOS SE version, but which are included in the
full-blown ODBCLink product from MB Foster, particularly "Support for TPI
keyword indexes used by Omnidex and Superdex".  ????  I'm confused;  I thought
TPI support was a function of HP's Image/SQL, not ODBCLink.  We have an
important production application using the HPPCAPI ODBC client to access an
Image/SQL DBE attached to a TurboImage database with Omnidex TPI keys.  We'll
be rather upset if this won't work after I install Express 3.....

Can anybody clarify this for me?
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