UNIX-Type filePro Manual Page

[Bob Stockler]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:35:06PM -0400, Bob Stockler wrote:
[snip]

I've filled my quota for UNIX-style man pages editors.

Now I'll ask everyone on the list . . .

Do you have any corrections or additions to this:

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  A - filePro Capacities and Limits
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    Names of:                      Sizes:  Min  Max
    --------------------------     ------  ---  ---
    filePro Files                           1    32
    Qualifier Files                         1    25
    Screens                                 1    25
    Output Formats                          1    28
    Process Tables                          1    28
    Tokenized Tables                        1    28
    Automatic Indexes                       1     1  [A-P]
    Demand Indexes                          1     1  [0-9]
    Selection Sets                          1    28
    Browse Formats                          1    28
    Real Field Headings                     0    40
    Edit Types                              1     7
    User Menus                              1    32
    Real Fields                             1     3  [1-999]
    Dummy Fields                            1     2  [a-z aa-zz]
    Variables defined with DECLARE          3    64
    Labels                                  3     7
    Arrays                                  3    32
    Aliases for Real and Dummy Fields       3    32
    Aliases for File Names                  3    32

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    Capacities & Limits
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    Record Size         65,400 characters [key and data segments 32,700 each]
  
    Qualifier Files        160 per filePro file [more if added by hand]

    Open Files             110 maximum

    Open filePro Files      60 [where all pieces of each one count as 1 file]

    Processing Tables     9999 lines per table [as many statements as will fit]
                           120 characters per "If" or "Then" line [dclerk
                               will process tables composed with text editors
                               where the total number of characters in any
                               set of "If"-"Then" lines doesn't exceed 298
                               characters. The [dr]cabe editors can't be used
                               on tables where any "Then" lines contain more
                               than 127 characters and will shorten to 120
                               any lines longer than that appearing in the
                               editor's window.  "If" lines of up to 177
                               characters are tolerated when associated with
                               127 character "Then" lines]

    Tokenized Tables         ~ [limited only by available memory]

    Dummy Fields        32,768 characters

    Fields on a Screen     200 maximum per screen

    Formulas                24 digits of precision - 16 to the left and 8 to
                                                     the right of the decimal
                                                     point [no rounding error]

    Lookups                  ~ [number per processing table is unlimited]

    Nested Gosubs           16

    Associated Fields:

      Groups                26 per file [A)-Z)]

      Sub-Fields            10 per group [0-9]  [ A) is the same as A0) ]

      Repetitions           32 occurances of any one group name per record

    Subtotal Levels          8

    Global Edits           100 per system

    Local Edits            100 per file

  There is a limit of 255 edit types.  Fifty are reserved for system edits,
  leaving 205 for local/global combined.  Typically, we say 100 global and
  100 local, as that guarantees that no combination will overflow the limit.
  But, if you know that no local edits table contains more than, say 50, then
  you could externally create a global table of 155 edits.

    Edit Instructions      128 characters per edit name

    Selection Sets           5 per selector sentence
                             ~ [number per processing table is unlimited]

    User Menu Scripts      200 lines [limit of the fP script editor; scripts
                           edited with a text editor may be of any size]

    User Menu Names        Menus with a "." in their name don't appear on the
                           list of menus displayed by dmakemenu.  They may,
                           however, be edited in dmakemenu by entering their
                           names as NEW menu names.

Bob
  
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