Auto index in reverse order

[Dennis Malen]

Thanks for everyone's input. I 've have to wait for 5.0.

Thanks
Dennis

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jean-Pierre A. Radley" <appl at jpr.com>
To: "FilePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 4:45 PM
Subject: Re: Auto index in reverse order


> Mark Luljak propounded (on Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:16:39PM -0500):
> | Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', Jay Ashworth done said:
> | > On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 03:43:20PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> | > > Simon--er, no...it was Dennis Malen--said:
> | > > >  Is there any way I can run and automatic index in reverse order.
> | > > >
> | > > > I want it to start at the end of the file and not at the 
> beginning.
> | > >
> | > > When you build the index, put an "X" in the Descending field.
> | > >
> | > > Unless you mean something drastically different than I think you 
> mean.
> | >
> | > To clarify, *later* versions of filePro know how to build automatic
> | > indexes in descending order, I know 5.0 does, I'm *pretty sure* 4.8
> | > did; I dunno about 4.5; I'm almost certain 4.1 and earlier did *not*.
> |
> | Someone with 4.8.10 just called my attention to the fact that theirs 
> does
> | -not-.  Seeing as I believe the target platform here is AIX, and there's 
> no
> | 5.0 yet for AIX, this presents a bit of a problem.
> |
> | "You can't get there from here..."
>
> If the index is built on a file with alphabetic characters, Dennis will
> have to wait until 5.0 arrives for AIX.  If it's a date, then the trick
> is to add a real numeric field (length 5) to the map, and have auto
> processing stuff it with the difference between 01/01/NN (where NN is
> one greater than PFCMARK) and the real date field that you wanted to
> peruse in reverse order.
>
> -- 
> JP
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