Selection date question

[Lerebours, Jose]

Bob posted:

> 
> On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 12:44:14PM -0600, Lerebours, Jose wrote:
> [snip]
> | 
> | Heck, isn't qualifier limited to seven characters?  If so, 
> what do you
> | do when two or more users are same up to the 7th character?
> 
> If you use Define Files to create qualifier files their names
> may be only 7 characters or less, and you may create only 160
> of them in any one filePro file - a limitation imposed by the
> Define Files qualifiers creation screen.
> 
> But qualifier file names may be up to 25 characters in length
> and you can create as many of them as you desire.
> 


I created a simple file (named it jose).  I then went into
~/jose and created a couple of keys

>key1234567
>key1234567abc

I then ran rclerk jose -s1 -m 1234567abc and added a couple
of records.  I then opened jose but using 1234567 as the
qualifier.  The records I added appeared on this qualifier. I
checked for file size and this is what I got

-rw-r--r--   1 filepro  group        194 Jun 13  2003 key
-rw-r--r--   1 filepro  group          0 Feb 21 13:22 key123456
-rw-r--r--   1 filepro  group        291 Feb 21 14:44 key1234567
-rw-r--r--   1 filepro  group          0 Feb 21 13:22 key12345678
-rw-r--r--   1 filepro  group          0 Feb 21 14:43 key1234567abc

I removed key1234567 and tried rclerk again and I got a filePro
error


*** A filePro Error Has Occurred ***

On File: //filepro/jose/key1234567

File not found


Unless there is a trick to this, filePro is using first 7 
characters and ignoring anything beyond that.

Thanks;


Jose Lerebours