Selection date question

[Bob Stockler]

On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 01:54:44PM -0600, Lerebours, Jose wrote:
| 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.

I was wrong.  Sorry.

I've had that in my notes forever, but I seldom use qualifier
files and never tested it.

Bob (wiping the egg off his face)

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