filePro 5.0.14 all platforms, ddir does not respect PFQUAL

[Chad McWilliams]

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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of John Esak
> Sent: Saturday, January 01, 2005 9:13 PM
> To: Fplist (E-mail)
> Cc: support at fptech.com
> Subject: BUG: filePro 5.0.14 all platforms, ddir does not 
> respect PFQUAL
> 
> 
> 
> This is an odd one to be reporting so late on in the filePro 
> history... but it just bit me pretty good... in that I had to 
> re-write a long script that does everything nicely for an 
> unqualified dataset. When I wanted to use the script for a 
> qualifier, I put this simple variable at the top of the script...
> 
> PFQUAL=$1;  export $PFQUAL
> 
> Now, everything in the script works correctly, the dreport's, 
> the dclerk's, the dxmaint's, etc., everything EXCEPT the 
> ddir's which are critical (as is
> everything) to the functioning of the whole process. It 
> appears that ddir does NOT respect PFQUAL... and the docs 
> ever since 3.0 say it does.  Now, I suppose it is my problem 
> that I have never really sleuthed out why there have been 
> certain strange problems in this regard... but now I know.  
> This should really be fixed.
> 
> You should be able to do:
> 
> PFQUAL=qulname; export PFQUAL
> ddir test -k
> 
> and the qualified key and indexes should be reset NOT the 
> main unqualified file... I mean yikes, thank GOD I tested 
> this before I ran it on my real files.
> 
> Hopefully, no next version of filePro will be released 
> without this working properly. I think this is a biggy... 
> especially because it clobbers data it shouldn't....
> 
> 
> Yes, I know that ddir filename -m qualname works just fine... 
> but that isn't the point... the help file lists "ddir" as a 
> program that respects PFQUAL and it certainly should.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John Esak
> 
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> 
> P.S. - Mark and Tony both verified this bug in the FP Room 
> just a moment ago.
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As I recall, I ran into this several years ago (4.8.something) when I
couldn't figure out why my qualified files weren't getting emptied when
I ran a -k (or all of the were, I don't really remember which it was).
But I learned then to use the -m, and have ever since.  As a matter of
fact, I usually do anymore with any of the utilites just to be safe.

-Chad McWilliams