-ng

[Dennis Malen]

I was looking for -ng together on Page 63. I realize now that there is one 
for -n and one for -g for the lookup. You can then combine them. Infact when 
a lookup is created and you choose "do nothing" and "greater than" that is 
what filePro does automatically. -ng. I have used those many times in the 
past.

I did not correlate Ken's use of -ng to the way filePro does it 
automatically. I thought it was something new.

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Esak" <john at valar.com>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>
Cc: "Fplist (E-mail)" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Friday, January 06, 2006 10:02 PM
Subject: RE: -ng


> >
>> Ken, page 63 has the -g. I was looking for -ng not realizing that the "n"
>> was assumed. Thanks.
>>
>> Dennis
>
> The -n is not assumed. The -n is another separate flag which tells the
> lookup not to display an error message if what you are looking for isn't
> found. It tells filePro you will handle any error conditions yourself.
>
> Most dsah options in most prorgrams (take this with a grain of salt) can 
> be
> combined to use only one dash... so in this case instead of -n -g he was
> just using -ng. In fact -n -g would probably not even work in this
> instance... see what I said about that grain of salt?
>
> :-)
>
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