Unable to add fields to a filepro file

[John Esak]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Jean-Pierre A. Radley
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 5:28 PM
> To: FilePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Unable to add fields to a filepro file
>
>
> Tony Freehauf propounded (on Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 02:19:36PM -0500):
> | hi experts
> | problem: unable to add fields to a filepro file
> | below are file listing before & after an attempt to add fields as
> | suggested by Mark Fairlight. (see bottom )
> | This is on a linux system - uname -a below:
> | Linux ynotdemo 2.4.20-18.7smp #1 SMP Thu May 29 07:49:23 EDT 2003 i686
> | unknown
> | filepro version 5.0.14R4
> | we run the program using the following script
> | PFPROG=/appl
> | PFDATA=/
> | PFDIR=/appl/addison
> | PFMENU=/appl/addison/AddisonMenu
> | PFTMP=/appl/tmp
> | export PFPROG PFDATA PFDIR PFMENU PFTMP
> | p MENU1
> |
> | permission on /appl
> | drwxrwxrwx   17 filepro  filepro      4096 Jul 11 12:40 appl
> | permissions on second directory /appl/addison
> | drwxrwxrwx    4 filepro  filepro      4096 Jan 25 18:20 addison
> | permision on /appl/addison/filepro
> | drwxrwxrwx  101 filepro  filepro      4096 Jul 14 10:43 filepro
> | permision on /appl/addison/filepro/stock  <<== file we wish to change
> | drwxrwxrwx    2 filepro  filepro      8192 Jul 15 14:11 stock
> |
> | each time we try to add fields we can tell it fails because the records
> | fail to count down. We then have to unlock the lockfile to try again.
> |
> | help would be appreciated
> | thanks
> | old tony
>
> Listing a ton of irrelevant files is annoying, Tony -- why clutter up the
> landscape like that?  Adding fields should affect nothing but the map file
> and the key/data files.
>
> Why the silly permissions?  They do nothing for the operation of
> filePro, and only serve to shine a highly pejorative light on your
> system administrator.
>
> You don't say what version of filePro you've got there, but under
> 5.6.03, I **can't even get into** "Define Files" to then attempt any
> changes to the map, if I have files called keyjpradley.071506 and
> datajpradley.071506.
>
> Try pushing aside your data.addison.030794 and key.addison.030794
> files.
>
> --
> JP

You are really something JP... had Tony *not* included the information about
his O/S and filePro and things he hoped would be relevant... you would have
sent the same pissy foreword with your message except you would have
complained in exactly the other direction.  And, incidentally, since you
love to nit-pick at every little  splinter in everyone else's messages...
take the beams  out of yours first.

> You don't say what version of filePro you've got there, but under

Even with all the lumber in my useless and broken eye... I can clearly see
that you either didn't read his whole message thoroughly, or just missed it
because you were so upset at seeing a few extra files listed....

> | filepro version 5.0.14R4

What exactly would you rather have him show??  Perhaps, you wanted a "file"
dump of the executable information?

And, since your penchant for telling everyone here what is and isn't
*annoying* comes out in so many of your messages... and we are all subjected
to your "lessons". How about if you try another of mine on for size?

Tony, your problem is probably the periods in your key/data filenames.

Jeez, I just managed to say that in one sentence with no *really* annoying
preamble. Maybe you could try the same in the future?

John Esak