Converting old file pro processing tables

[John Esak]

Just so you know. It is not old cabe or new cabe that is doing this to
you... it is the environment variable ABE, which if set to ASCII will store
processing tables in flat, readable ascii. If it is set to anything else, it
stores them out encrypted. You must have had it set throughout the years to
something other than ASCII... or possibly it was not set at all, in which
case the default operation is to encrypt the tables.

My suggestion is to get Bob Stockler's "tok" program. It will allwo you to
run against a wildcarded set of filenames and prc's and (if you have
ABE=ASCII in the config file (or the environment)) re-store them all in
plain ascii... it will also make tok tables.

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John Esak
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> -----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 J. Ryan Kelley
> Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 12:36 PM
> To: fplist2
> Subject: Converting old file pro processing tables
>
>
>
> I'm doing some work with some processing tables that requires that I
> have access to them in plain text format, which is fine for all of my
> recently created processing tables.  However, it seems that processing
> tables created in older versions of cabe stored the text of the
> processing table in a non human readable format.  If I go into the
> processing table in cabe and save it, the file is switched over to the
> new plain text, easy to read and analyze format, which is great except I
> have potentially hundreds of these processing tables and instead of
> spending my day going into every old processing table in my system and
> saving them, I was hoping I could use some sort of filepro utility would
> allow me to just port all of these files over, I looked at the
> documentation for cabe and only found flags to create tokenization
> tables for a processing table from the prompt, not to recreate the
> processing table in it's plain text form....any suggestions?  I'm
> running fp 5.0.13R4 on Solaris.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> --
> J. Ryan Kelley
> Trinity Transport, Inc.
>
> http://www.trinitytransport.com
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