Converting old file pro processing tables

[J. Ryan Kelley]

Bob and Jay,

Thank you for your suggestions, I took the same idea that you both gave 
me and adjusted it to work on my shell to help me out...thanks for 
taking the time to answer my question.


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J. Ryan Kelley
Trinity Transport, Inc.
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J. Ryan Kelley wrote:

>
> 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,
>