A Windows 2003 Sever Work Around Needed if possible

[Robert T. Repko (R Squared Consultants)]

A second work around would be to copy the map file to map.new.  Using 
a text editor modify the map.new file to increase the field length, 
remembering to also modify the size in the first line.  Then run 
autoshuf on the file.

Believe it or not at 8/17/2007 06:46 PM, Sharon Miller said:
>A while back one of my  customers migrated from SCO Unix Filepro to
>Windows 2003 server with the  Network version ofFilepro. After some
>minor issues and setup  everything has been running pretty smoothe with
>the exception of @CB which he had to give up... ( a sad thing to loose)
>. He has come up with another more drastic  problem.....
>
>Most of his files are longer than 8.3 characters.... This has not caused
>a
>problem, until now. Everything in the runtime side has worked fine. It
>can still pull up the files even though thet do not follow the dos
>convention...
>But now he needs to change a field length in the define mode.... Since
>the define mode does not see any file that has a period in it, it can
>not pull ut file in  the define mode to increase length or add screens
>etc.... is
>there away around this. I don't see why the runtime (dclerk, dxmaint,
>and dreport) see the files correctly but not the dcabe and define.... I
>understand the old dos limitations of not being able to create a file...
>
>but if the file is already there, can't filepro update it..... IE the
>need
>to add fields, change field lengths, add new screens etc.
>
>If you could give me a work around without renaming the files, this
>would be appreciated. The remaning of the files would cause a great
>inconvience due to the fact in the processing there are many lookups and
>
>all would have to be changed manually. If it were only one file, it
>might not be too bad but there are close to a hundred files with lookups
>
>in all.
>
>I do not need to create new files with names longer than 8.3 charcater
>limitation just be able to modify the ones that migrated over from unix.
>If filepro can not open the file with the define mode is there a dos or
>windows command that you could alias the file so filepro could see
>it.... I link under unix you can ln (link files to have more than one
>name... is there something like this under the windows environement) to
>make some changes to these files.
>
>Sincerely yours
>
>Sharon Miller
>Florida Software & Data Systems Inc
>
>
>
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