Export problem

[Jeff Harrison]

Hello all.  I'm trying to generate some export
processing tables for a customer that has filepro
4.0.X on a SCO Unix system.  I'm running into a few
problems - One main issue is that I don't have access
to their system - I was given a copy of their maps
only, and I have set up a test working area on a local
system that has a working copy of these that I can
mess around with.  

Now, I'm pretty sure I can generate acceptable
processing tables that will run on 4.0, but I believe
that 4.0 will require an output format to exist before
I can run them right?  Nowadays I always use the -fp
flag to do such things so I don't need to create the
blank output format.  I don't think 4.0 had that
available did it?  This is an issue because I may need
to generate processing for 100s of different files.

I thought of doing this in clerk with a lookup -
instead of as a report, but I would guess that I can't
count on there always being an index set up for the
lookup, and for a record # lookup I would probably be
limited - I'm not sure how 4.0 would behave with a
lookup next on a dash lookup.  

Any thoughts would be appreciated.  Thanks.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The fastest and
easiest ways to export and import filepro data.






 
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