Export problem

[Jeff Harrison]

--- George Simon <GSimon at americanriverintl.com> wrote:

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net] 
> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 1:56 PM
> To: George Simon
> Cc: filepro-list at seaslug.org
> Subject: RE: Export problem
> 
> Quoting George Simon (Fri, 9 Feb 2007 13:37:59
> -0500):
> [...]
> > > >  As I recall the freechain is in LIFO order,
> so you
> > > > will get the last record you deleted.
> > >
> > > So are you saying that using that technique, I
> will never get to
> record
> > > 1?
> 
> > Correct.  You will continue getting the record you
> just deleted.
> 
> > If you force a freechain rebuild immediately prior
> to running your
> > processing, the freechain will be in record number
> order.  However,
> > in any other case, you can't guarantee that.
> 
> OK, but Jeff did say:
> "I think it would work if I first rebuilt the
> freechain."
> So if he does that, record no. 1 should be the first
> record in the
> freechain and the code should work if modified to:
> 
> [... if lookup to record 1 fails ...]
> If:
> Then: aystem "freechn filename"
> If:
> Then:	lookup filename r=free -e
> If:
> Then: lookup - r=rn -e
> If:
> Then: return
> --
> _______________________________________________

Yes, it should work in this case.  However, this is
all academic since there may be filepro files that
have no screens, or files that have screens with
passwords - So I can't easily automate a solution that
would successfully load clerk for each filepro file.

As I mentioned I'm going to have them create a
processing only output format for each of the files
they want to export.  It now turns out there are only
115 of these that they really need to export :-)

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The fastest and
easiest ways to generate filepro exports and imports.



 
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