Two Questions

[Bob Stockler]

Delmont Neroni wrote (on Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 07:41:29PM -0500):
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| Also, is there a *.bat file or other job that will rebuild all
| the indices in a Windows (DOS) filePro database, like the one
| that is available on the extended utilities menu in Unix filePro?
| I notice this is absent from the utilities menu under Win XP.

The "docindex" script provided with the UNIX filePro 5.6.x distro
is a KornShell script, as edited by Jerry Rains, derived from the
original "docindex" written by Marc Parns and yours truly.

If you have a UNIX substitute on your Windows system (Microsoft
Services for UNIX, UWIN, cygwin, among others), you might be able
to port the shell script to use it there.

OTOH, if you can figure out how to use the filePro Files "fpidx"
and "fpidxdat" (on my Windows filePro 5.6 system they're found in
C:\fp\fputil\filepro), you may have found what you're after.

Bob

PS - I just got closer to finding out what you might be looking for!
     From the filePro Main Menu select "G - Run a User Menu", then
     select "UTIL".  On that menu select "T - Tutorials and Samples".
     On that menu select "P - filePro Development Menu".  On that
     menu select "G - Run a User Menu".  Elect to run "UtilIDX". You
     will get an "Index Maintainence Menu" that offers three options:
       1 - Index Maintenance
       2 - Create Index Script File
       3 - Current Data File for Indexes
     If I didn't screw up the directions on how to make the wild trek
     to this point, try it out and see if it works.  (I'd do so myself,
     but my head is swimming around too much from having to find it in
     the first place.)

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