retokenize tables

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 07:02:43PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Chris Rendall (Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:59:19 -0600):
> > I'm running filePro 5.0.14 on SUSE Enterprise Linux and it acts like it
> > is only using tokenized tables even though I specify dclerk.  Some of my
> > processing tables have not been tokenized for a long time since I've
> > only been using dclerk/dreport.  Is there a way to automate going
> > through all my processing tables and create the tok file?
> 
> dclerk/dreport cannot be using precompiled tok files.  Unless, of
> course, they're really just renamed copies of rclerk/rreport.
> 
> However, to answer your question, this will recompile all prc files
> for a given filePro file:
> 
>     rcabe filename -ca
> 
> To do all filePro files:
> 
>     cd /appl/filepro    [change path as appropriate]
>     for file in *
>     do
>         /appl/fp/rcabe $file -ca     [change path as appropriate]
>     done

And, for what it's worth, there Were Ways to get around the lack of
-ca; I did this back as far as 4.5, and *maybe* it was 4.1 or even 4.0;
you pipe the appropriate keystrokes into dcabe which (mirabile visu)
*actually read STDIN*.  The trick was that there was one spot where
there was an *optional* prompt (ISTR it was "duplicate declaration in
automatic processing"); the solution was to hit the *space bar*, which
cleared that prompt, but didn't screw up the next one.

If anyone's unlucky enough to need this, I *think* we still have that
(15 year old) project on a DC-6120 somewhere.

Cheers,
-- jra
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