qualifier

[Bruce Easton]

Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote Tuesday, July 31, 2007 3:18 PM:
>
> So far as I know, the only way to add qualified files is to run ddefine
> for each database.
> 
> When there are more that a handful of them, this gets real tiring.
> 
> Has anyone concocted a script to add a qualifier to every database?
> 
> -- 
> JP

I don't have one, JP.  I think creating a script to create the 
necessary parts for filepro to see the file qualifier properly 
should be simple, something like (pseudo-shell):

( cd $newdir
> key$qual
> data$qual
echo $qual >> qualify
chown filepro *$qual ) taking input from an ls -d command

but one would have to be careful if you have non-filepro files 
in that dir or junk files or directories.

I suppose this could be expanded to list the current unqualified 
indexes in the directory and then copy them as well.  They 
would have to be initialized later.

If you used a method of actually trying to push the keystrokes into 
ddefine, I would think you might have a problem putting the 
cursor at the bottom of an 'already assigned' list of qualifiers, but 
maybe there is a way - it would be nice if you could because 
then filepro would take care of making dupe indexes.  It would 
probably still be best to precede this type of method with 
a check that the file is valid and not a non-filepro file.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.