Heads up on reindex....

[Nancy Palmquist]

jra at baylink.com wrote:
> Quoting Nancy Palmquist (Wed, 02 May 2007 15:13:14 -0400):
> [...]
> 
>>-ra is a nice flag but it only rebuild existing indexes the same way
>>they are currently sorted.
>>
>>I think a better method is to create a script that records the indexes
>>and sorts when they are pristine and then use it to rebuild.
> 
> 
> No one remembers that this already exists, huh?  ;-)  I can never remember
> whether it was Bob or Bill that (co-) wrote it, and it does require a ksh
> (which ought to remind me, but I'm burned out today), but docindex and
> bldindex will do this quite nicely.

As I recall, those are designed to write and execute as a script on Unix 
Systems.  My memory is vague but I think those were developed from the 
original project Bob wrote for my problem, decades ago.   However, I 
redesigned the logic to use filePro programming only and create scripts 
that attach to menus.  I did not want shell scripts, I wanted something 
that would move between Unix/Linux/Windows without problems.  It suits 
my needs much better to just hit a button and have a script attached to 
a menu that can be distributed with an application.

But I am sure that Bob was very helpful in getting the logic started, 
when filePro added logic that allowed us to read the index sorts and 
such, it was more generic to write it in filepro.

I truly apologize if I should be giving credit to someone else, it was 
so long ago I have forgotten the original source of the code.  I see 
Jerry Rains adjusted the released version distributed with Unix Filepro, 
no other credits are listed.

Nancy

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