ADV: Re: deleting blank records & error capture

[Bob Stockler]

I wrote a filePro program I call "deflate".  It uses an Alien filePro
file to target a filePro file and remove all of the empty records in
that filePro file (save one, at the end of the file).  It works on SCO
UNIX and I think most, if not all, Linux systems, and it truncates the
filePro file to the approprite size.

I'll send it to anyone as a gzipped tar archive of its filePro file if
they ask for it by private email and agree to send $50 to my favorite
charity (me) if, and only if, it works for them (otherwise they promise
to remove it from their system).

Call it shareware if you will, but it's a great utility (and it handles
BLOB and MEMO fields very well, as well as any empty saved or not saved
records in the target file).

Bob (who could have made $$$ off of this in the days of smaller HDD's)

scooter6 at gmail.com wrote (on Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:18:45PM -0400):

| Running 5.06.09 on Unix --
| 
| Two questions I have --
| 
| 1) first - We have a temporary file where new input gets put in - and a
| night process that copies that
|     data into the 'big' master file -- how do I delete the 'blank' records
| that get created in this temp file?
| 2) I have a big night time process that runs -- that has been getting
| stuck on certain parts
|     I have a script that runs all these processes - and I have a log that
| tells me when each individual
|     process starts - so I have an idea where it's getting stuck - but it's
| getting stuck on different processes
|     randomly -- how can I set the cron job on a Unix box where it
| will capture the error messages that filePro
|    is encountering?
| 
|  Thanks for any input
| 
|   Scott Ullmann
|    Newtown, PA

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