ADV: Re: deleting blank records & error capture

[Bob Stockler]

DEFLATE also runs on Windows if Perl is installed.

Bob Stockler wrote (on Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 08:32:15PM -0400):

| 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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