rreport on Windows

[Bruce Easton]

Brian K. White wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Bruce Easton" <bruce at stn.com>
> > Kenneth Brody wrote Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:09 AM:
> >> Quoting Bruce Easton (Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:47:48 -0400):
> >> 
> >> > I have an output process that creates records in another file for
> >> > several hundred records (Windows 2000 server w/filepro 5.08).
> >> 
> >> filePro "5.08"?  I assume you mean "5.0.08"?
> > 
> > Yes.  But actually I was mistaken.  Their filePro is actually 
> > 5.0.14.
> > 
> >> 
> >> > When the process starts, the whole screen goes blank and never
> >> > shows the count-down of selected records (right now all but one
> >> > record in the file).  I don't get anything back on the screen
> >> > until the process is finished.  Is this normal behavior for
> >> > Windows filePro?
> >> 
> >> No.
> >> 
> > 
> > Any ideas on what causes this?  I run the request from their 
> > development menu which has /fp/rreport - -u -j -pq 
> > and the config editor shows the env:
> > 
> > pfprt C:\testing.txt
> > pfprtc nocodes
> > pfver ON
> > pfpto 20
> > pfnet ON
> > pffiles 300
> > pftoksize 300000
> > pfformtoksize 300000
> > 
> > The icon that starts up filepro has command his buffer size 50 
> > and number of buffers 4 and layout window height of 25 lines 
> > (someone wrote and asked about this).
> > 
> > There is no output to screen from the process.  I do close 
> > records I'm writing to at the end of each record processed 
> > in the current file.
> > 
> > Someone said that if this process is going fast enough and 
> > nothing ever slows it down, that I may never see a 
> > record count down and nothing can be done. 
> > 
> > Is that true?  (The screen was blank for a good 3-4 minutes.)
> > 
> > Bruce
> > 
> > Bruce Easton
> > STN, Inc.
> 
> It definitely only updates the display once per second or once 
> per <some unit of time> or once per <something>, not every 
> record, we can all see that plainly. So several hundred records.. 
> I have definitely seen the record counter (in all phases, 
> scanning/selecting/reading/processing) jump by several hundres of 
> records at a time while processing thousands of records on a fast 
> server with simple processing.
> 
> So I could imagine your situation.
> I would have expected at least the normal rreport screen with the 
> header/title and the bottom of screen prompts though, not a 
> totally blank screen.
> 
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The number of records selected (and I think so far have been correctly 
processed [posted into an empty file]) is 25,156.  I may have seen the 
report header for a fraction of a second when the process started.  Then 
the screen went blank until  the menu came back, as I said, about 
3-4 minutes later.  I've run it a few times - each with the same behavior.

Bruce

Bruce Easton
STN, Inc.