create a map in processing?

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Scott Nelson <scott at logicdatasystems.com> wrote:

> Ok, today I am doing all kinds of weird stuff....
> 
> I seem to remember someone had some processing that
> would create a map 
> in a new filePro file, from a filePro processing
> table.
> 
> Or did someone spike my tea?
> 
> Scott
> 

Perhaps they did, but that is besides the point :-)

It is possible to do this if you know the name of the
filepro file beforehand.  What I have done in the past
is create the file manually, then look at the last two
fields (colon delimited) in the map header.  These are
the checksum and encoded password for this file name. 
Armed with this, you can then delete the file (if you
wish) and use filepro's file IO commands to re-create
this file with whatever other characteristics you
want.  Just make sure you duplicate the checksum,
password, and filepro filename exactly the way it was
when you manually created the file.

Once you create the file in processing, you can do a
system call to fpcopy to have the user rename the file
if they wish.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The fastest and
easiest ways to generate filepro exports and imports.



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