Qualifiers

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Yes, using ddefine to add a bunch of qualifiers to a filePro database is
quickly done by ddefine, but Frank, I think, was staring at several
hundred filePro database directories in each of which he wants to add
the same five qualifiers.

I can see that being rather tedious.  But is it scriptable?


John Esak propounded (on Thu, Dec 03, 2009 at 03:06:48PM -0500):
| I have written both Unix and Windows filePro programs to do this... but I
| just looked in the place where they should be and they weren't...  :-(  I'll
| look again soon.  Maybe someone else will post something, but you should
| mention which platform. You do know that if the file you are adding
| qualifiers to, has all the proper indexes, and you add the qualifier through
| the ddefine method, it will make all the keys/datas/indexes for you... so it
| really isn't very hard.  My programs just did it for a qualifier typed in by
| a user during another process.
|  
| What did you mean by "tedious"?
|  
| John
|  
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| From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
| [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf
| Of frank7767 at aol.com
| Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 2:57 PM
| To: filepro-list at celestial.com
| Subject: Qualifiers
| 
|  I am in adding 5 qualifiers to an existing Filepro system....The process of
| adding them is very tedious.
| is there a way to add these qualifiers to all the filepro files via a script
| or any other way?
|  
| Regards
| Frank Gemeinhardt

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JP