Qualifiers

[John Esak]

Actually, I've always written it right in filePro  (or years ago in C).  Why
wouldn't it be scriptable?  Probgably very easy with awk, but I think even
the Bourne shell could manage it.

Oh, yes, come to think of it... In the NEX  no, no, the Survivor Series
Accounting.... There is a very elaborate add qualifiers program and a remove
one as well.  However, that is not a free product.  In fact, it isn't
supported anymore, but I will still sell it.

Anyone who *owns* the SS Accounting and is smart enough to cull out the add
/ delete qualifier scheme and make it a little more generic than it was for
the SS package is welcome to do it and post it here.... Just the add/delete
qualifier thing....  :-)

JP, you are certainly smart enough... But what would be your incentive?

John
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
m] On Behalf Of Jean-Pierre A. Radley
> Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 3:21 PM
> To: FilePro Mailing List
> Subject: Re: Qualifiers
> 
> 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
> |  
> |   _____  
> | From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> | 
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.co
m] 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
> 
> -- 
> JP
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