[!! SPAM] Qualifiers

[Nancy Palmquist]

frank7767 at aol.com wrote:
>  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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Frank,

I was writing a confirmation of the other methods and I had a 
revelation.  Hope this helps.

If you make one file with the key files and the data files you need, you 
can copy those to every file - since they are all zero length, you just 
need the names in each file.  In windows you would just paste the same 
set of key??? and data??? into each file.  In Unix, (I just open the 
folders from my windows side with samba and do the same thing - but that 
might not work for you.  I don't have a great tool but maybe your Unix 
has a GUI side also.)

Then use the Rebuild all Indexes script filepro will make for you for 
rebuilding all your indexes.  All current versions of filepro have one.  
You can edit the script so you just leave the files you are making. Just 
run it once for each qualifer to build the indexes.  PFQUAL=xxx;export 
PFQUAL or set PFQUAL=xxx in the environment will cause all the indexes 
to be run with that qualifier.

And you got it.  Now if you need some key files to be loaded with data 
from another qualifier, just do that before the indexes and you got it 
without too much trouble.




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