Saving filePro processing tables in readable ascii format

[Mike Schwartz]

> I don't understand what you mean by tokenize when you say you are using
> dcabe and the users only use dclerk/dreport. dclerk/dreport do not look at
> token tables, and dcabe does not create them.
> 
> What happens when you manually load the table and re-save it?
> 
> You probably need to feed keystrokes into dcabe to automate this.
> 
> This is really old now and may need slight adjusting to work on your box,
but
> it worked when I used it way back when I made it.
> I think Bob Stockler had something similar but probably better.
> 
> http://www.aljex.com/bkw/filepro/#prc2ascii
> 
> --
> bkw
> 
> 
> On 10/11/2011 9:14 AM, Mike Schwartz wrote:
> >       filepro 5.6.10D4 running on SCO Openserver 6.0
> >
> >       After setting ABE=ASCII in the filePro config file and also
setting
> > "ABE=ASCII; export ABE" in my environment variables, I'm trying to use
the
> > following line to re-tokenize all of the "ordnew" PRC's:
> >
> > dcabe ordnew -CIA
> > Mike Schwartz
> >

     Thanks, Brian.  I have a similar script, but was seeing if I could get
dcabe -IAC to do what I wanted.

     I don't recall the proper phraseology for the way that filepro saves
the tables if you do not have ABE=ASCII set. 

     I'll take a look at the prc2ascii. 

Mike