How do you maximize productivity when writing filepro code in a 24x80?

Fri Aug 26 13:54:57 PDT 2016

Thanks Nancy,

Looks like your solution is on par with what I need to do.  I had thought
about that setup before but continually failed to get NFS or SMB to work
properly, therefore everything had to be done in *nix.  I'll try again.  Any
good step-by-step guides on connecting the 2 environments, and which is best
NFS or SMB?  My unix is SCO OpenServer 5.06  Currently I use Anzio's ftp to
move files between Unix and Windows. 

Also thanks for pointing us to NoteTab in regards to saving to different
targets.  I use EmEditor on Windows and it is extremely powerful.  I need to
make a test and see how it handle the different targets.

In doing remote work, you can setup Anzio on a Windows computer on the
client's network and do the share stuff you referred to.  Then use VNC or
RDP to communicate with the PC.  I do this all the time, and works great.
Even VNC supports multi large monitors...

Thanks again,
Stanley

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Stanley,

I use a blending of tools.  I have my Unix servers filepro folders shared to
windows, so I can see what I want from windows.  It takes a bit of
permission planning but works great.  I found an editor called NoteTab that
respects the colon bits and you can set it to save a process table in UNIX
mode or Windows Mode.  (Difference is linefeed).  
But if it opens a Unix file it saves a Unix file so you usually don't have
to worry.  But you could open a windows process table and save it as a Unix
process by changing the file type to Unix. (Obviously, you have to adjust
the name)  It also makes a backup file when I load the table.  After you
need to run it by the syntax checker to make sure it is good.

I can open as many files as I highlight - say all the prc. files in a
folder.  I can search/replace through them all, etc.  They are just in a
large document so paging is easy. Each file opens as a tab in the editor.

This has given me the best solution for editing so far.

I do have Unix tools that can search for text in a lot of files all at once,
but you can't beat Windows editors for cut and paste features.  (I am VI
challenged - Never took to it at all on *NIX platforms like some of my
fellow programmers.)

If ANZIO is being used to go to a computer outside your network, this method
certainly would not work, but in-house it works great. BTW - I use ANZIO to
make a session in Unix but when I have a large amount of editing the method
above works well.

Nancy

On 8/26/2016 2:01 AM, Stanley - stanlyn.com via Filepro-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
>
> Just wondering how I can interact with filepro's 24x80 fixed screen 
> environment where I can only see  6 logic lines at any one time.  This 
> is really becoming a problem when writing complicated code.  For the 
> past 18 years, I've grown accustomed to using large monitors and being 
> able to see
> 70-100 lines at once and being able to copy and paste blocks of code.
>
>   
>
> Thanks to Anzio, I am able to copy and paste segments of code, but 
> only a line at a time.  I also wished Anzio respected the traditional 
> crtl-c and ctrl-v commands instead of only the right-click menu copy/paste
commands.
>
>   
>
> In the old days with an env variable ascii  turned on, I used Scripsit 
> to edit the raw prc.tables.  I really don't want to deal with all the 
> embedded colons.  Hard to quickly read and check its syntax.
>
>   
>
> Also note that my filepro is running on SCO instead of Windows, where 
> I imagine the prc could be easily opened in something as simple as
notepad.
>
>   
>
> THE QUESTION IS.  How are you doing developing in filepro?  I'm sure 
> most of you are developing on multi large screen monitors with each 
> running in 1920 mode.  I'm just trying to be more productive in the 
> filepro ide and struggling is an understatement.
>
>   
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stanley
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