A REAL Filepro manual or just charge my ass and help me out with this memo exporting please

[Bill Randall]

Under Support/Resources on our website there is:

http://www.fptech.com/fptech/resources.php

*filePro® 5.0 BLOB sample*

  * Windowsblobtest.zip <http://www.fptech.com/fptech/resources/downloads/blobtest.zip>
  * SCOblobtest.tar.gz <http://www.fptech.com/fptech/resources/downloads/blobtest.tar.gz>


This applies to BLOB or MEMO data
It does not seem to have a MEMO EXPORT example but it is just reverse of IMPORT


On 8/16/2017 12:17 PM, Bruce Easton via Filepro-list wrote:
> Mike - the syntax you showed:
>
> Then: MEMO invy(367) EXPORT "c:\memo.txt"
>
> should be correct, although I don't have or see anywhere a working example of this for Windows filepro, so I can't speak to the path/file portion at the end (does it need more than one backslash for instance?).  Does filepro have permissions to write a file to the C drive?
>
> Since I'm assuming that you are running your "export multi invfile..." from Request Output and not I/U/A, I would first try to select one record to see if you can get the memo export to output the memo field data to a file from that one pass of d/rreport.
>
> Bruce
>
> On 8/16/17 12:51 AM, Mike Fedkiw via Filepro-list wrote:
>> It's been like forever since I upgraded anything because I just didn't want to deal with the new licensing stuff.
>>
>> Below is pretty much the extent of the help for the MEMO export that I'm looking for and it's not really much help.
>>
>> Is there any way of just downloading the updated help files and overwriting the ones I have now?
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Mike
>>
>> ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
>> │ Processing Table Commands                                                    │
>> │ │
>> │5.0      MEMO (cont'd) │
>> │ │
>> │        MEMO Commands │
>> │ │
>> │         MEMO xx CLEAR              Clears a window brought up with           │
>> │                                    MEMO xx SHOW.                             │
>> │ │
>> │         MEMO xx DELETE             Deletes contents of MEMO field xx.        │
>> │ │
>> │         MEMO xx EDIT               Brings up the filePro internal editor     │
>> │                                    for MEMO field xx.                        │
>> │ │
>> │         MEMO xx EXPORT filename    Exports the MEMO field xx to the          │
>> │                                    specified filename.                       │
>> │ │
>> │         MEMO xx IMPORT filename    Imports the contents of "filename" into   │
>> │                                    field xx.                                 │
>> │ │
>> ├──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
>> │  Enter -Exit  PgUp   PgDn -Scroll  F9 -Search                                │
>> └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/15/2017 11:51 PM, Laura Brody wrote:
>>> When did you last upgrade your filePro? I took over the online help files at fpTech about 3 years ago. They are now filled with the example code that was in my "Laura's filePro Help Files" product. I added entries as features were added. There are MEMO code examples in the Define Processing online help. Choose a file, a processing table then while in the IF or THEN area, press f10/HELP then search for MEMO. There is code that should help you with the various features of that command.
>>>
>>> Laura Brody
>>>
>>> On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 8:23 PM, Mike Fedkiw via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com <mailto:filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I'm so done spending hours and hours in front of my computer
>>>     trying to figure things out to no avail, EXPORTING A MEMO FIELD is
>>>     just the latest example that I still haven't a clue how to
>>>     actually do the damn thing.
>>>
>>>     Anyway, enough of the ranting....
>>>
>>>     Can anyone help me out as to where I can purchase some sort of
>>>     filepro help manual(preferably NOT written by Filepro). One that
>>>     will include examples of commands along with SYNTAX examples would
>>>     really be nice.
>>>
>>>     Because when filepro help only says this  (MEMO xx EXPORT
>>>     filename) and I've tried...
>>>
>>>     Then: MEMO invy(367) EXPORT "memo"
>>>
>>>     Then: MEMO invy(367) EXPORT "memo.txt"
>>>
>>>     Then: MEMO invy(367) EXPORT "c:\memo"
>>>
>>>     Then: MEMO invy(367) EXPORT "c:\memo.txt"
>>>
>>>     with none of them working I need to do something different it seems.
>>>
>>>
>>>     Mike
>>>
>>>
>>>
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