Retrieving information from lookup file

[Don Becker]

Hi Stanley,

"Have you found it to be reliable, meaning you will always get the 
correct matches?  "

Well, the most I used it was on a Tandy, Xenix, two 8" floppies, a 5 meg 
hard drive,  and dumb terminals. Although it was slow, it was consistent 
in providing correct data.  You can test it on your system by going into 
IUA and selecting  option 6.  On my home system, it ran in a flash. I 
would assume that my Windose 10 is slower than your *nix.  There is one 
item that be more beneficial and that is the phonetic search. Typing 
errors can still provide correct info. I tried typing in bleu and then 
blue. Both provided the same info.

With a fuzzy browse you may not need a drop command due to processing by 
record order number.

Don

On 10/21/2019 4:25 AM, Stan-Lyn, Stanley Barnett wrote:
>
> Hi Don,
>
> Its been over 20 years since I’ve tried using a fuzzy search.  Not 
> sure why I abandoned yet.  Have you found it to be reliable, meaning 
> you will always get the correct matches?  Would it return records 
> containing a string reliably, as I have never expected it to do that 
> at all.  In the meantime, I will look at it again.  Speed is going to 
> be very important for this use case.  Image a clerk entering a 20 line 
> item invoice where they would be doing a search in each line item…  I 
> feel a lot of user pain…   What has been your experience?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stanley
>
> *From:*Don Becker <don at donstacklehawaii.com>
> *Sent:* Sunday, October 20, 2019 2:30 AM
> *To:* Stan-Lyn, Stanley Barnett <stanley at stanlyn.com>
> *Subject:* Retrieving information from lookup file
>
> Hi Stanley,
>
> Regarding your need to retrieve data from a long field, have you tried 
> doing a fuzzy browse look up?
> You can specify the number of records to list in the browse.
>
> The draw back is that if your file is large, it may take a few seconds 
> to display your information.
>
> Don Becker
>
> (808) 554-8565
>

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