FYI - SET_PFCMARK script

[Richard D. Williams]

You are all correct.
This should not be done without rebuilding the indexes.

Since this value only changes on January 1, a script is set to make the 
PFCMARK change and rebuild all filepro indexes.

Then that value does not change for the reset of that year.

Thanks for all of your observation,

Richard D. Williams

On 3/30/2022 5:10 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> I suppose that depends upon whether it does its magic based on the cmark
> at save or in logic upon read.
>
> m->
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 06:06:07PM -0400, Ken White thus spoke:
>>     I believe changing cmark would require you to rebuild any indexes built on
>>     date fields with two digit years.
>>
>>     On March 30, 2022 8:17:47 AM EDT, Fairlight via Filepro-list
>>     <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>>
>>   PFCMARK was a gross hack which never should have been seriously considered.
>>   Everyone should have been using 4-digit years and doing their logic based
>>   on those, then simply truncating their display fields to 2-digit years.
>>
>>   m->
>>
>>   On Wed, Mar 30, 2022 at 01:53:31AM -0400, Brian K. White via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>>
>>   Changing PFCMARK changes the meaning of data that's already been recorded.
>>   To me that means you should almost never change it. Once per career maybe,
>>   or only on new installs with no old data.
>>
>>   Really if it were up to me PFCMARK would have a special value EE or XX or
>>   something that means instead of setting the meaning of a 2-digit year, it
>>   throws an error any time a 2-digit year is encountered at all.
>>
>>   But I think it's bad advice to be changing pfcmark lightly or frequently.
>>
>>   --
>>   bkw
>>
>>   On 3/29/22 16:37, Richard D. Williams via Filepro-list wrote:
>>
>>   Here is a script I used on a Linux server to always keep PFCMARK 10
>>   years ahead.
>>
>>   cat /usr/local/bin/SET_PFCMARK
>>   YEAR=`date '+%G'`;
>>   YEAR=$((YEAR + 10));
>>   PFCMARK="${YEAR:2:2}";
>>   export PFCMARK
>>
>>   I set it in /etc/profile.d/filepro.sh and in my rc.local file.
>>   I used this syntax . /usr/local/bin/SET_PFCMARK.
>>
>>   Richard D. Williams
>>
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