inherited filePro code wierdness

[Joe Chasan]

-j is same as -jy - which turns index scan on (same as PFIXS=ON)

-joe

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 09:28:31PM -0400, scott.walker--- via Filepro-list wrote:
> The doc's don't have any -j flag for dreport.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott
> 
> Scott Walker
> Scott.walker at ramsystemscorp.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> On Behalf Of Scott Nelson via Filepro-list
> Sent: Monday, September 12, 2022 7:51 PM
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> Subject: inherited filePro code wierdness
> 
> So I inherited a Customer where most of the code was written by the late
> former owner of the Company, and there are some odd things that I have never
> seen nor done in fP code.
> 
> There are many lines in scripts that run /appl/fp/dreport with a -j on the
> command line.  I have only used that in clerk processing.  Will that
> actually do anything?
> 
> Many of the selection processing has copies of the code that is in the
> output processing, some writing to files in both.  Does the selection
> processing do any writes to files?
> 
> Also odd is how most lines that run fP code do dreport instead of rreport
> even though it is 4.08 filePro on Unix....
> 
> 
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-Joe Chasan-                           Magnatech Business Systems, Inc.
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