William,
Based on experience converting from 4.5++ for dos to later versions here are a
couple of tips.
1. Check out Razzak's from the edge (FTE) articles on converting DOS to Windows
2. Bring up each command file in the RBase Editor (RBEDIT) and RStyle each file.
3. Experiment with the RStyle options. I am partial to:
Split Multi-Commands
Set Var Splitting
Error Checking: Enabled
Keyword casing: Upper
Non-Keyword Casing: Disabled
[ Enable] unwrapping (before wrap)
Smart code wrapping: Single Column
Structure Indenting: 2 spaces
Continued line indenting: 2 spaces with Mixed Double indenting
Jim Bentley
American Celiac Society
[email protected]
tel: 1-504-737-3293
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>From: William Stacy <[email protected]>
>To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]>
>Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 4:09:24 PM
>Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: San Diego Super Advanced Training
>
>thanks. I decided to do the forms and reports from scratch for aesthetic
>reasons mostly, but i'm starting to like it. re command files, i've not even
>scratched that surface yet. thanks for the tip, but i'm hoping my cmd files
>are
>pretty clean. the R:> prompt works well for testing commands...
>
>
>On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:42 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
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>William: I have on taps a conversion from 4.5++ to windows 9.1. We need to
>keep the 4.5 DOS alive for a bit as we bring pieces over to windows. I found
>out that the 4.5 code is so sloppy that some commands wouldn't run in DOS 7.6.
>
>I tested the particular code that breaks and it did run in DOS 6.5. So I
>worked
>with RBTI and they let the company purchase a copy of DOS 6.5 rather than DOS
>7.6 and we will convert the DOS app to 6.5. Another case of RBTI doing
>whatever's necessary to get these old DOS apps converted as quickly as
>possible!
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>>Karen
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>>If by "production" you mean a newly converted database (from 4.5++ to 9.1,
>>tables and views only), I'm with you. It won't actually be "in" production
>>as
>>in running my business with it until after the new forms and reports are
>>added.
>>At the rate I'm going, that's gonna take a while. Target: 2- 4 weeks,
>>realistically, 3 or 4 months!
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>William Stacy, O.D.
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>http://www.folsomeye.net
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