thanks for that. i have RStyled a couple of command forms and they came out clean, with just the uppercasing of keywords happening; and my abbs being fullworded (edi usi becomes EDIT USING, e.g.) I'll never get over the speed of 3 letter programming, and it makes casual observers think I know a foreign language....
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 10:25 AM, James Bentley <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > > *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: > >> 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! >> >> Karen >> >> >> >> >> 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! >> >> >> > > > -- > William Stacy, O.D. > > Please visit my website by clicking on : > > http://www.folsomeye.net > > > > > -- William Stacy, O.D. Please visit my website by clicking on : http://www.folsomeye.net
