Re: DIR into table

2009-01-13 Thread Ken Kixmoeller/fh
On Jan 12, 2009, at 11:21 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: Our plan (ADIR and then USE / RECCOUNT) is simple and easy. What's harder? Doing it any other way! ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance:

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-13 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Ken Kixmoeller/fh wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 11:21 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: Our plan (ADIR and then USE / RECCOUNT) is simple and easy. What's harder? Doing it any other way! LOL...agreed! ;-) ___ Post Messages to:

DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Has anyone ever seen a tool to take the output from a DIR and put it into a DBF or CURSOR? I've got a need to assess the # of records in a data folder (free standing tables--no dbc) at various client sites and thought something like that would be super easy for getting this information to me. If

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Tracy Pearson
What does that give you ADIR() doesn't? Tracy -Original Message- From: MB Software Solutions General Account Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:19 PM Has anyone ever seen a tool to take the output from a DIR and put it into a DBF or CURSOR? I've got a need to assess the # of records in a

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Gil Hale
[mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com]on Behalf Of MB Software Solutions General Account Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:19 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: DIR into table Has anyone ever seen a tool to take the output from a DIR and put it into a DBF or CURSOR? I've got a need to assess

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Gil Hale
: Monday, January 12, 2009 1:48 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: DIR into table What does that give you ADIR() doesn't? Tracy -Original Message- From: MB Software Solutions General Account Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:19 PM Has anyone ever seen a tool to take

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Jean Laeremans
PROCEDURE filetree PARAMETER lcpath CREATE CURSOR filetree (name C(100),; size N(9), ; update D,; uptime C(8),;

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Tracy Pearson
How does a DOS DIR command give you # of records in a table? The return value of ADIR() gives you the number of tables in the directory. Tracy -Original Message- From: Gil Hale Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:03 PM It was ADIR() I had in mind for a Fox code based solution. I use

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Gil Hale
[mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com]on Behalf Of Gil Hale Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:03 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: DIR into table It was ADIR() I had in mind for a Fox code based solution. I use ADIR() for all kinds of other things, but never to handle that kind of slution

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Gil Hale
It doesn't. I misread the post. I was after the bytes with that little chore. Gil -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com]on Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:06 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: DIR

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Gil Hale
Come on, that's too easy! heh-heh... Looks great. Gil -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com]on Behalf Of Jean Laeremans Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:07 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: DIR into table PROCEDURE

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
On Mon, January 12, 2009 1:48 pm, Tracy Pearson wrote: What does that give you ADIR() doesn't? Actually, I had forgotten about that one BUT ADIR does NOT give the record count of the tableand that's at the core of the request/need. ___ Post

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
On Mon, January 12, 2009 1:59 pm, Gil Hale wrote: I had to do that once, long ago. I took a brute force approach as it was a one-off situation. I shelled to Command Prompt and changed to the directory in question. I then ran dir *.dbf file_list.txt I then took the resultant file_list.txt

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
On Mon, January 12, 2009 2:09 pm, Gil Hale wrote: DIR pauses for screen output, and has no no console. I tried list files to file file_list.txt and got what I needed in the resultant text file. From there it is a matter of breaking out the pieces and populating a table. Exactly...it's just

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
On Mon, January 12, 2009 2:11 pm, Gil Hale wrote: Come on, that's too easy! heh-heh... Looks great. ...and provides basically the same kind of info as ADIR (recursed) but still doesn't give me the requirement of this request---the table record count. ;-) Also, you may want to add this line

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Gil Hale
Solutions General Account Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 3:22 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: DIR into table On Mon, January 12, 2009 2:11 pm, Gil Hale wrote: Come on, that's too easy! heh-heh... Looks great. ...and provides basically the same kind of info as ADIR (recursed

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Ken Kixmoeller/fh
On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Gil Hale wrote: still doesn't give me the requirement of this request---the table record count. ;-) What, you are back to that again? Let it go, man, chill... heh-heh Mike - -- Why not just take the results of the ADIR() and open each table with an

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Stephen Russell
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 2:22 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account mbsoftwaresoluti...@mbsoftwaresolutions.com wrote: On Mon, January 12, 2009 2:11 pm, Gil Hale wrote: Come on, that's too easy! heh-heh... Looks great. ...and provides basically the same kind of info as ADIR (recursed)

RE: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Gil Hale
So many ways to skin a Fox, eh? It is nice to have options... Gil -Original Message- From: profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com]on Behalf Of Stephen Russell Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 3:31 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: DIR into table

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Richard Kaye
Check out LIST FILES in the help. Unlike DIR, it does not pause after each screen and it does include record count for DBFs. MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: On Mon, January 12, 2009 2:09 pm, Gil Hale wrote: DIR pauses for screen output, and has no no console. I tried list

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Stephen Russell
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Gil Hale g...@gilhale.com wrote: So many ways to skin a Fox, eh? It is nice to have options... I use to have a prg that would browse all the tables instead of return rowcount. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Ricardo Aráoz
MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: On Mon, January 12, 2009 1:59 pm, Gil Hale wrote: I had to do that once, long ago. I took a brute force approach as it was a one-off situation. I shelled to Command Prompt and changed to the directory in question. I then ran dir *.dbf

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Stephen Russell
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Ricardo Aráoz ricar...@gmail.com wrote: MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: On Mon, January 12, 2009 1:59 pm, Gil Hale wrote: int totalCount =0; m_dir = new DirectoryInfo(sFolder); ArrayList alFiles = new ArrayList(); foreach (FileInfo f in

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread Jeff Johnson
This is how I have done the same thing - only I open the txt file using FOPEN() Jeff Jeff Johnson j...@san-dc.com SanDC, Inc. 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 Phoenix Python User Group - sunpigg...@googlegroups.com MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: On Mon, January 12, 2009 1:59 pm,

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Ken Kixmoeller/fh wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 2:03 PM, Gil Hale wrote: still doesn't give me the requirement of this request---the table record count. ;-) What, you are back to that again? Let it go, man, chill... heh-heh Mike - -- Why not just take the results of the ADIR() and open

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Stephen Russell wrote: If you are using the dbc why not go against that as your source? Um...that was in the opit's all free tables. other way is to brute force it: adir() for any .dbfs for loop to see if you can open the table and get a reccount form it. yep...that's the current

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Gil Hale wrote: So many ways to skin a Fox, eh? It is nice to have options... That is a great strength of the Fox! ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this

Re: DIR into table

2009-01-12 Thread MB Software Solutions General Account
Ken Kixmoeller/fh wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 7:46 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account wrote: Yepthat's what I was planning to do as a Plan B. Thanks for echoing that thought, Ken! ;-) Why make things harder than they need to be??? Our plan (ADIR and then USE / RECCOUNT) is