Re: [U2] Embedding JPG/GIF

2005-10-04 Thread Don Kibbey
I'll second the elfring folks. They made it dirt simple to have a signature on a check. They also turned our logo into a font to snazz up the check a bit. On 9/29/05, Bill_H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Karl: Have the signature sent to http://www.elfring.com/signatur.htm and they will convert

[U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Jeffrey Butera
I know there are native tools in Unidata to output XML datasets. However, can anyone shed light on tools (custom or native) to read/parse XML data? -- Jeff Butera, Ph.D. Administrative Systems Hampshire College [EMAIL PROTECTED] 413-559-5556 --- u2-users mailing list

[U2] UniBasic

2005-10-04 Thread Jim Cullen
Hello all! I'm new to the group and am trying my hand at UniBasic to develop custom routines. My current issue is probably an easy one. When I issue the FIB command in AE, or the BASIC command in ECL, it tells me that BASIC is not a verb. I'm sure that I'm missing something simple!

RE: [U2] UniBasic

2005-10-04 Thread Keith W. Roberts
Are you in lower case? That's usually my problem when I get that message. :) Original Message From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Cullen Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 6:58 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] UniBasic Hello all! I'm new

RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Glen Batchelor
There's a barbaric parser, as well as an XML node toolkit, on PickSource. Just go to downloads and look for the XML sub-group in the categories. The simplest method for parsing XML is to break the document down by . Well-formed XML will never contain a or character that isn't part of an

RE: [U2] UniBasic

2005-10-04 Thread David A. Green
Jim, As a security feature a lot of VARS remove that command (verb) from the VOC. Or perhaps they have a utility that they want you to use instead? So first check with your VAR before changing your VOC. Thank you, David A. Green DAG Consulting (480) 813-1725 www.dagconsulting.com

RE: [U2] the 4 letter word

2005-10-04 Thread Allen E. Elwood
And are you still using a hand crank record player too?? zing -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Monday, October 03, 2005 20:08 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] the 4 letter word Being one of the most

RE: [U2] UniBasic

2005-10-04 Thread Jim Cullen
I've tried it both ways... the FIB command in AE calls the BASIC command and it does the same thing! Crazy... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith W. Roberts Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:32 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org

[U2] PICK 101

2005-10-04 Thread Chuck Mongiovi
Hey all, We've got a new employee at my company with no PICK experience at all .. Does anyone know of anywhere local to get a PICK 101 course in the NYC area? Thanks .. -Chuck --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] the 4 letter word

2005-10-04 Thread George Gallen
The important part here is knowing when to use it properly. Even a hand crank record player can be used properly. Just because there are better ways or alternative ways doesn't make the the manual record player unusable. Just think, if the power grid goes down, you would jump at the

RE: [U2] UniBasic

2005-10-04 Thread Allen E. Elwood
If you wanted to repair the voc for it, you could: COPY VOC BASICAUTOMATICPROCESSING,BASIC And that would put it back. However, you may find SB1 deleting it again when you do backups. It's a Manage-2000 thing... I'd still use EDP. Better, Faster, Quicker and the colors don't fade - even

Re: [U2] the 4 letter word

2005-10-04 Thread Serguei
Using GOTO properly is using it in languages that cannot be programmed without GOTO. For example Fortran 4 or original Basic. Using it e.g. in Fortran 77 or in UniBasic would already be not a proper use. The same as playing records on crank record player would be good idea if you have no electric

RE: [U2] - [u2C] the 4 letter word

2005-10-04 Thread George Gallen
our worst fears are coming true I'll reply on community list -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Serguei Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 12:57 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] the 4 letter word Using GOTO properly is

RE: [U2] the 4 letter word

2005-10-04 Thread Marilyn Hilb
Since I started this thread.. am I allowed to say.. END OF THREAD! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Serguei Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 11:57 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject:Re: [U2] the 4 letter word

RE: [U2] UniBasic

2005-10-04 Thread Jim Cullen
I just got a call from Manage-2000 and all I had to do was add a file to the VOC that contains 2 lines: V and BASIC... Crazy simple, but I had no idea. Meanwhile I located Edieditor.exe, which he said still requires BASIC in the VOC. I going to try it now! Thanks for all your help! Jim

RE: [U2] the 4 letter word

2005-10-04 Thread Norman Morgan
Using GOTO properly is using it in languages that cannot be programmed without GOTO. For example Fortran 4 or original Basic. Using it e.g. in Fortran 77 or in UniBasic would already be not a proper use. The same as playing records on crank record player would be good idea if you have no

Re: [U2] PICK 101

2005-10-04 Thread Thomas Derwin
Matt Stern at Comprehensive Computer Services does Pick training. He's on Long Island. Comprehensive Computer Services Inc 560 Broadhollow Road Melville, NY 11747 631-755-2250 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/04/05 11:50 AM Hey all, We've got a new employee at my company with no PICK experience at all

RE: [U2] the 4 letter word

2005-10-04 Thread Larry Hiscock
The-command-that-must-not-be-named is like a fine cigar. You know you shouldn't. You know it's bad for you. Nonetheless, it's satisfying when done right. If the use of GOTO is not proper in UniBasic, why does the language include the verb? I have plenty of electric power sockets in my house.

Re: [U2] PICK 101

2005-10-04 Thread Clifton Oliver
Is Matt still doing training? His web site home page doesn't mention PICK, MultiValue, training or anything except security. Unfortunately, the rest of his links are broken. If someone knows or finds out for sure, how about reporting back to the group? -- Regards, Clif

RE: [U2] Java calss calls a universe subroutine

2005-10-04 Thread Vance, Kathy
Thank you. Your tip gets me start. Here is the code I tested based on the sample codes below and it works. Just share this here. UniSession mSession = new UniSession(); mSession.setHostName(host); mSession.setUserName(userid); mSession.setPassword(passwd);

Re: [U2] PICK 101

2005-10-04 Thread Dawn Wolthuis
I don't know about courses, but I did write something that might help. It hasn't been converted from flashcards to the web flawlessly, but take a look at my little MultiValue Triology at http://tincat-group.com/mv/trilogy.html. You might combine that with Jon Sisk's PICK BASIC book that is online

RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Metherall, Arthur
Jeff, Depending on the release of UniData 6.0, or 6.1 (7.? not sure haven't seen it) the UniData preparation is some what different between versions: UDT 6.0 You need to create a Extraction file definition (see chapter(s) 10-Using UniQuery, or 14-Using Unidata the chapters

RE: [U2] PICK 101

2005-10-04 Thread Chuck Mongiovi
Matt Stern at Comprehensive Computer Services does Pick training. He's on Long Island. His answering machine works, so I left him a message .. http://tincat-group.com/mv/trilogy.html These are great! .. Jon Sisk's PICK BASIC book that is online I happen to have a mirror of it, so I can

[U2] Backups -- Universe

2005-10-04 Thread Susan Joslyn
Greetings group. What are you folks using for backups these days? In terms of media and management thereof? Especially on Universe? TIA, Susan --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] Backups -- Universe

2005-10-04 Thread GarryS
In the bigger picture - who has a comprehensive Disaster Recovery Plan? We are looking at a company evault.com that also does AIX backup over the web. Our owner wants to pursue a Disaster Recovery plan so if a catastrophic event hits California, that we have our data stored out-of-state and can

Re: [U2] PICK 101

2005-10-04 Thread Results
Chuck, If you'd like some one-on-one mentoring for your new employee, let me know. I've done that successfully before, working with a new guy in-office, with real projects. - Chuck [EMAIL PROTECTED] (718) 762-3884 x 1 P. O. Box 540957, Linden Hill, NY 11354-0957

RE: [U2] Backups -- Universe

2005-10-04 Thread Paul Trebbien
We use Veritas as have several systems to back up and wanted to back them up on a single tape. Our backup library consists of Monday-Thursday tapes, 4 Friday tapes, and Month End tapes. I do a full backup every Friday and the weekday backups are Differential which is data that differs from the

RE: [U2] Fw: More U2 programming hints

2005-10-04 Thread Stevenson, Charles
This is a bit disconcerting. BASIC SELECT should be faster than EXECUTE SELECT... Maybe the smart people can weigh in on this: From: Louis Windsor A few years ago we used the BASIC SELECT FILE as opposed to the EXECUTE SELECT FILE. We updated UniVerse (don't ask from what version to

RE: [U2] Fw: More U2 programming hints

2005-10-04 Thread Allen E. Elwood
This is the way it was explained to me way back in '88. The internal select is slower on the whole file, but immediate in response. It works the same as LIST. If I list a file with 2,000,000 records I get immediate response. If I want to process an entire file, then external select is slower

RE: [U2] Fw: More U2 programming hints

2005-10-04 Thread Dan Fitzgerald
But... using an external select then reading in the records means grabbing the records from disk or cache twice. Like most things, it's a judgement call. Are you going to select the entire file and evaluate each record in basic? No brainer; use an internal select. Sre you sorting? then maybe

Re[2]: [U2] the 4 letter word

2005-10-04 Thread David Tod Sigafoos
Mark, Monday, October 3, 2005, 8:08:26 PM, you wrote: MJ Being one of the most (four letter word) supporters (probably because I MJ understand how to use it properly), notice I didn't bring it up. they always think 'they' know how to use it G -- DSig `

RE: [U2] PICK 101

2005-10-04 Thread Debster
the bigger question is why, when there are so many PICK people scrambling for spots especially in the Northeast was a non-PICK person hired? Especially when many Pickies are multi-lingual...and multi-host -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Tony Gravagno
It's very easy to create/parse XML with .NET technologies. If you have a schema then you can read an XML document, convert it into an ADO.NET dataset in one statement, then you can push it into U2 very easily after that with mv.NET or PDP.NET. UO.NET would take more work because it does not have

RE: [U2] the 4 letter word

2005-10-04 Thread Stuart . Boydell
I'd say it's more like collecting cigarette butts out of rubbish bins, wrapping the tobacco in old fish and chip paper and inhaling deeply... If you're an indigent nicotine addict, it's still satisfying, you get your hit no matter what and you don't care if anyone tells you

RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Stuart . Boydell
Tony, I'm interested, why not just use xslt to convert the XML directly into a U2 string and then pass in the data using uodotnet subroutines. Is there some advantage in using an extra step of converting to ADO? Stuart -Original Message- It's very easy to

RE: [U2] the 4 letter word

2005-10-04 Thread Bruce Nichol
Goo'day, Stuart, At 12:19 05/10/05 +1000, you wrote: I'd say it's more like collecting cigarette butts out of rubbish bins, wrapping the tobacco in old fish and chip paper and inhaling deeply... Just goes to show how much you know about the subject. grin You have to light it

RE: [U2] Fw: More U2 programming hints

2005-10-04 Thread Stuart . Boydell
... the next question I'd ask is, can I use an index?. Yes? External select. No? Internal. or use the basic SELECTINDEX statement. Stuart ** This email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and

RE: [U2] more serious notes on GOTO

2005-10-04 Thread Tony Gravagno
Larry Hiscock wrote: If the use of GOTO is not proper in UniBasic, why does the language include the verb? - Because all BASICs derive from Dartmouth BASIC so it was in there from the start and a lot of old code depends on it. - Because all BASIC programmers know about it and _may_ want to use

RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Tony Gravagno
Stuart wrote: Tony, I'm interested, why not just use xslt to convert the XML directly into a U2 string and then pass in the data using uodotnet subroutines. Is there some advantage in using an extra step of converting to ADO? If you know xslt, xpath, xquery, etc, knock your

Re: [U2] Backups -- Universe

2005-10-04 Thread Ray Wurlod
I use uvbackup, and the UNIX dudes take their own system backups. Fortunately this is not a 24x7 operation, so there is a quiet time. I use uvbackup to a disk image (a disk not used at all by UniVerse applications), and that gets backed up in the system backup. I use SUSPEND.FILES to