Just to be 100% clear - it's not just indexes on subroutines that will get out
of sync. Even indexing a simple TRANS statements will cause problems.
This is because the index is updated whenever the primary file (the one with
the index) is updated. If the data is in the 2nd file (the TRANS or
While I am glad to find out about LIST DICT.DICT, it is not clear to me
what it is.
Elaboration would be appreciated.
--Bill
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From: owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org
[mailto:owner-u2-us...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Jo Lester
Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 6:39 PM
Hi,
While I am glad to find out about LIST DICT.DICT, it is not clear
to me what it is.
DICT.DICT is the dictionary that describes dictionaries (and hence itself
too).
It is used whenever you do
LIST DICT filename
Martin Phillips
Ladybridge Systems Ltd
17b Coldstream Lane, Hardingstone,
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 7:30 PM, Charlie Noah cwn...@comcast.net wrote:
Considering the nature of secondary indexes, and not just Universe, you
should never count on an index built on a subroutine to be updated
automatically. If Universe does this, it must be magic. ;-) The same goes
One quick point is that this is one of the differences between Pick
heritage Prime heritage.
See Guide for Pick Users in the UV doc set. If you were a Pickie, it
helps UV make sense in a hurry. UV republished that guide after a long
lapse, thanks to U2UG's pressure, iirc.
For Primates, the
Sorry if I was too short. DICT.DICT is the default dictionary of all
Dictionary files that ships with the system and defines how the Dictionaries
of all files are structured.
By listing it you can see what part of a record to inspect to extract the
information you want.
You will see that
Check the documentation on CALCULATE() and its shorthand notation {} in
the UniData manuals.
Cheers,
Ken
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From within UniBasic, I need to determine the name of a DICTionary
field, given the dict field number.
While I have the beginnings of some code, some help is
