Re: [U2] : Evaluating DCOUNT

2013-02-12 Thread Wjhonson
Yes it keeps track of the position of the current field (only), not each field. It's not indexed. Its just a one value pointer. -Original Message- From: Wols Lists To: u2-users Sent: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 12:16 pm Subject: Re: [U2] : Evaluating DCOUNT On 12/02/13 19:04, Wjh

Re: [U2] : Evaluating DCOUNT

2013-02-12 Thread Wjhonson
Correct me if I'm misunderstanding you Tom, but you said that field marks are indexes so the first scan resolves where each field begins. That is not correct, at least not literally. Count or Raising or Lowering or Scanning in general will not create an index to the position of any fields. The

Re: [U2] Job on Dice

2013-02-11 Thread Wjhonson
Why are you so nasty? I post a job opening, you act like an injured diva. Get over yourself. Grow up. -Original Message- From: Tony Gravagno <3xk547...@sneakemail.com> To: u2-users Sent: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 10:58 am Subject: Re: [U2] Job on Dice > From: Wjhonson >

[U2] Job on Dice

2013-02-11 Thread Wjhonson
Who is this in Sacramento? http://www.dice.com/job/result/grhelm/4681?c=1&src=21&utm_source=SimplyHired&utm_medium=Aggregator&utm_campaign=Advocacy_Ongoing&utm_content=Paid&CMPID=AG_SH_PD_JS_AV_OG__ I don't know of any pick companies in the Sacramento area ___

Re: [U2] : Evaluating DCOUNT

2013-02-11 Thread Wjhonson
You can also use a SELECT/SELECTV and then use a READNEXT in the loop -Original Message- From: Dave Laansma To: 'U2 Users List' Sent: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 5:30 am Subject: Re: [U2] : Evaluating DCOUNT I would HOPE that it evaluates it each time since the size of could change wit

Re: [U2] : Evaluating DCOUNT

2013-02-11 Thread Wjhonson
Yes it's assigned to a buffer and then decremented until it matches. The assign only takes place once. -Original Message- From: Ross Ferris To: U2 Users List Sent: Sun, Feb 10, 2013 11:05 pm Subject: Re: [U2] : Evaluating DCOUNT If order isn't important for dcount(array,@fm)

Re: [U2] Record locks (Unidata 7.2)

2013-02-08 Thread Wjhonson
rld are unable to access the app. I believe some heads will be nodding here because I hear about this happening occasionally. T > From: Wjhonson > Then you're misunderstanding what I'm saying. > From: Kevin King > +1. Well stated. > > Woodward, Bob wrote: &g

Re: [U2] Record locks (Unidata 7.2)

2013-02-08 Thread Wjhonson
We don't really have the luxury to rewrite the entire system. But we can fix one program a day -Original Message- From: Wols Lists To: u2-users Sent: Fri, Feb 8, 2013 1:22 am Subject: Re: [U2] Record locks (Unidata 7.2) On 08/02/13 07:30, Tony Gravagno wrote: > I think peo

Re: [U2] Record locks (Unidata 7.2)

2013-02-07 Thread Wjhonson
efault locking system of READU. > > > -Original Message- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org ] On Behalf Of > Wjhonson > Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 3:41 PM > To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org > Subject: R

Re: [U2] Record locks (Unidata 7.2)

2013-02-07 Thread Wjhonson
I wouldn't however *recommend* this approach to locking as the user can never tell if their terminal is waiting on a lock, or just "hung" in some other odd manner, or perhaps processing a batch of something. So it's rather a nasty trick to play on the user, to just use READU without a LOCKED cl

[U2] Turn pagination back on

2013-02-07 Thread Wjhonson
Someone remind me, how to do this. If pagination has been turned off, and for my embedded routine, I want to turn it back on again. How do I do this? I've tried HEADING, and PAGE, and CRT @(0,0) I know there's a trick but I can't quite recall what it is _

Re: [U2] Record locks (Unidata 7.2)

2013-02-06 Thread Wjhonson
Recte! I created me an infinite looop thingie. The DOLOOP = 0 should be INSIDE the Loop structure... obviously Bonk bonk on the head ! -Original Message- From: Wjhonson To: jwaytwells ; u2-users Sent: Wed, Feb 6, 2013 1:57 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Record locks (Unidata 7.2) You

Re: [U2] Record locks (Unidata 7.2)

2013-02-06 Thread Wjhonson
You mean you want to loop on the checking *until* the lock is released and then write? So this is for a job interview? DOLOOP = 0 LOOP READU ITSLOCKEDJIM FROM Y,Z LOCKED DOLOOP = 1 END UNTIL NOT(DOLOOP) DO SLEEP 10; *Let the system catch its breath REPEAT WRITE X ON Y,Z ELSE C

Re: [U2] Searching for 'Bad' Dates

2013-01-29 Thread Wjhonson
Just use the NUM function in an I-Descript. Any external format, has to have at least one non-numeric in it. -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett To: U2 Users List Sent: Tue, Jan 29, 2013 3:01 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Searching for 'Bad' Dates Greg: Can you do something like:

Re: [U2] [UD] Disabling/blocking ODBC

2013-01-25 Thread Wjhonson
You can can kill the unirpc process ? -Original Message- From: Jeff Schasny To: U2 Users List Sent: Fri, Jan 25, 2013 10:41 am Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] Disabling/blocking ODBC I believe both Universe and Unidata run ODBC via the standard UniRPC port 31438 unless you are runnin

Re: [U2] Universal COMO

2013-01-24 Thread Wjhonson
ou and roll them first. Probably zipping them up and moving them to an archive area would be viable. Google may even cough up a log rotate script that you could adapt. > > Regards, > Peter > > -Original Message- > From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org > [mailto

Re: [U2] Universal COMO

2013-01-23 Thread Wjhonson
enced: "don't listen to this guy". Adverb To the degree or extent indicated: "they can't handle a job this big". -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Wednesday, Jan

Re: [U2] Universal COMO

2013-01-23 Thread wjhonson
is big". -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 2:22 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Universal COMO I don't understand at all what th

Re: [U2] Universal COMO

2013-01-23 Thread Wjhonson
18:28, Wjhonson wrote: > I see a *pro* in this, for the ease of cleaning up old logs from years ago, obviously no longer needed, which can be done from the O/S level. What might be a *con* ? This isn't a pro, in that that is perfectly possible, certainly in *nix. I'm not sure

[U2] Universal COMO

2013-01-23 Thread Wjhonson
By default, Universe will create several files in each account you create. Like &SAVEDLISTS&, and &ED&... one of these default files is &COMO& which is where you can stick session logs. We use this constantly to monitor the output of phantoms, for review and debugging the next day. The logs a

Re: [U2] Unidata 6.1.13/AIX 5.3 Stops Unexpectedly

2013-01-19 Thread Wjhonson
Write a program which captures and writes the lock table to an O/S level text file, then sleeps for 15 minutes, then does it again. Kick it off as a phantom job, running forever. -Original Message- From: Kevin King To: U2 Users List Sent: Sat, Jan 19, 2013 11:16 am Subject: R

Re: [U2] Unidata 6.1.13/AIX 5.3 Stops Unexpectedly

2013-01-18 Thread Wjhonson
You need an onsite "expert user" Kevin. Just for such things. -Original Message- From: Kevin King To: U2 Users List Sent: Thu, Jan 17, 2013 7:18 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Unidata 6.1.13/AIX 5.3 Stops Unexpectedly Peter, I'm 1200+ miles away from the box. Getting to the console is

Re: [U2] Unidata 6.1.13/AIX 5.3 Stops Unexpectedly

2013-01-16 Thread Wjhonson
Other than telnet. *Go* to the server, and open a local session, *not telnet* Do you get a login prompt? Or do they I mean? Next time have them do that. It may simply be that the telnet itself died. -Original Message- From: Kevin King To: U2 Users List Sent: Wed, Jan 16, 2013

Re: [U2] External database

2013-01-13 Thread Wjhonson
If the only issue is the 2Gig limit, you can use Universe distributed files. -Original Message- From: asad50089 To: u2-users Sent: Sun, Jan 13, 2013 12:20 am Subject: Re: [U2] External database Many thanks, In fact I am running old version of UniVerse 9.6 and due to is limit

Re: [U2] {BDT] Commenting A Block Of Code

2013-01-10 Thread Wjhonson
Not G11 ? Ok I'm kidding -Original Message- From: Wols Lists To: u2-users Sent: Thu, Jan 10, 2013 3:18 am Subject: Re: [U2] {BDT] Commenting A Block Of Code On 10/01/13 01:55, Peter Cheney wrote: > Hi Bill, > > In UV's ED use the < (start block) and > (end block) to define a

Re: [U2] How to check which sproc is called by user

2013-01-07 Thread Wjhonson
impact on your running system. - Dan -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Monday, January 07, 2013 3:45 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] How to check which sproc is

Re: [U2] How to check which sproc is called by user

2013-01-07 Thread Wjhonson
Explain more this performance issue of which you speak. How is a proc in a file different from the proc in the VOC? -Original Message- From: Ed Clark To: U2 Users List Sent: Mon, Jan 7, 2013 2:43 pm Subject: Re: [U2] How to check which sproc is called by user Toad the wet sPR

Re: [U2] srs4uv.com status [Was: Corrupted object in global catalog]

2013-01-05 Thread Wjhonson
I wrote a decompiler for R83, never marketed it, just used it for my own play and insight. -Original Message- From: Gyle Iverson To: u2-users Sent: Sat, Jan 5, 2013 12:29 pm Subject: Re: [U2] srs4uv.com status [Was: Corrupted object in global catalog] You are spot on Ian. It w

Re: [U2] srs4uv.com status [Was: Corrupted object in global catalog]

2013-01-04 Thread Wjhonson
It would make more sense if you escape every char in the header :) I suspect that "1" is not a one at all, but rather part of a command to either do a Print, or do a Store. -Original Message- From: McGowan, Ian To: U2 Users List Sent: Fri, Jan 4, 2013 8:00 pm Subject: Re: [U2]

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2013-01-02 Thread Wjhonson
ld seem to not need a mask for milliseconds. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Wjhonson wrote: > > Yes like I said the Oconv using MMHSM doesn't do anything. > Your output 75575.6608 of the place TIME() is unchanged > So what's MMHSM supposed to be doing? > Because

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2013-01-02 Thread Wjhonson
Bottom. *--: I *--: FIBR Filed "TEST.TIME" in file "BP". Compiling: Source = 'BP/TEST.TIME', Object = 'BP.O/TEST.TIME' * Compilation Complete. 75575.6608 7557566 75575.6608 7557566 75575.6608 75575.6608 > This is 11.1.9 on Linux. On

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2013-01-02 Thread Wjhonson
last two digits, it's really rounding them up (o down, based on standard rounding rules) and showing hundredths. Not sure why Rocket did that, though. On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Wjhonson wrote: > On Universe 11, OCONVing it as you suggested just returns the exact same > result a

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2013-01-02 Thread Wjhonson
NV it. Use OCONV. ex: OCONV(TIME(),'MMTHS') On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Wjhonson wrote: > The 'MM' conversion works with the TIME() (which returns milliseconds) > on Universe 11 > > but for some reason is cutting off the display to only *hundredths* of a >

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2013-01-02 Thread Wjhonson
midnight. The syntax for the ICONV Milliseconds (MM) function is: ICONV(num.expr, "MM [H] [S[M]]") Regards, Doug www.u2logic.com/tools.html "Resizer for those who want current technology" On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:14 PM, Wjhonson wrote: > It's not based on ho

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2013-01-02 Thread Wjhonson
For example, on my system, the quanta is 15 milliseconds. On a quiet system, as the sole user, I cannot NAP 1 and have it come back in 1 millisecond, it takes 15. Sometimes it takes a bit more, like 16... maybe it's doing some background task. So you can't get more discrete than what the underlyi

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2013-01-02 Thread Wjhonson
an. Doug Farmer 952-417-5225 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 11:16 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic Your napping for a quarte

Re: [U2] Eclipse ? was Job ad in Ardmore, PA

2012-12-28 Thread Wjhonson
Subject: Re: [U2] Eclipse ? was Job ad in Ardmore, PA In the past actually. As you noted, the front end was completely re-written in Java. Wjhonson wrote: > Oh my... I see an 18 million dollar rewrite boondoggle in their future. > > "We can make it better, faster, rewritten in

Re: [U2] Eclipse ? was Job ad in Ardmore, PA

2012-12-28 Thread Wjhonson
(by Bill Weir) after he left the company. If you tried to run Eclipse without Eterm you would have a very scrambled screen. Eterm uses proprietary control sequences to do things like multiple overlapping windows and scrolling messages to name just a couple. Wjhonson wrote: > Hmmm I've upd

Re: [U2] Job ad in Berean, PA

2012-12-28 Thread Wjhonson
wouldn't have so many "gaps" if they gave the poor programmer better instructions! I always called software "defects" bugs, and of course you need to find the root cause, how else do you fix them? Just my 2 cents. :-) Don From: Wjhonson To: u2-users@listserv

Re: [U2] Eclipse ? was Job ad in Ardmore, PA

2012-12-28 Thread Wjhonson
Eterm ? -Original Message- From: Jeff Schasny To: U2 Users List Sent: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 11:19 am Subject: Re: [U2] Eclipse ? was Job ad in Ardmore, PA Accuterm/Wintegrate would not work with Eclipse. They have there own terminal emulator called Eterm. Wjhonson wrote: > http://en.wikip

Re: [U2] Eclipse ? was Job ad in Ardmore, PA

2012-12-28 Thread Wjhonson
/Wintegrate would not work with Eclipse. They have there own terminal emulator called Eterm. Wjhonson wrote: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuit#Intuit_Eclipse > > Does Eclipse *require* the use of the Java client? Or is that optional? > That is, can some users at one site, be us

Re: [U2] Eclipse ? was Job ad in Ardmore, PA

2012-12-28 Thread Wjhonson
- From: Wjhonson To: u2-users Sent: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 9:34 am Subject: Re: [U2] Job ad in Ardmore, PA Oops Berean is the name of the recruiter or company The job is in Ardmore. -Original Message- From: Wjhonson To: u2-users Sent: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 9:33 am Subject: [U2] Job ad

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2012-12-28 Thread Wjhonson
ption for displaying milliseconds. The only why I know to do that is to use SYSTEM(12). I guess I was just using TIME() not SYSTEM(12) as it was easier to visually scan. Doug Farmer 952-417-5225 -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listse

Re: [U2] Job ad in Ardmore, PA

2012-12-28 Thread Wjhonson
Oops Berean is the name of the recruiter or company The job is in Ardmore. -Original Message- From: Wjhonson To: u2-users Sent: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 9:33 am Subject: [U2] Job ad in Berean, PA http://www.ziprecruiter.com/job/Senior-Programmer-116879/546532a0/?source=cpc

[U2] Job ad in Berean, PA

2012-12-28 Thread Wjhonson
http://www.ziprecruiter.com/job/Senior-Programmer-116879/546532a0/?source=cpc-simplyhired Interesting they are looking for a "Programmer" but you must have "strong" knowledge of Unix, but only "intermediate" knowledge of their actual application environment :) Silly rabbits. _

Re: [U2] [UV]Corrupted object in global catalog

2012-12-28 Thread Wjhonson
Are you certain that catdir is not an O/S directory? If so, you should be able to tell the Create Date, seperately from the last "touched" date (read), or the last update date as well. You should have three dates associated with each directory entry, no? -Original Message- From:

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2012-12-28 Thread Wjhonson
Your napping for a quarter of a second is too long :) I was saying that NAP is quantized. You can't actually NAP for a microsecond. So loop 1000 and NAP 1 By the way you can return the microseconds, why are you doing MTS I never bothered to dig into it, to see on what it's quantized. Without M

[U2] [Windows] The Device in the LIST.READU output

2012-12-27 Thread Wjhonson
Universe on Windoze In the LIST.READU output there is a column called Device Is the device physically *a* disk? Or *a* server? If a server has three disks, could there be three device numbers or one? Could a single physical disk have multiple numbers ? Like sectors... partitions... directory

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2012-12-27 Thread Wjhonson
I would be careful of believing NAP :) The sleeping is, I believe, based entirely on the time slicing and clock interrupting ability, and so dependent on that mechanism internally of the underlying O/S. I have found, on various implementations, that NAP doesn't actually support any possible del

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2012-12-27 Thread Wjhonson
What you really need is the ability to POKE. So you execute the phantom and return it's handle to another process (PID) The waiter stops at a regular INPUT. The responder then could POKE something carriage return to the waiter's INPUT That would be instant reaction, no wait, and no false starting.

Re: [U2] Secrets was Vinnie Smith

2012-12-21 Thread Wjhonson
ibutor because Rocket sells direct there, distributor operate in the other geographies On 20/12/2012 19:13, "Wjhonson" wrote: > I'm not suggesting they would look on the Rocket site. > I'm suggesting we should have a list of such vars, on the Internet. > Not in someo

Re: [U2] Secrets was Vinnie Smith

2012-12-20 Thread Wjhonson
It is virtually impossible for anyone to do this except Rocket themselves. While some in their vertical might know any competitors, it's extremely doubtful they will know ALL the competitors, or even 20 percent of them. -Original Message- From: David Jordan To: U2 Users List Se

Re: [U2] Secrets was Vinnie Smith

2012-12-20 Thread Wjhonson
t runs on unidata, the ones that do ask never make a comment as it is not the reason they are buying software , what they need is a solution to their business problem. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of

Re: [U2] Secrets was Vinnie Smith

2012-12-20 Thread Wjhonson
om and you will be put in contact with our Marketing manager. Cheers - and happy xmas all! Dan From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] on behalf of Wjhonson [wjhon...@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, 19 December 2012 3:41

Re: [U2] Secrets was Vinnie Smith

2012-12-20 Thread Wjhonson
at it is a pretty rare event. George On 19/12/2012 22:41, "Wjhonson" wrote: > Then you're not understanding me. > > I am not speaking at all of sites that use home-built systems. > I am speaking of vendors, who sell application abc, to *others*, and yet their >

Re: [U2] Secrets was Vinnie Smith

2012-12-20 Thread Wjhonson
I'm not suggesting they would look on the Rocket site. I'm suggesting we should have a list of such vars, on the Internet. Not in someone's internal contact list, where it does not good to us in the field. My clients are not going to ring up their "local Rocket distributor" who has never once tr

Re: [U2] Secrets was Vinnie Smith

2012-12-19 Thread Wjhonson
Then you're not understanding me. I am not speaking at all of sites that use home-built systems. I am speaking of vendors, who sell application abc, to *others*, and yet their advertising is squelched by all the noise. If I have a client who is say a video rental store (they do still exist) and

Re: [U2] Secrets was Vinnie Smith

2012-12-19 Thread Wjhonson
Advantage to whom? It's not an advantage when a customer says they want to go to application xyz because their existing computer can't do something. It means that the MV world loses another customer. If we had a resource we could say, yes it can do that, here's the vendor who sells exactly

Re: [U2] Vinnie Smith

2012-12-19 Thread Wjhonson
9/12/2012 17:59, "Wjhonson" wrote: > That's too bad. One of the main selling points of the Pick Hits books, was > that a reseller of the OS, pitching a new hardware/support customer, could > look up if any vendor had a "Video Store" solution, or a "Collections"

Re: [U2] Vinnie Smith

2012-12-19 Thread Wjhonson
ver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:09 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Vinnie Smith Speaking of System Builder, is there a resource of "applications being sold which were written using System B

Re: [U2] Vinnie Smith

2012-12-19 Thread Wjhonson
o:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 9:57 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Vinnie Smith This is the new head of the U2 Tools. I've never heard of him (not that I should)

[U2] Vinnie Smith

2012-12-19 Thread Wjhonson
This is the new head of the U2 Tools. I've never heard of him (not that I should). Does he post here? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Universe 11.x

2012-12-14 Thread Wjhonson
What I meant to say is, No, you can't do it in five minutes. -Original Message- From: Wjhonson To: u2-users Sent: Fri, Dec 14, 2012 9:29 am Subject: Re: [U2] Universe 11.x Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha *crash* -Original Message- From: Oaks, Harol

Re: [U2] Universe 11.x

2012-12-14 Thread Wjhonson
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha *crash* -Original Message- From: Oaks, Harold To: U2 Users List Sent: Fri, Dec 14, 2012 9:16 am Subject: [U2] Universe 11.x Universe folks: Who has upgraded from Universe 10.x to Universe 11.x lately? Is it painless? Like - get the users

Re: [U2] Problem with openpath in UniVerse on windows server

2012-12-11 Thread Wjhonson
The file is open somewhere else. -Original Message- From: David Jordan To: U2 Users List Sent: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 6:35 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Problem with openpath in UniVerse on windows server Has anyone had a similar problem. Our application uses openpath to read some csv fil

Re: [U2] UV win 2008 Workgroup - ED / COPY very slow

2012-12-11 Thread Wjhonson
There's some kind of temp file that is used to hold data -Original Message- From: Manu Fernandes To: u2-users Sent: Tue, Dec 11, 2012 8:20 am Subject: [U2] UV win 2008 Workgroup - ED / COPY very slow Hi group, Using Universe 11.1.9 on win2008/workgroup logged as Administrator

Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue

2012-12-09 Thread Wjhonson
clue So sad. Do you have any hobbies? Other than creating havoc on respectable U2 lists I mean. I can recommend a good psychiatrist. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: 09 December 2012 20

Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue

2012-12-09 Thread Wjhonson
Those of use who *wish* to discuss it can continue, and those who don't want to read it, should stop reading it and whining about being *forced* to read it ;) You aren't. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.

Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue

2012-12-09 Thread Wjhonson
m: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: 09 December 2012 19:01 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue if not(cond) then Jump Label1 cmd1 cmd2 Jump Label2 * Label1: cmd3

Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue

2012-12-09 Thread Wjhonson
ic vagaries of the chosen language - except for TSQL of course which is always horrible. Brian Sent from my iPad On 9 Dec 2012, at 17:38, Wjhonson wrote: > For a single line. > I don't understand how an IF would know, for multiple lines, where it's supposed to end.

Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue

2012-12-09 Thread Wjhonson
For a single line. I don't understand how an IF would know, for multiple lines, where it's supposed to end. With a semi colon? Horrible. Computer languages should be written for humans to read, not machines. -Original Message- From: u2ug To: louiebergsagel ; U2 Users List Sen

Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue

2012-12-09 Thread Wjhonson
So your company hired you to write in Python with no work experience in Python? -Original Message- From: Louie Bergsagel To: U2 Users List Sent: Sun, Dec 9, 2012 12:21 am Subject: Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue I'm in my current job because I was wil

Re: [U2] SB Client question

2012-12-07 Thread Wjhonson
Insert is a Mode. Hitting it again doesn't Toggle. It's not off and on, its a selector as in "I want Insert Mode please" So hitting it again just says that again. The toggle is the kill mode, or delete mode. Don't insert at my position, kill my position, delete the key I'm on... That's the toggle

Re: [U2] U2 Toolkit for .NET and Windows PowerShell - how?

2012-12-05 Thread Wjhonson
It seems like the U2 Support Team, should put these examples of How To Do, on the Rocket website -Original Message- From: Symeon Breen To: 'U2 Users List' Sent: Wed, Dec 5, 2012 1:15 am Subject: Re: [U2] U2 Toolkit for .NET and Windows PowerShell - how? Stackoverflow is for pe

Re: [U2] Advantage of indirect call in BASIC

2012-12-04 Thread Wjhonson
Why do you call it "ring" jump in particular? What's the "ring" ? -Original Message- From: Wols Lists To: u2-users Sent: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 4:07 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Advantage of indirect call in BASIC On 04/12/12 17:03, Wjhonson wrote: > Ring-jump

Re: [U2] Advantage of indirect call in BASIC

2012-12-04 Thread Wjhonson
Ring-jump ? Vas is das -Original Message- From: Wols Lists To: u2-users Sent: Tue, Dec 4, 2012 8:37 am Subject: Re: [U2] Advantage of indirect call in BASIC On 04/12/12 16:06, Jeff Schasny wrote: > I'll second Allen Egerton's "left over from Prime Information" theory. I > dist

[U2] Advantage of indirect call in BASIC

2012-12-03 Thread Wjhonson
I've not encountered this is my career previously, but now I'm seeing a system written almost entirely with the use of indirect calls in Universe BASIC. That is SOURCE = "*SOME.PROGRAM" ... CALL @SOURCE(INPUTS) Is there some advantage to the use of indirect calls that a system would be written

Re: [U2] Universe 10.2

2012-11-30 Thread Wjhonson
Hmmm so all those who are still on 10.2 should stop paying for it :) -Original Message- From: Doug Averch To: U2 Users List Sent: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 12:27 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Universe 10.2 Harold: Universe 10.2 EOM was September 30, 2010. U2logic is a Rocket Software VAR. W

Re: [U2] Things you shouldn't do.....

2012-11-30 Thread Wjhonson
Don't give fire to children! bad bad bad! -Original Message- From: Wols Lists To: u2-users Sent: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 10:36 am Subject: Re: [U2] Things you shouldn't do. On 30/11/12 16:39, Cypress Support wrote: > The &PH& file is a type 1 file(a directory). > > On AIX: When

Re: [U2] BFORMAT

2012-11-29 Thread Wjhonson
By the way, I don't see why ED couldn't be easily modded to allow arguments to FORMAT. The main referrent is line 531, but the INPUT.LINE or ORIGINAL.CMD could be parsed to find the arguments -Original Message----- From: Wjhonson To: u2-users Sent: Thu, Nov 29, 201

Re: [U2] BFORMAT

2012-11-29 Thread Wjhonson
Yeah looking at the actual code that both FORMAT and ED call (not in AE) it doesn't have any arguments. So maybe using AE would be a good option, if someone can peer inside and confirm that it can take arguments like this. I don't see the code for AE in the BP file in uv, where is it?

Re: [U2] BFORMAT

2012-11-29 Thread Wjhonson
--Original Message----- From: Wjhonson To: u2-users Sent: Thu, Nov 29, 2012 9:07 am Subject: Re: [U2] BFORMAT The default format options in ED are controlled in the ED.B program in the BP of the uv account. You can also setup your own Format program, without modding the FORMAT.B just by changing

Re: [U2] BFORMAT

2012-11-29 Thread Wjhonson
The default format options in ED are controlled in the ED.B program in the BP of the uv account. You can also setup your own Format program, without modding the FORMAT.B just by changing ED to call your special formatter instead of the -FORMAT.BASIC catalogued routine. There's some wacky stu

Re: [U2] BFORMAT

2012-11-28 Thread Wjhonson
ED has FORMAT but what I'm curious about is how anyone knows what arguments FORMAT can take? The HELP in ED doesn't specify that it can take arguments So where are these documented? -Original Message- From: Doug Averch To: U2 Users List Sent: Wed, Nov 28, 2012 3:05 pm Subject: R

Re: [U2] BFORMAT

2012-11-28 Thread Wjhonson
ED BP A 10 lines long : FOR Try "HELP". -Original Message- From: Martin Braid To: U2 Users List Sent: Wed, Nov 28, 2012 1:48 pm Subject: Re: [U2] BFORMAT Pass on BFORMAT but ummm, doesn't ED have the FOR command? FOR -M0 -I2 (margin zero, indent 2) Martin

Re: [U2] SpooerPlus for converting D3 to UniData

2012-11-23 Thread Wjhonson
The title of this thread should probably be SpoolerPlus I think SpooerPlus is something else -Original Message- From: David Taylor To: U2 Users List Sent: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 8:42 am Subject: Re: [U2] SpooerPlus for converting D3 to UniData Hi Danny, As a VAR who has both

Re: [U2] UV11.1.9 uvconfig issue

2012-11-21 Thread Wjhonson
Why would 800 users need such an enormous number of locks? -Original Message- From: Colin Lucas To: U2 Users List Sent: Wed, Nov 21, 2012 5:19 pm Subject: Re: [U2] UV11.1.9 uvconfig issue I would not consider those values as large. I did ask via our supplier in Australia ( Me

Re: [U2] United States Postal Service - Intelligent Mail barcode

2012-11-20 Thread Wjhonson
That's why we changed. Because you don't have a choice no mo. -Original Message- From: George Gallen To: U2 Users List Sent: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 11:07 am Subject: Re: [U2] United States Postal Service - Intelligent Mail barcode I think the post office phased out discounts for PO

Re: [U2] United States Postal Service - Intelligent Mail barcode

2012-11-20 Thread Wjhonson
I lied. Evidently we use something called BulkMailer. We pass it the information and it returns the ascii string, that then gets passed to our printer to make the barcode. -Original Message- From: Wjhonson To: u2-users Sent: Tue, Nov 20, 2012 9:43 am Subject: Re: [U2

Re: [U2] United States Postal Service - Intelligent Mail barcode

2012-11-20 Thread Wjhonson
counts. Did you write a UniBasic program to handle the encoding, or did you go another route such as using one of the USPS's Java or C encoding programs? - Original Message - From: "Wjhonson" To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:29:59 AM

Re: [U2] United States Postal Service - Intelligent Mail barcode

2012-11-20 Thread Wjhonson
They don't *need* to :) they *want* to Because you get a bulk mailer discount if you do, and you sort it, and its 500 pieces or larger. Something like that. We just did it. Personally they probably spent more to program it then they'll ever see in savings. Ha. -Original Message---

Re: [U2] mailserver test

2012-11-18 Thread Wjhonson
Who rang that bell! -Original Message- From: Robert Houben To: U2 Users List Sent: Sun, Nov 18, 2012 8:10 am Subject: Re: [U2] mailserver test pong... -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behal

Re: [U2] Multiple UniData Indexes in same select

2012-11-07 Thread Wjhonson
What about Universe? -Original Message- From: Wally Terhune To: U2 Users List Sent: Wed, Nov 7, 2012 9:05 am Subject: Re: [U2] Multiple UniData Indexes in same select No on UniBasic SELECTINDEX statement. Not sure I'd call a change made at UniData 5.2 in June of 2000 as 'new

Re: [U2] Multiple UniData Indexes in same select

2012-11-07 Thread Wjhonson
The first one -Original Message- From: Doug Farmer To: U2 Users List Sent: Wed, Nov 7, 2012 6:35 am Subject: [U2] Multiple UniData Indexes in same select Good morning, I should know this, but as the gray gets thicker, some of the old knowledge seeps away. If you have indexes

Re: [U2] Is the LMODE column helpful for something?

2012-11-06 Thread Wjhonson
Brian -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Wjhonson Sent: 06 November 2012 17:59 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Is the LMODE column helpful for something? Okay it's called

Re: [U2] Is the LMODE column helpful for something?

2012-11-06 Thread Wjhonson
Okay it's called a "lock semaphore" What is that, and why would two different users have the same lock semaphore? -Original Message- From: Wjhonson To: u2-users Sent: Tue, Nov 6, 2012 9:37 am Subject: [U2] Is the LMODE column helpful for something? In my lock

[U2] Is the LMODE column helpful for something?

2012-11-06 Thread Wjhonson
In my lock table there is a column called Lmode it has a two digit number and also "RU" which I guess means "Read Update" although I haven't tested other types of locking. What is this two-digit number and can it be useful to me for something? It's not unique across users, and also one user can

Re: [U2] How to create an entry in the Universe errlog file?

2012-11-02 Thread Wjhonson
You can kludge it. The errlog is used by a motley collection of snarky routines. Most of them are not going to be useful for what you want, and only God and his Dog know why this collection was selected while other routines were ignored. But you want something like "tell me something is wrong and

Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue

2012-11-02 Thread Wjhonson
Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing Took me from 42 wpm to 78 wpm in two weeks. I'm not kidding -Original Message- From: Charlie Noah To: U2 Users List Sent: Fri, Nov 2, 2012 6:07 am Subject: Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue Just old fashioned, I guess, Meck

Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue

2012-11-01 Thread Wjhonson
Where's my pitchfork? -Original Message- From: Brian Leach To: U2 Users List Cc: U2 Users List Sent: Thu, Nov 1, 2012 3:22 pm Subject: Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue hmm and there was I thinking it was tiime for RPL.NET. All it would need is a to

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