Re: [U2] RE: UV Timed INPUT

2009-03-12 Thread Charlie Noah
the network to catch up with you. It takes some tweaking, but faster hardware lessens the effect. Of course, if you're not networked in any way, then I'm probably all wet. I've been there before. Regards, Charlie Noah Inland Truck Parts Company George Gallen wrote: I Tried

Re: [U2] RE: UV Timed INPUT

2009-03-12 Thread Charlie Noah
George, Email me tomorrow at charlien at inlandtruck.com and remind me and I'll share some code with you that worked extremely well on Universe, and now on Jbase - it's almost identical. I almost never get those straggling characters anymore. Charlie Charlie Noah wrote

Re: [U2] DO/WHILE vs IF THEN

2009-03-30 Thread Charlie Noah
all the same to me. This thread has certainly shown that there are many ways to skin a cat, but no matter which one you pick, the cat's not going to like it very much. ;-) Best regards and Hi to some very familiar names I haven't corresponded with in a long time, Charlie Noah

Re: [U2] UV resize error

2009-05-04 Thread Charlie Noah
), is to manually do a cp and rm. That's the net result of mv anyway. Hope this helps. Charlie Noah Inland Truck Parts Company Formerly Universe, now Jbase On 5/4/2009 4:01 PM, John Hester wrote: I got an error message I've never seen before when attempting to resize a couple of dynamic

Re: [U2] Auto-updating of secondary indices.

2009-05-22 Thread Charlie Noah
, 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 for any dictionary definition

Re: [U2] UV BASIC Flowing Charting Tools

2009-05-26 Thread Charlie Noah
in seeing their software as well. Guys? Knowing how snarled and convoluted some of our legacy programs are, this would be extremely difficult software to design and build, and I applaud those who have done so. Regards, Charlie Noah Inland Truck Parts Company On 5/26/2009 4:45 PM, Dan

Re: [U2] UV and triggers

2009-07-19 Thread Charlie Noah
. Just my 2 cents worth. Regards, Charlie Noah Inland Truck Parts Company On 7/13/2009 10:25 AM, Israel, John R. wrote: It has been my experience that you can RETURN out any program or subroutine. If it is the top-level code, it simply stops. If it was called, it simply returns back to the calling

Re: [U2] UV and triggers

2009-07-20 Thread Charlie Noah
Universe tried to make the rules. Personally, I'm glad he stuck to his guns. Well, for the most part, anyway. On a few issues I think he got run over by others and just said whatever. Regards, Charlie Noah On 7/20/2009 1:14 PM, Mecki Foerthmann wrote: John, there is another MV-world out

Re: [U2] U2 is now Rocket U2

2009-10-11 Thread Charlie Noah
, flexible and strong. I just wish the rest of the world could see it. Best Regards, Charlie Noah On 10/9/2009 8:24 AM, Smith, Robert wrote: At some point, we will hopefully evolve beyond the old = undesirable mentality that is pervasive in our society, and once again appreciate the imagery

Re: [U2] Code Coverage Project

2009-11-29 Thread Charlie Noah
-- Message: 3 Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:10:38 -0600 From: Charlie Noah To: U2 Users List u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Code Coverage Project Message-ID: 4b11214e.2090...@comcast.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed If I can get it to work in Jbase (assuming

Re: [U2] Spooler for Windows AD

2010-02-14 Thread Charlie Noah
. It was disappointing not to be able to find out, however. Regards, Charlie Noah Sr. Systems Analyst Inland Truck Parts Company On 02-10-2010 12:15 PM, Dave Taylor wrote: Hi Jerry, AD We offer a generic Pick print spooler, SpoolerPlus, that runs on Universe (Windows 2003, XP/Pro, Windows 2000, RHEL and AIX

Re: [U2] U2's Latest Tour

2010-03-13 Thread Charlie Noah
Definitely written by someone to whom English is not the native language. On 03-13-2010 8:08 AM, Dan Fitzgerald wrote: That's funny. I wonder if it was a 'bot or a person who subscribed? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-18 Thread Charlie Noah
(Zebra, Datamax, etc.), and send the very simple codes to it. Used or reconditioned ones are very inexpensive, and new ones aren't prohibitively expensive. Charlie Noah Sr. Systems Analyst Inland Truck Parts Company On 05-18-2010 3:45 PM, Caminiti, Marc wrote: Quick, maybe not necessarily U2

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-05-19 Thread Charlie Noah
, BAR.HEIGHT, ORIENTATION, PASSED.PARAMS) * Title:PRINT.BARCODE.128.HP.SUB * Written by: Charlie Noah * Date written: 1988 * Print barcode in Code 128 on HP Laserjet printers * (C) Copyright 1988 Charles W. Noah Associates * * Rev 02-19-2010

Re: [U2] Different Number of Arguments Error

2010-05-22 Thread Charlie Noah
Al, Where did you download PLS.BAR128 from? (bad grammar, I know, but the correct form sounds so stilted) I'd like to check it out, because I never assume that what I wrote is the absolute best way to do it, and I always want to learn new techniques. Regards, Charlie Noah On 05-21-2010 11

Re: [U2] QSORT (Or something like that)

2010-05-24 Thread Charlie Noah
Shawn, Betcha Tony's is faster ;^) (it's scary fast). Charlie On 05-24-2010 2:40 PM, Shawn Hayes wrote: Thanks Rex... I just created a little routine to do this also. I thought that it might have been built in to the Unibasic language. Anyways, here is the code I came up with (not fully

Re: [U2] QSORT (Or something like that)

2010-05-24 Thread Charlie Noah
algorithms, and most work well if the load is light. It's when the load is heavy that the best algorithms really shine. No, I don't work for Tony, and he's not paying me to say this. I wouldn't mind a beer if our paths cross, though, Tony. Charlie On 05-24-2010 6:15 PM, Charlie Noah wrote: Shawn

Re: [U2] pick item date/time modification

2010-06-21 Thread Charlie Noah
Hey Doug, Sure there is - switch back to Jbase ;-) . Sorry, knowing you'd worked with Jbase before, I couldn't resist. I can't tell you how many times that has come in handy for us. It is stored in the Jbase item header. Best Regards, Charlie Noah On 06-21-2010 1:51 PM, doug chanco wrote: I

Re: [U2] RetrieVe enhancements

2010-07-17 Thread Charlie Noah
the fancy add-on tools are nice, and I use a lot of them, but the basics are what feed the bulldog. Charlie Noah Inland Truck Parts Company PS: I was doing multivalue when Microdata was in its heyday. On 07-16-2010 2:42 PM, Symeon Breen wrote: This got me thinking - pardon the question, I

Re: [U2] AUTO: Haydon Bishop is out of the office. (returning26/07/2010)

2010-07-22 Thread Charlie Noah
and IT support. Haydon lives with his wife and son in Kent, having spent his early years in Ghana. In his spare time, he enjoys playing football, keeping fit and fishing. Apparently, he really exists. Why he would want to make a laughingstock of himself is unknown. Regards, Charlie Noah On 07-22

Re: [U2] mv.NET and U2.NET

2010-08-02 Thread Charlie Noah
stores, so that's considerable. I'm not really involved with it, thank God, but I'm seeing the fallout. I don't know anything about U2.NET. Regards, Charlie Noah Inland Truck Parts Company On 08-02-2010 4:32 PM, Bill Haskett wrote: Does anyone use mv.NET? Do you have any problems; stability

Re: [U2] mv.NET and U2.NET

2010-08-03 Thread Charlie Noah
discussion, and that's usually a good thing (at least I hope so). My apologies to anyone I have offended. If you just disagree with me, and weren't offended, that's OK. I'm a big boy and I can take it ;^). Best regards, Charlie Noah On 08-03-2010 7:51 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote: I hope the turn

Re: [U2] mv.NET and U2.NET

2010-08-09 Thread Charlie Noah
I want to let the group know that I am no longer with Inland Truck Parts. I am, however, still 100% committed to the Multivalue world, and I hope to be working again in MV very soon. Regards to all, Charlie Noah ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users

Re: [U2] mv.NET and U2.NET

2010-08-10 Thread Charlie Noah
don't even have them). However, I do have 12 years experience and knowledge to offer. Charlie Noah On 08-09-2010 2:45 PM, Charlie Noah wrote: I want to let the group know that I am no longer with Inland Truck Parts. I am, however, still 100% committed to the Multivalue world, and I hope

Re: [U2] Slow READ/WRITE with indexes

2010-09-11 Thread Charlie Noah
of the main file and into the history file before they were needed, all was OK. This required that I move the process toward the beginning of EOM, though. As always, your mileage may vary. Regards, Charlie Noah The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily

Re: [U2] EMailing from Universe

2010-09-12 Thread Charlie Noah
from, right? Of course, I could be all wet here. Thanks, Charlie Noah The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former, current or future employers, employees, clients, friends, enemies

Re: [U2] CREATE.TRIGGER - Permission denied

2010-10-18 Thread Charlie Noah
it? Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former, current or future employers, employees, clients, friends, enemies or anyone else who

Re: [U2] CREATE.TRIGGER - Permission denied

2010-10-18 Thread Charlie Noah
on most)? If so, I don't see a problem with that, since, depending on the file's permissions, a user probably shouldn't be able to do much of anything with the file unless he/she owns it or is in the same group. Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions

Re: [U2] CREATE.TRIGGER - Permission denied

2010-10-18 Thread Charlie Noah
Dave, If I had access to Unidata, I'd do HELP CREATE.TRIGGER, but I don't. I thought I could learn something for future reference. Sorry I wasted your bandwidth. Charlie Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie

Re: [U2] CREATE.TRIGGER - Permission denied

2010-10-19 Thread Charlie Noah
I used Jbase on AIX. Is Windows any different than Unix? Are there configuration settings that affect this other than file permissions? I don't have an immediate need, but this is all good knowledge to tuck away for the future. Thanks, Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn

Re: [U2] Uppercasing in SELECT

2010-12-03 Thread Charlie Noah
(@RECORD2, 'MCU') or UPCASE(@RECORD2) 003 004 Name Upcased 005 40T 006 S Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former, current or future

Re: [U2] Code 128 Soft Font

2010-12-06 Thread Charlie Noah
be controlled by the passed parameters. That way it can do either. If you have a version that passes STATUS.CODE instead of PASSED.PARAMS, let me know and I'll send you my latest version. It's dated 02-19-2010. Call me sometime - 816-461-8522. Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn

Re: [U2] Sparse array population in Pick

2010-12-11 Thread Charlie Noah
. don't handle them well. You can store them, though, then pull the data out and raise it. Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former

Re: [U2] Migration

2010-12-26 Thread Charlie Noah
doing thinking about work today? Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all, Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former, current

Re: [U2] ViaDuct problem

2010-12-27 Thread Charlie Noah
. It sounds like they are all but kaput. I suggest you bail ASAP. I know it will be a pain, but it appears inevitable. May I suggest you take a look at SecureCRT? It is a very robust, full-featured emulator, and the folks at VanDyke are extremely competent and helpful. Charlie Noah Charles W

Re: [U2] ViaDuct problem

2010-12-27 Thread Charlie Noah
Followup: I dug a little further and ViaDuct was bought by EDP in 1993. Here is a link to their site: http://www.edp.co.uk/solutions/viaduct.htm. You might contact them. Of course, they might be planning to scrap it, too. The SecureCRT recommendation still stands. Charlie Noah Charles W

Re: [U2] SETPRT vs. ESC

2011-01-10 Thread Charlie Noah
, and the printer will do as it's told, irrespective of the SETPTR settings. If things have changed since I've been on Universe, I'll be happy to be corrected. Regards, Charlie Noah Tiny Bear's Wild Bird Store Everything For The Backyard Bird Enthusiast, Except For The Birds sa

Re: [U2] Clear Message Initiative - Logging Errors to a U2 File

2011-02-09 Thread Charlie Noah
This is indeed an excellent article. Thanks, Susan! Error messages certainly get ignored, and I'm as guilty as rest. Charlie Noah On 02-09-2011 2:02 PM, Bill Brutzman wrote: Thanks to Susan Joslyn for the excellent article on the Clear Message Initiative. I just received my copy

Re: [U2] Frustrated with Rocket / Unidata 7.2

2011-02-17 Thread Charlie Noah
Totally OT, and I'm just musing here - Rocket, Raining Data then TigerLogic. Does anyone besides me see a trend here? Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views

Re: [U2] Frustrated with Rocket / Unidata 7.2

2011-02-17 Thread Charlie Noah
Subject: Re: [U2] Frustrated with Rocket / Unidata 7.2 Totally OT, and I'm just musing here - Rocket, Raining Data then TigerLogic. Does anyone besides me see a trend here? Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie

Re: [U2] Frustrated with Rocket / Unidata 7.2

2011-02-18 Thread Charlie Noah
Silly company names. Charlie On 02-18-2011 3:41 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote: Finally, since we're here: From Charlie Noah: Totally OT, and I'm just musing here - Rocket, Raining Data then TigerLogic. Does anyone besides me see a trend here? Uh, I don't get it. How are those related? What

Re: [U2] silly company names

2011-02-18 Thread Charlie Noah
I just Googled (oops) silly company names - there are tons of them out there. Sigh... Have a great weekend, Tony, Charlie On 02-18-2011 8:24 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote: From Charlie Noah: Totally OT, and I'm just musing here - Rocket, Raining Data then TigerLogic. Does anyone besides me see

Re: [U2] Scripps Networking Services - softwaresearch.com

2011-02-24 Thread Charlie Noah
Hi David, Larry is definitely one of the good guys, as is Matt Hart. Matt Hart PICK/U2 Recruiting Consulting Execu-Sys, Ltd (800)423-1964 x302 It's a tough time to be looking for a job. Good luck! Charlie Noah On 02-24-2011 5:08 PM, DavidJMurray (mvdbs.com) wrote: As a side but related

Re: [U2] Is this worth rewriting?

2011-03-02 Thread Charlie Noah
for a rewrite. Be sure to test, test, test. Just my 2 pennies, Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former, current or future

Re: [U2] Is this worth rewriting?

2011-03-04 Thread Charlie Noah
with it (at least in Microdata Reality). It made editing fun sometimes, but it worked. I also remember jockeying source around so that GOSUBs wouldn't frame fault. That often made a very noticeable difference in execution speed. Those were the days! ;-) Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn

Re: [U2] Is this worth rewriting?

2011-03-04 Thread Charlie Noah
also don't remember what version I was on (memory is the first thing to go). Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former, current

Re: [U2] U2UG Elections 2010 - Request For Comment - The I-Beam

2011-03-18 Thread Charlie Noah
. ;-) All that being said, I have read your posts often over the years, and find you to be both knowledgeable and honorable. Oops, should I not have said you there? big good old southern boy grin Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein

Re: [U2] Does anyone have an MV BASIC cheatsheet?

2011-03-24 Thread Charlie Noah
), please let me know. I would be happy to collaborate with someone else on this. Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former

Re: [U2] Trigger questions

2011-03-30 Thread Charlie Noah
Eating Disorders Anonymous??? ;-) Sorry, couldn't resist. Charlie Noah On 03-30-2011 11:20 AM, Steve Romanow wrote: This is what EDA is for isnt it? On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Kevin Kingprecisonl...@gmail.com wrote: Unidata or Universe

Re: [U2] Trigger questions

2011-03-30 Thread Charlie Noah
Make that 2!!! Charlie Noah On 03-30-2011 1:59 PM, Steve Romanow wrote: me, me, there is at least one! :) On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:32 PM,fft2...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 3/30/2011 11:03:07 AM Pacific Daylight Time, d...@chancofamily.com writes: There are 10 kinds of people

Re: [U2] Trigger questions

2011-03-31 Thread Charlie Noah
Come on, Doug, you know documentation is usually treated as an afterthought - way behind the software and usually incomplete. I'm glad you got your trigger working. Now, since I have no interest in learning Java, am I 1 or 10 of those people? ;^) Charlie On 03-31-2011 10:55 AM, Doug

Re: [U2] Game changer for U2 editors ([AD] added for Doug)

2011-04-05 Thread Charlie Noah
and Unidata, and would happily do it again. Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former, current or future employers, employees

Re: [U2] Game changer for U2 editors ([AD] added for Doug)

2011-04-06 Thread Charlie Noah
Hey Dubya (lol), I don't think you want me to put this baby on the group - it's almost 19,000 lines of code and 700KB. There are several support files as well.If you can come up with a place where it will be easy to put it, I'd be glad to. I've always shared my stuff, always will. I won't get

Re: [U2] Epicor and Eclipse Was Re: PICK Systems Administrator position

2011-04-07 Thread Charlie Noah
Mine has never done that so far - it's an Instamatic over in the corner gathering dust. ;^) Charlie On 04-07-2011 10:11 AM, fft2...@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 4/7/2011 12:17:50 AM Pacific Daylight Time, syme...@gmail.com writes: Now thats what you call targeting advertising -

Re: [U2] Has anyone ever heard of Kyle Stetson?

2011-04-08 Thread Charlie Noah
even mentioned the other day. My apologies if that rubbed anyone the wrong way. Best Regards, Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my

Re: [U2] uv v ud

2011-05-04 Thread Charlie Noah
Hi Bill, A little off-topic, but it seems that whenever you get 2 or more vendors involved in anything, they automatically start blaming the other, and nothing gets done. Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie

Re: [U2] Video Quirk

2011-05-31 Thread Charlie Noah
Hi John, Are you validating the existence of the address or just structure? I use a Thunderbird addon to verify address existence, but an automated verification would be icing on the cake. Thanks, Charlie Noah On 05-31-2011 10:18 AM, Israel, John R. wrote: I have written a program

Re: [U2] Unidata command stack (history)

2011-06-14 Thread Charlie Noah
has its own stack, but can borrow from the others as needed. Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net View Charlie Noah's profile on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlienoah The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily

Re: [U2] Interesting article (pro mobile web) vs mobile app -relating to previous discussion

2011-06-20 Thread Charlie Noah
with the fancy, shiny Ferraris. ;^) Regards, Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlienoah The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former, current

Re: [U2] uppercase

2011-06-25 Thread Charlie Noah
be multivalued, OCONVS would cover either situation. Regards, Charlie Noah On 06-23-2011 7:42 PM, Richard Lewis wrote: I understand matrix operations well enough to use them frequently, and in light of this discussion, the following question popped into my mind: Is there any difference between

Re: [U2] Simple FMT question

2011-07-08 Thread Charlie Noah
Hi Bob, Tryany of these: X = 1 FMT(X, 'MD%4') =0001 FMT(X, 'MR%4') =0001 FMT(X, 'R%4') =0001 X 'MD%4' =0001 X 'R%4'=0001 These all; work in Jbase, Universe flavor, YMMV. Regards, Charlie Noah On 07-08-2011 2:17 PM, Bob Woodward wrote: Hi Group, I don't know why

Re: [U2] Simple Masking of Password Input (Universe Basic)

2011-08-18 Thread Charlie Noah
(with a napping timed loop) for detecting multi-keystroke sequences such as function keys. It's been a number of years since I've worked with UV, so I don't remember whether it returns the actual keystroke or the ASCII value. Regards, Charlie Noah On 08-18-2011 8:56 AM, nschroth wrote: Thanks

Re: [U2] PC based UniBasic program editor for 64 bit OS

2011-09-01 Thread Charlie Noah
the salient portions of that post? It puts your reply in context, especially for someone who didn't read the original. Regards, Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlienoah The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do

Re: [U2] Lock Status

2011-09-08 Thread Charlie Noah
I think I worked for him once! ;^) Charlie Noah On 09-08-2011 11:11 AM, Colin Alfke wrote: Just don't do what one of my old bosses did (he was having trouble with SB+ holding locks) - he found one of our main processes and put in RELEASE. Our system relied heavily on pessimistic locking so

Re: [U2] Ardent programmers

2011-09-09 Thread Charlie Noah
it, $46.50 per hour. I may have gotten the amount wrong, but you get the idea. Memory is the first thing to go! Charlie Noah On 09-09-2011 11:28 AM, George Gallen wrote: I was thinking Spirit was the McDonnell Douglass Equipment - Was it also software? Nice little machine... I'm also guessing, it's

Re: [U2] Ardent programmers

2011-09-09 Thread Charlie Noah
anymore, too much head scratching and I don't have all that much hair left. Gotta love paragraphs - there's a lot of power there and they're much easier to understand and maintain. Charlie Noah On 09-09-2011 3:15 PM, Larry Hiscock wrote: Ah, but how many of them can still write PQ procs

Re: [U2] Ardent programmers

2011-09-09 Thread Charlie Noah
This explains a lot, my friend! ;^) On 09-09-2011 3:29 PM, Wjhonson wrote: I really don't know what you guys are complaining about. My first career position was maintaining and enhancing a system written entirely in RPL (the one from SMI, not that other one) Proc is like eating cake

Re: [U2] Reading Dictionary Items

2011-09-29 Thread Charlie Noah
I guess I sound sort of old school here (well, I /am /old), but has anyone considered record locking in this scenario? Regards, Charlie Noah On 09-29-2011 8:19 PM, Womack, Adrian wrote: I realise you already have an answer - but here's a one liner that would do the same thing, without

Re: [U2] FAST (File Analysis and Sizing Tool)

2011-10-07 Thread Charlie Noah
looking at here. Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlienoah The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former, current or future employers

Re: [U2] PHB was Signal to noise, was DataFlo

2011-10-11 Thread Charlie Noah
Pointy-haired boss from Dilbert. Surely you have worked for him (or her) before! ;^) Charlie Noah On 10-11-2011 1:46 PM, Wjhonson wrote: Therefore it's OBVIOUSLY the result of a PHB committee I googled for PHB as I didn't understand the reference http://www.google.com/search?q=phb

Re: [U2] [semi-ot] JE Sisk basic book on the eBay

2011-11-10 Thread Charlie Noah
Allen, IMHO... she's gonna kill you! ;-) Charlie Noah Tiny Bear's Wild Bird Store Everything For The Backyard Bird Enthusiast, Except For The Birds Info, Forum: http://www.TinyBearMarketing.com Store:http://Stores.TinyBearMarketing.com On 11-10-2011 8:40 AM, Allen E. Elwood

Re: [U2] Simplify, or why mathematicians make better programmers

2011-11-14 Thread Charlie Noah
Actually, it needs more than simplification - the result it returns is close, but not exactly right. I use COL = INT((79 - LEN(SITE.NAME)) / 2), which, if LEN(SITE.NAME) = 10, is 34. The exact position would be 34.5, but that half a column is tough to do (hence the INT). The original code

Re: [U2] [ot] A/P Dos 5.2.7 install on Windows 7?

2011-11-21 Thread Charlie Noah
A free D3 developer license? I recently tried to get one and the only thing TL would let me have was a 10 user developer copy for $500. I'm glad someone else paid for it. Charlie Noah On 11-21-2011 5:27 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote: George Gallen wrote: I just came across my old AP DOS diskettes

Re: [U2] Simple SB screen display question

2011-11-30 Thread Charlie Noah
Oops, replied to wrong message, sorry. Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlienoah The views and opinions expressed herein are my own (Charlie Noah) and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions or policies of any of my former

Re: [U2] Cloud Legal Question - and a request for Contact Info - IT Legal Issues

2011-11-30 Thread Charlie Noah
Hi John, It's just my opinion, but I just don't trust the cloud that much, no matter what the contract says. Regards, Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net View Charlie Noah's profile on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/in/charlienoah The views and opinions expressed

Re: [U2] End of Month date routine

2011-12-05 Thread Charlie Noah
I vote for the method (already posted) which will work every time on any MV system, any flavor, any emulation: find the first day of the next month and subtract 1. Messing around with adding 31, 32, etc. will bite you sooner or later (well, it worked at my last job). Regards, Charlie Noah

Re: [U2] SB print output question

2011-12-12 Thread Charlie Noah
At last! Someone who agrees with me. Comma delimited data has caused me a lot of problems over the years, especially when spreadsheets are involved. Tab delimited is far more rugged. Regards, Charlie Noah On 12-12-2011 2:25 PM, Wjhonson wrote: Nasty! Comma delimiting is going to cause

Re: [U2] Extract first and last name from free-form name

2011-12-13 Thread Charlie Noah
Forces RN Registered Nurse RPh Registered Pharmacist Sr Senior Snr Senior (British) DO Doctor of Osteopathy Perhaps others can add more to the list. Regards, Charlie Noah Tiny Bear's Wild Bird Store Everything For The Backyard Bird Enthusiast, Except For The Birds Info

Re: [U2] Extract first and last name from free-form name

2011-12-14 Thread Charlie Noah
of Machine Co it made MacHine Co. And don't even ask what happened to last names starting with O.:-) On 14/12/2011 01:02, Charlie Noah wrote: Great start, but here is a longer list, although still nowhere near complete: Prefixes Code Description 1st Lt First Lieutenant Adm

Re: [U2] Extract first and last name from free-form name

2011-12-14 Thread Charlie Noah
Armed Forces RN Registered Nurse RPh Registered Pharmacist Sr Senior Snr Senior (British) DO Doctor of Osteopathy Perhaps others can add more to the list. Regards, Charlie Noah Tiny Bear's Wild Bird Store Everything For The Backyard Bird Enthusiast, Except

Re: [U2] Graph DataBase

2011-12-17 Thread Charlie Noah
Hi Laura, I agree 100%. I think many have lost sight of the fact that customers don't care what their software runs on, or what it's written in, just whether it solves their business problems. Have a wonderful Christmas! Charlie Noah Charles W. Noah Associates cwn...@comcast.net http

Re: [U2] Extracting XML attributes

2012-01-12 Thread Charlie Noah
ideas at the moment. Regards, Charlie Noah On 01-12-2012 11:02 AM, Bobby Worley wrote: I suppose sequential reads is one approach I may need to consider, especially if I develop this as a tool for our end-users (doing the XML import). I was able to process the large file - It took some jumping

Re: [U2] DesignBais Website

2012-01-12 Thread Charlie Noah
Hi Harold, I just tried it with Firefox and was able to get the site up - perhaps they just had a momentary glitch. I couldn't find a phone number anywhere, though, just a support contact form. Regards, Charlie Noah On 01-12-2012 1:38 PM, Oaks, Harold wrote: I am interested in showing my

Re: [U2] Brilliant? or not?

2012-01-16 Thread Charlie Noah
) who has to work on it months or years later will have a much easier time of it. I've caught some grief over the years for spending a few timeslices in making my code clear, readable and self-documenting, but I still do it. Regards, Charlie Noah On 01-16-2012 12:50 PM, Tony Gravagno wrote: From

Re: [U2] Brilliant? or not?

2012-01-16 Thread Charlie Noah
of one MV to another. The most dreaded part was finding and fixing things that worked on the old system but not on the new. Universe is famous for being very forgiving and figuring out what you really meant. Jbase not so much. We spent a lot of time on issues like that. Regards, Charlie Noah

Re: [U2] Brilliant? or not?

2012-01-16 Thread Charlie Noah
...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah [cwn...@comcast.net] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2012 7:17 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Brilliant? or not? Hi George, Are there any implementations now that don't support X += 1? Not that I have a problem with X = X + 1 - works just fine and is very clear

Re: [U2] Brilliant? or not?

2012-01-17 Thread Charlie Noah
any good if others have to take days, even minutes, to figure out what you did. Jerry On 1/16/2012 6:17 PM, Charlie Noah wrote: Hi George, Are there any implementations now that don't support X += 1? Not that I have a problem with X = X + 1 - works just fine and is very clear. I usually try

Re: [U2] brillant or not

2012-01-17 Thread Charlie Noah
I can name that tune in... On 01-17-2012 6:49 PM, jay rappaport wrote: this discussion brings back memories from long long time ago, far far away when the shortest working program we could come up with as a challenge in school was input = output : f(end) one line of code that actually

Re: [U2] Passing by Value

2012-01-26 Thread Charlie Noah
Hi Mecki, I remember those 32K limits. I found a way to cheat a bit, though. I would split a source program into pieces and INCLUDE the subsequent pieces into the first. As long as the object didn't exceed 32K, it worked. Ah, those were the days! :-) Regards, Charlie Noah On 01-26-2012 2

Re: [U2] Passing by Value

2012-01-26 Thread Charlie Noah
I've had to do it before and it a royal PITA! On 01-26-2012 2:58 PM, Wjhonson wrote: Mecki you're not paying attention. You have an 8000 line program that uses a variable A You didn't write it. You need to find where that variable is assigned. You search for A ? That's not going to work.

Re: [U2] UniVerse Import XML data [not-secure]

2012-01-28 Thread Charlie Noah
Hi Jake, Are these subroutines you could share? Thanks, Charlie Noah On 01-27-2012 3:47 PM, Holt, Jake wrote: I just created a set of subroutines I copy and paste into anything that uses reads or writes XML. Most interfaces don't handle much beyond reading and extracting the element, value

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-07 Thread Charlie Noah
and we did still have the 32K limit. Fond memories. ;^) Regards, Charlie Noah Tiny Bear's Wild Bird Store Everything For The Backyard Bird Enthusiast, Except For The Birds Info, Forum: http://www.TinyBearMarketing.com Store:http://Stores.TinyBearMarketing.com Toll Free: 1-855

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-07 Thread Charlie Noah
Hi Dianne, You're telling your age here! ;^) Actually, it was EasyCalc, which was probably very similar to Compusheet. Charlie On 02-07-2012 9:30 AM, Dianne Ackerman wrote: Compusheet? I remember working with that! -Dianne On 2/7/2012 6:50 AM, Charlie Noah wrote: Hi Bob, I don't suppose

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-07 Thread Charlie Noah
remember EasyCalc, but Compusheet was on a Reality system. It was so much easier when we only had to know what was native in our own systems and not be concerned with a million different things to connect to in the outside world! -Dianne On 2/7/2012 10:45 AM, Charlie Noah wrote: Hi Dianne

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-08 Thread Charlie Noah
No, it was Stetson University in Deland. On 02-08-2012 4:47 PM, Keith Johnson [DATACOM] wrote: I'm curious; was the university in Florida Barry University? Someone I worked with years ago went there as a Pick programmer. The following code might be helpful subroutine

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-09 Thread Charlie Noah
in the description column and applying default formatting. That seems to remove the URL link and then everything is fine. Does anyone know of a better way to deal with this? I've asked my distributor to remove the links, but so far they have not. Thanks, Charlie Noah Tiny Bear's Wild Bird Store

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-09 Thread Charlie Noah
it, or have it skip a column as well. George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 9:46 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File While everyone

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-09 Thread Charlie Noah
of a csv - if you have a cell with a in it, it is 'escaped' as Anything that then reads a csv must unescape such characters. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah Sent: 09 February 2012 14:46

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-09 Thread Charlie Noah
that contained URLs and were quite long and didn't have any issues importing Them into excel as a .csv , at least not as breaking into two lines. George -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-09 Thread Charlie Noah
- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Charlie Noah Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:22 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Building an Excel File It's certainly possible, although I can't detect it. Do you know how I would see

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