Re: [U2] SpreadsheetML and Excel2013

2014-03-24 Thread Tony Gravagno
HTH Tony Gravagno, Nebula Research and Development  http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog     http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno      http://www.LinkedIn.com/in/TonyGravagno     Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! https://bitbucket.org/foss4mv  George Gallen wrote: Is anyone else having

Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions

2013-10-09 Thread Tony Gravagno
We're actually on the same page, Doug, thanks. What was on my mind is that while everyone knows they need to diversify, too many do not actually diversify. I know some very smart, highly expert BASIC people who have known for many years that they need to do something beyond BASIC, but they

Re: [U2] [OT] Interview Questions

2013-10-08 Thread Tony Gravagno
passively offer is assistance with hiring, interviewing, etc. Please feel free to contact me for assistance in creating job ads which attract the right people, and evaluating the people who respond.) Tony Gravagno     Nebula Research and Development    TG@ remove.pleaseNebula

Re: [U2] No mail

2013-09-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
I'm getting mails for this thread, nothing else seems to be going to the list at the moment except for the TU.TO.EXCEL discussion last week and the Colorado job. http://listserver.u2ug.org/pipermail/u2-users/2013-September/date.html Nothing like a scare about mail not getting through to stop

Re: [U2] Looking for work in Toronto area

2013-09-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2013/08/pickjobs1.html From: Michael Spencer If you know of any current offerings... ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Select from one file with save-list from another file

2013-08-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
/d3shell1.html Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog http://LinkedIn.com/in/TonyGravagno http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno http://PickWiki.com http://groups.google.com/group/MVDBMS http

Re: [U2] Select from one file with save-list from another file

2013-08-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
This line caught my eye: readlist var from 10 else then result = lower(var) else then ? I get it, but ... yuck. :) T From: Martin Phillips Spotted a bug - I knew this would turn out to be the wrong source code!!... ___ U2-Users mailing list

Re: [U2] [JOB] Las Colinas (Irving), TX

2013-08-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
The company may also wish to post to http://www.pickjobs.net/ which now has 12 other MV jobs listed. Best to ya, bud. T - From: Bruce Holt Luxury retailer has need of a UniVerse DBA Where: Irving, TX What UniVerse DBA (must be on site, no telecommute) When: Now! Why: I vacated the position

[U2] PickJobs.Net for MV Jobs/Contracts

2013-08-14 Thread Tony Gravagno
The website http://PickJobs.Net has been re-launched with a new look and tools for matching people to work. Read about it here: http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2013/08/pickjobs1.html Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com http

Re: [U2] I am looking for a CRM package on multi-value

2013-08-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
specifically about U2, and not a direct answer to your question, I've posted it as a blog: http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2013/08/compete1.html Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog http://LinkedIn.com

[U2] XAdmin wiki?

2013-08-05 Thread Tony Gravagno
dump everything you know into a free web page and you'll get lots of business but there is some value for people in efforts like this depending on how it's approached. Anyway - am I missing something that's already in progress? Thanks. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ

2013-08-05 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Al DeWitt I'm a Domain Admin so permissions is not an issue. I understand the sentiment there but we may not be aware of the permissions required for the operation in question, so it's tough to know if the right permissions have not been granted. My related experiences, dunno if this

Re: [U2] XAdmin wiki?

2013-08-05 Thread Tony Gravagno
Whoe dude, hang on. :) The answer to the question does this exist or what do you folks think isn't to do an install. There are already generic resources available. We don't need yet another wiki site with yet another login and markup language. I was hoping we could make use of one of the

Re: [U2] XML or JSON converter for Unibasic

2013-08-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
will know whether to use id or ordnum, or whether to use elements or attributes. All of that said, the nature of my business is to create solutions to problems like this. I'll be happy to do so for any company that associates value with such solutions. HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula Research

Re: [U2] Pick flavor in U2 personal edition

2013-08-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Eric Armstrong I downloaded the U2 personal edition to my pc, and it is working, but how do I get it to use the Pick flavor? If I care about the flavor I'll use UniAdmin to create accounts - or whatever they call that thing now that takes 10 minutes to start up on a system with no other

Re: [U2] What is true

2013-08-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
Fascinating stuff. :) I don't like the idea of spaces being numeric but when I get data from unknown sources I do tend to TRIM and test for NUM(x). With the following program: - Universe in Information flavor reports True on all tests. - Unidata only reports 3-8 as True - D3 does not consider any

Re: [U2] What is true

2013-08-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
Just adding a little more subtlety. Consider: X = Y = 3 In some languages this sets Y to 3 and then X to Y, so X=3. But in BASIC, as Brian said, we need to force the precedence on Y=3 before X=Y. In other contexts, parentheses force an equation. Consider: SUBROUTINE FOO( X,Y,Z ) and CALL FOO(

Re: [U2] What is true

2013-08-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
: Tony Gravagno Just adding a little more subtlety. Consider: X = Y = 3 In some languages this sets Y to 3 and then X to Y, so X=3. But in BASIC, as Brian said, we need to force the precedence on Y=3 before X=Y. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users

Re: [U2] Anti-fraud software

2013-08-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Copy File to SharePoint

2013-08-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
Has anyone figured out a way to take a file from UNIX and copy it into SharePoint? Google for unix to sharepoint returns good results. HTH T ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] accuterm WED issue

2013-08-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
AccuTerm adding a space into code might be an issue to report to supp...@asent.com. I think the segfault should be addressed with Rocket Support. HTH T From: Bertrand, Ron Interesting issue popped up a couple of days ago with Accuterms WED. We have a program calling a subroutine that wraps to

[U2] What services to MV DBMS VARs provide?

2013-08-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
Comments welcome on new blog: http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2013/08/var1.html ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] What is true

2013-07-31 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Keith Johnson Hi Tony, 'Twas a teensy bug under an unusual circumstance... Hey, wait a minute, you're the one who complained that no-one updated other people's code! You wouldn't be trying to yank Will's chain, would you? Indeed I do comment occasionally on the proportion of takers to

Re: [U2] What is true

2013-07-30 Thread Tony Gravagno
of a platform/flavor where this has not worked in the last decade? Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno http

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Charlie Noah 1. If POLREC6 is null, an empty value won't be inserted... 2. INSERT sometimes doesn't like delimited source 3. If POLREC6 has multivalues itself... Charlie, you present a valid discussion of a failure with the Insert statement, but that might not be the problem at

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Woodward, Bob If this occasional problem is consistently the same lines then just validate the insert afterwards... Dale, don't accept that solution. (Sorry Bob) Note, we're still not really Sure yet that this is a good definition of the problem, just a working theory... Overall, the

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
Bill, at Pick Systems we occasionally saw issues like this, where the object code would behave differently if specific statements (their opcodes/tokens) were broken across frame boundaries. Until DBMS patches become available, the problem could be avoided with some carefully-placed NULL

Re: [U2] LIST reports and Fields that Do reads

2013-07-20 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: David Wolverton In UniData we also make sure the file is opened to a COMMON variable. Makes a huge performance difference vs doing the OPEN on every call to the subroutine. YMMV From: Wjhonson I had forgotten that one! Wow, I thought that was SOP these days across all new MV

Re: [U2] SBClient Issue

2013-07-18 Thread Tony Gravagno
I dunno if this is the situation here, but a Google search for dde flush returns some hits that indicate you may need to flush the DDE buffer before exiting. HTH [related plug] : http://Nebula-RnD.com/products/xlite.htm From: Al DeWitt We have a custom report that was written using

Re: [U2] CentOS with Universe?

2013-07-17 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Dawn Wolthuis We have a VAR who would prefer to load Universe and their application on a supported platform, but we would prefer not to pay for RHEL 6. I searched the list and found a few tidbits, but does anyone have a good list of what changes might be required to successfully run

Re: [U2] Fwd: UML mapping tool for MV (UniVerse)

2013-07-17 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: George Gallen Maybe because of Pick's lack of organization enforcement - that is one of it's failings - it puts all the burden of documentation onto the programmers That's the essence of our being and arguably the strength of the platform: RDBMS sites have DBA's separate from the

Re: [U2] [U2} UniVerse, ODBC, 64-Bit, Windows7

2013-07-17 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Robert Houben \windows\syswow64 Rather than Windows On Windows I like to think Microsoft has built-in World Of Warcraft. With Microsoft typical logic this is where 32 bit versions of commands reside on x64. 64 bit ones are in system32. (I know Robert is aware of why MS did the WoW

Re: [U2] Fwd: UML mapping tool for MV (UniVerse)

2013-07-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
(Hey Don, I think you have your ReplyTo set, so replies to your posts to the list go to you direct.. Resending this to list...) I think Don is spot on - substitute time off and other consequences for finger breaking, though the Italian in me is quite partial to the finger solution. It's assumed

[U2] [ANN] FOSS4MV - Free Open Source Software for the MVDB world

2013-07-13 Thread Tony Gravagno
Posted for Kevin Powick === Fellow developers, I'm happy to announce a new resource for MVDB developers. FOSS4MV! FOSS4MV is a community for people that use or develop Free and Open Source Software for MVDB platforms, such as D3, OpenQM, jBASE, U2, Reality,

Re: [U2] uniobjects dll question

2013-07-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
DLL. The answer is no, you don't need that 110MB+ installer just for the one tiny DLL, and the licensing permits the DLL to be deployed with your solution. Regards, Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD sells mv.NET and other

Re: [U2] Mobile phones

2013-07-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Symeon Breen I have an application that is based in the UK, one of the things it does is allow entry of a phone number, I then determine if this is a mobile (cell phone) and send a text (easy in the uk as all mobiles begin with 07) We are embarking upon our first US client (well

Re: [U2] Mobile phones

2013-07-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
use the easiest and ideally lowest-cost remedies available. Sometimes end-users tell you how they want things to work. I'm telling you what works, which is usually what end-users Really want. Contact me for related solutions, including cloud-based services that just do what you want. HTH Tony

Re: [U2] Monitoring Program: Can This Be Done?

2013-06-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
to DllImport user32.dll for this. A search on the topic reveals many hits, including this helpful blog with a C# solution that you should be able to tweak for your purposes: http://bit.ly/1afWhF3 If you do Not want to do that on your own, you can email me to discuss development services. HTH Tony Gravagno

Re: [U2] [JOB] Work for Tiger Logic

2013-06-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Wjhonson As to the point of competing only, I would suggest that most if not all the people who read this list, also read others, and have various skills, not just U2 skills. Are you suggesting that a U2 person would not also have skills in say... D3 ? Yeah, I am suggesting that. But

Re: [U2] [JOB] Work for Tiger Logic

2013-06-09 Thread Tony Gravagno
Wow. I mean, no surprise, but ... you're nosey. :) So salary commensurate with requirements but you'd like people to guess at it anyway, even though we'll never know what it actually is. That's a spectacular waste of time. Having sat in one of the chairs for which they are advertising, and with

Re: [U2] Signature Capture and use

2013-06-06 Thread Tony Gravagno
Harold, I created a general-purpose solution for this a few years ago, documented on my blog. I'd be very happy to discuss it with you next week. (out of the office this week) http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/2009/09/signatures01.html Harold.Oaks wrote: I'm sure some of you are implementing

Re: [U2] Signature Capture and use

2013-06-06 Thread Tony Gravagno
Indeed. Typed manually on my phone. Here is the correct link. Thanks. http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/2009/09/signatures01.html Robert Frailey wrote: Link doesnt work http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/2009/09/signatures01.html - Original Message - From: Tony Gravagno Harold, I created

Re: [U2] Recognition for Rocket and Rocket's U2 in dual rankings today!

2013-06-04 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: John R. Israel I believe new management came in and decided to totally re-write everything is something else (SQL?) (huge snip) Here is an article related to the RR debacle. It was a $67Million mistake that other companies should learn from.

Re: [U2] [UV] UniObjects.Net vs Thrid-party Products

2013-05-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
products. YMMV Please feel free to contact me for more info. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD sells mv.NET worldwide and provides related development services http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog http://Twitter.com

Re: [U2] [UV] UniObjects.Net vs Thrid-party Products

2013-05-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
and interfaces. YMMV. HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD sells mv.NET worldwide and provides related development services http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno

Re: [U2] [UV] UniObjects.Net vs Thrid-party Products

2013-05-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD sells mv.NET worldwide and provides related development services http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno

Re: [U2] How to create WCF oData Service using Visual Studio 2012, Code First Entity Model and U2 Toolkit for .NET?

2013-05-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
That's some great info but I think the Stack Overflow people would object to their site being used as a blog/wiki by a commercial entity. I recommend putting nice articles like that on CodeProject.com, the company website, or PickWiki.com. T From: rkumar

Re: [U2] U2 demos and sample code now on Github

2013-05-21 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: George Gallen What might be helpful, would be a little help Blurb about what github is, and how to use it? You can download the e-book Git Succinctly, generously provided for free by Syncfusion: http://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks/git That page has a summary of the

Re: [U2] Illegal use of the file, select, cursor, BCI, Socket, HTTP, XML, SCTX , MQS, SOAP or database variable.

2013-05-08 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Wjhonson I'm assuming that a file you want to read into a Pick system, with embedded MM.MM dollars is coming from an outside source. I can't recall ever seeing 12.2 used for 12.20 outside of a Pick system. This is weird, I've seen a few discussions within the last week where people

Re: [U2] Illegal use of the file, select, cursor, BCI, Socket, HTTP, XML, SCTX , MQS, SOAP or database variable.

2013-05-08 Thread Tony Gravagno
There are a couple ways to prevent automatic numeric reformatting in Excel: 1) Any value preceded by a single quote is not treated as a number and is thus not reformatted. So a telephone number becomes '123-456-7890. 2) If the document is real Excel and not just CSV rendered in the Excel

Re: [U2] AES Encryption Of CC Numbers

2013-05-03 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Wjhonson en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AES_implementations Looks like no to me. Maybe someone could write one ? Yeah, and maybe someone could give the source away for free too, eh? Things like this shouldn't be built into a database. The database should call to well-maintained underlying

Re: [U2] FOSS

2013-05-03 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Wjhonson Tony, the link I posted has tons of free code. Just no MV BASIC implementation. So the tons of free code there has nothing to do with your suggestion that someone write something new. So giving it away for free is not anything new, although I know that attacking that idea is

Re: [U2] revision control with git/github

2013-04-30 Thread Tony Gravagno
We had a discussion about his recently in the MVDBMS group. http://groups.google.com/group/mvdbms From: Aaron Titus I am curious to know if anyone has implemented revision control with git or github for Unibasic programs, and system builder objects. If so, how did you do it?

Re: [U2] History of Prime Information

2013-04-30 Thread Tony Gravagno
No, SMI was always in Des Plaines, IL. Oak Brook was home to the McDonalds User Group (MUG) which managed accounting for hundreds (thousands?) of McDonalds hamburger franchises. That software was originally in RPL until it was ported to BASIC. (I had a hand in that.) I have a couple clients in

Re: [U2] Refactoring Tools

2013-04-22 Thread Tony Gravagno
Brian, on my freeware page I have a Merge/Split routine. I use it to merge Included code modules so that I can run, debug, and edit them as a unit, then split the modules off back into their components. From there, re-compiling all code allows the entire app to benefit from an individual effort.

Re: [U2] c#/uniobject/chinese/spanish characters

2013-04-05 Thread Tony Gravagno
think we were able to see everything great with AccuTerm in a character interface. It works in D3 too. I didn't try any others. U2 might support a better storage mechanism, so let's see what others say. But I'll be happy to provide the C# code that does the translation. Just email me. HTH Tony

Re: [U2] Social Networks for MV

2013-04-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
*From:* symeonb Marketing has always been about multiple ways to do predominantly the same thing you have a newspaper campaign, poster campaign, radio, tv, cpc ads, web banners, cold calling etc, these are just some more. From: Bill Haskett That isn't mostly true if you're a small

Re: [U2] Hibernate and UniVerse

2013-04-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
Dan, that's a great answer and the right answer and I don't mean to take anything away from it here. This is one of the biggest stumbling blocks for many of us in the MV world - getting mainstream tools to work as easily with our databases as it does with others. I spend a Lot of time doing

Re: [U2] Compressing PDFs

2013-03-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
In addition to 7-Zip (the software, not just the compression algorithm), consider WinRAR. They're both based on the same UnRAR decompression. They both support multiple platforms, multiple compression methods, multiple volumes, security, etc. I hope I don't start a war by suggesting that anyone

Re: [U2] Social Networks for MV

2013-03-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
to integrate with social media puts you in a different category from traditional Pick developers and application providers. HTH T [ad]I would be remiss if I didn't mention that I can integrate any U2 system with any social media service. Inquiries for related services are welcome.[/ad] Tony Gravagno

Re: [U2] SENDING BARCODE COMMANDS TO OKI PRINTER

2013-03-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Nancy Fisher Thanks. I'm beginning to think we're having printer commands stopped by our (accuterm) terminal interface. Accuterm!? Heck yeah. You didn't mention that part! :) Those ESCape sequences tell AccuTerm to do all sorts of cool stuff. You'd hope that it's smart enough to not

Re: [U2] SENDING BARCODE COMMANDS TO OKI PRINTER

2013-03-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
General response... This is why I love PrintWizard: PRINT \barcode src=1234567890 style=code39\ Done! Really. Look below. Now look above. Now think about which code you'd rather maintain, or pay someone else to maintain, every time you get a new printer. Jus' sayin'... I do not sell PrintWizard

Re: [U2] Date conversion..

2013-03-22 Thread Tony Gravagno
systems. Support and enhancements are free. http://Nebula-RnD.com/products/xlite.htm [/AD] HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com

Re: [U2] Social Networks for MV

2013-03-19 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Robert Houben And just to mess with your heads a bit more... http://smallbiztrends.com/2013/03/10-reasons-business-pinterest.html Oh dear, you seem to have provoked yet another blog. :) http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2013/03/socialmv3.html Summary: It's not just the individual

Re: [U2] Social Networks for MV

2013-03-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
, on its merits as a tool for providing and receiving specific kinds of information. Your (really really verbose, thankful, and apologetic) colleague :) Tony Gravagno, Nebula Research and Development USA 949-380-1668 Skype: gravagnot http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog http

[U2] Social Networks for MV

2013-03-15 Thread Tony Gravagno
I'm on a mini campaign to make more MV colleagues aware of the benefits of using Twitter and other social media. Everyone is welcome to visit my blog on the topic and to comment here or there. http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2013/03/socialmv1.html Tony Gravagno Nebula Research

Re: [U2] Replacements for Old SB?

2013-03-13 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Martin Phillips The Nucleus product from BinaryStar (www.binarystar.com/nucleus.html) can import SB projects. This is the recommended route for SB users migrating to QM and is probably equally applicable for users migrating to other platforms supported by Nucleus. Thank you my

Re: [U2] Replacements for Old SB?

2013-03-13 Thread Tony Gravagno
WJ: http://www.intersystems.com/press/2007/sc.html http://www.casoftware.co.uk/OSMOSiS.html -Original Message- From: Tony Gravagno I'm also aware of another product based in the UK that has excellent tools for migrating From SB, but I don't like where they migrate To. From: Colin

[U2] Replacements for Old SB?

2013-03-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
familiar looking to SB users but there are no good conversion tools to get to that product. I'm also aware of another product based in the UK that has excellent tools for migrating From SB, but I don't like where they migrate To. Thanks for your thoughts. T Tony Gravagno Nebula Research

Re: [U2] Replacements for Old SB?

2013-03-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
From Wjhonson Of all the jobs posted over the past several years, several have asked for SB+ experience, none have asked for any other product of that class. I'll respond to that here because it dove-tails with what I have below. You don't see ads, in-part, because the sites still running the

Re: [U2] Replacements for Old SB?

2013-03-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Wjhonson Not sure what you mean by saying that discontinuing support for SB would make people migrate to U2 ? System Builder and U2 have been married since the days of Ardent. Not all U2 sites use it, I would suggest no more than one third of all U2 sites have ever user System

Re: [U2] Replacements for Old SB?

2013-03-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Wjhonson Thanks I never knew that history. I've been fairly focused on [what is now called] mvEnterprise, followed by Universe, MvBase, and then back to Universe. So never got into the D3 stuff. So if SB is not supported on D3, I wonder if there is a competing product that runs

Re: [U2] ISO Date Format

2013-03-11 Thread Tony Gravagno
It's things like this that make me wish more MV platforms had user-defined processor codes. U2 excels in the versatility here. I can't use wonderful codes like this because most of my code needs to work across platforms. Wah. :'( T From: Charles Stevenson OCONV( 16507 , DYMD[4'',2'',2] )

Re: [U2] Unidata index and short-circuit evaluation

2013-03-08 Thread Tony Gravagno
Side comment: I understand what Wil is saying and I think he has a valid point. But I believe the value of the point is now insignificant. The tiny bit of contention that Will brings up here is about just how much disk access is done by any given process. Eliminate disk reads and the process

Re: [U2] VOC Pointer

2013-03-04 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Israel, John R. I need to copy PDFs from a Windows server into a UNIX dir (where UniData lives). Can I map a VOC pointer? Other thoughts? Running HPUX, UniData 7.2.1. I'm not as familiar with internals in UV/UD as with other platforms so this may not apply - and I'm eager to understand

Re: [U2] UV full screen editor

2013-02-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
I'll second the vote for the wED utility in AccuTerm. In the recent v7.1 a Lot of welcome enhancements were made which take this Far beyond similar editors - and free with the emulator aint a bad deal either. I'm also quite fond of mvToolbox (http://www.mvtoolbox.com/) It's a fabulous bit of

Re: [U2] UniData PE on Fedora 18

2013-02-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
In the bigger picture, Fedora is a hobbyist system and changes very rapidly. It's not meant to be used for production applications. You could get UV to work on it this week and it will break with a core update next week, or with some tiny dependency change or profile setting that's tough to trace.

Re: [U2] Dumping data to file from TCL

2013-02-20 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Mike McGuane http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html From: Phil Walker Hi Mike, I might be just being dumb, but how would curl help me here? I'm, guessing he posted to the wrong thread. That's the right answer to the question by Peter in the Consuming HTTPS service thread where he

Re: [U2] [AD] FREE pick date conversion android app [/AD]

2013-02-15 Thread Tony Gravagno
, and also make use of standard web service client code to call your UO interfaces. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno

Re: [U2] Quick Question on u2 toolkit for .net

2013-02-14 Thread Tony Gravagno
show you (or anyone else) when we're online... Best, T Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD sells mv.NET worldwide and provides related development services http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com

Re: [U2] : Evaluating DCOUNT

2013-02-11 Thread Tony Gravagno
not so much how it works, but knowing if it's possible to change behavior so that the runtime processes our code the way we want. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide

Re: [U2] Job on Dice

2013-02-11 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Wjhonson Who is this in Sacramento? I don't know of any pick companies in the Sacramento area Dude, really? Are you serious? Sacramento is a major metro area, state capitol city, and not only are you surprised that there are any Pick companies there, but you think it's worth our

Re: [U2] Record locks (Unidata 7.2)

2013-02-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
I think people understand exactly what you're saying, but disagree. Most applications don't use the more rigorous coding for having a Locked clause that provides additional information to the user, retries, etc. That's not wrong, it's just not necessary ... depending on the site. That said, when

Re: [U2] Searching for 'Bad' Dates

2013-01-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Peter Cheney How about a DICT item that performs a match like 2n'/'2n'/'2n on that field? Better to simply look for anything non-numeric. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Universe and ADO connections

2013-01-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
, and other common requirements. Please feel free to contact me for more information, including mentoring and other services to help with the conversion. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula RD sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue

Re: [U2] Web service

2013-01-17 Thread Tony Gravagno
Brian, excellent point, and I'm indeed using that feature in a small JavaScript wrapper for MV that I use. However, this is where you get into the devil in the details. A JSON query must be POST, even if it's really just a GET request, and once you do that there are some issues with IIS6 and

Re: [U2] Web service

2013-01-17 Thread Tony Gravagno
using c#. So would consuming it be any different if the web service was written in UV as opposed to one that is an asmx web service? From: Tony Gravagno I have a video which shows how to create and consume ASMX web services in just a few minutes: http://nebula-rnd.com/products/gallery.htm It's

Re: [U2] Web service

2013-01-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
I have a video which shows how to create and consume ASMX web services in just a few minutes: http://nebula-rnd.com/products/gallery.htm It's using mv.NET but that's irrelevant, as that is the part that gets executed after the web service is invoked. The call to the web service and the response

Re: [U2] How to create/consume WCF oData Service (RESTful Service) using U2 toolkit for .NET?

2013-01-15 Thread Tony Gravagno
Lame question followed by an awesome response by Rajan Kumar of Rocket Software! From: rajank rkumar-at-rs.com This is information for U2 Community. Please read: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14312892/how-to-create-consume-wcf -odata-service-restful-service-using-u2-toolkit-for

Re: [U2] U2 Database provider for .Net

2012-12-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Daniel McGrath It is part of U2 Toolkit for .NET 1.2, which is currently in beta (I believe has now invited you to the beta). To avoid the impression that this is a new product for a very old framework, the branding for that should probably be: ..NET U2 Toolkit v1.2 or U2 .NET Toolkit

Re: [U2] Secrets was Vinnie Smith

2012-12-20 Thread Tony Gravagno
When WJ talks about publishing a list of MV end-users I strongly object. But in this case I agree that a list of MV VARs and applications is of value. Our colleagues here are right about it not being important that MV is the database under a new application. However there are two audiences that

Re: [U2] Wally Terhune

2012-12-13 Thread Tony Gravagno
Breathing a sigh of relief. These days whenever I see someone's name in a subject and nothing else, I immediately brace myself for an obituary - consequences of a long career in a small and aging community... Good luck Wally. T From: Dan Goble Congratulations on your upcoming retirement.

Re: [U2] Creating XML nodes with a namespace prefix

2012-12-11 Thread Tony Gravagno
information in the event of your untimely STOP/END. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.com/TonyGravagno http://groups.google.com/group/mvdbms From: Gregor Scott Of course

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

2012-12-09 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Martin Braid I don't have time for this Give us all a break I completely agree. This is nonsense. And for historical accuracy and with some relevance to Pick, RPL did and still does support one or multi-line IF just like every other language on the planet. So please, done

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

2012-12-05 Thread Tony Gravagno
Or someone here can post to PickWiki.com which is there for Exactly this purpose. That way if someone wants to augment the info with better code or examples or documentation, you don't need to wait for some company to find the resources to do it for you. Or someone at Rocket can post to PickWiki

Re: [U2] BFORMAT

2012-11-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: dennis bartlett Does anybody have a working copy of BFORMAT... To answer the question: http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BFormat For printing: http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LFormat A Lot of other utilities here: http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BasicSource In

Re: [U2] converting D3 to UniData

2012-11-22 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Daniel Ruckel Can I convince someone in this group to share their experience/s converting D3 to UniData? As someone who uses both platforms I'd have to ask why anyone would want to do such a thing. I support clients and products on both platforms - there's no big difference. As someone

Re: [U2] Fwd: [MailServer Notification]Content Filtering Notification

2012-11-22 Thread Tony Gravagno
One of the annoying things about this list is that when you respond to a post it seems to go directly to the author as well as to the list. And people tend to Reply-All when they should just Reply. Because of this I sometimes get a direct response from the author as though I contacted him

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

2012-11-20 Thread Tony Gravagno
IMb includes POSTNET and PLANET. PrintWizard does POSTNET with a single line of code: PRINT barcode pointsize=20 src=:INFO: style=POSTNET I dunno if PW supports PLANET or IMb. Bob? But rather than full IMb, this end-user might be OK with just POSTNET, so the solution is readily available.

Re: [U2] Improving performance

2012-11-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
A join is a join in any DBMS. In SQL you'd do something like this: SELECT DONOR.id, PERSON.first_name, PERSON.last_name, DONOR.given_amt, DONOR.pledge_amt, PERSON.email FROM DONOR INNER JOIN PERSON ON DONOR.id=PERSON.id WHERE PERSON.spouse_last='Smith' ORDER BY

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