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 "" 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. POSTNET info: http://www.ni.com/white-paper/50

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 PERSON.last_n

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

2012-11-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
In the mainstream, it's generally understood that one must be in a constant learning cycle, or skills get outdated in a matter of 6-18 months. So .NET people need to understand the difference between WebForms and MVC, and adapt to generics, lambdas, and dynamic types. Java people need to adjust to

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

2012-11-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
Not sure where to jump in on this thread so I'll start at the top. First, like Doug Averch, Charlie Noah, Brian Leach, and others here, I actually do have experience with all of the technologies AND applications defined. So once again your commentary has over-reached your limited understanding of

Re: [U2] UPLOAD not DOWNLOAD

2012-10-27 Thread Tony Gravagno
Well, what you say below is exactly opposite of what I described. Normally I would encourage anyone else to re-read what I wrote and cite specific text which leads to the conclusions below - in this case... nah. The data source never needs to know anything about the target - that would be silly.

Re: [U2] UPLOAD not DOWNLOAD

2012-10-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Tony Gravagno >> ...To me, the U2 box is just one end of the equation, >> it's not the middle tier. The U2 side of things uses just grunt code or >> dict items that any of us here can write. > From: Wjhonson > The nature Tony of code 8sharing8 between u

Re: [U2] UPLOAD not DOWNLOAD

2012-10-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
larify that you want something free. There are commercial offerings from FusionWare, BlueFinity, and others. 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.googl

Re: [U2] Consuming web services

2012-10-03 Thread Tony Gravagno
I do the same as Ben but with .NET: -- Local U2 <> .NET client Remote server Pick is a database server, not a communications protocol end-point. We simply should not be doing direct comms from this platform anymore, given the huge number of mainstream options. This is coming from someone who has

Re: [U2] [Windows]

2012-09-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
I'll preface this by saying I dealt with this issue a Long time ago so my memory on the matter has faded and my notes here could be invalid... I don't believe that you can trust that this Device Manager setting will be present. Many client PCs are from Dell or other build-to-order companies that i

Re: [U2] [Windows]

2012-09-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
I think the real concern that Wil brings up is about what happens to these connections in the DBMS at both the socket level and at the port/session/license level. > From: Bob Rasmussen > I can confirm that having a PC go to sleep can disrupt a telnet session. > > My experience, and I'm going WAY

Re: [U2] UniData, LOCATE and strings with mixture of negative and positive numbes

2012-09-24 Thread Tony Gravagno
I missed this part of the discussion in the other thread. I mentioned just within the last few weeks here that I prefer to use the function-form of Locate because it is standard across "most" MV platforms. The noted exception is with this very specific case. The exact same issue you cite below wa

Re: [U2] Barcode PCL Commands

2012-09-21 Thread Tony Gravagno
I don't sell PrintWizard but I highly recommend it for tasks like this. See a BASIC demo I wrote with full source: http://Nebula-RnD.com/products/PW/demo2.htm If you know anything about HTML you can use PrintWizard - and that includes doing barcodes. For an example of Code 128 done "the hard way"

Re: [U2] [Windows]

2012-09-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
I recommend that you use the script that I provided which uses the same base table from which the Task Manager draws its data. If that's not working then you have a permissions issue. Fix that problem. Run as administrator or check other permissions issues. But the fact that the script does not ret

Re: [U2] [Windows]

2012-09-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
What's the real goal here? To get the hostname of any random telnet client? You have the information you need to do that. If nothing else you can get the IP address and someone can manually chase down who's connecting in. Block rogue connections at the firewall. I mean, at this point you're going

Re: [U2] [Windows]

2012-09-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Wjhonson > The cscript below echos to the screen the list of PIDs only. > Nothing else. So it doesn't get any closer to solving the problem. Now you're facing a permissions issue or some other system-specific detail. I wouldn't have posted without testing and on my system it works. You ne

Re: [U2] Etymology of "Q-Pointer"

2012-09-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
I do the exact opposite for exactly the same reasons. :) I use the Locate function rather than statement because I find it easier to read and 99% consistent across all platforms. T > From: John Lorentz > I fully believe that I've never used the function ever since they introduced > it as an alte

Re: [U2] [Windows]

2012-09-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Wjhonson > How can you tell what device, pc, user, ip, etc is *trying* to telnet before > they have successfully logged into Universe ? That's the core problem > layed out more clearly perhaps. The answer to this is in my detailed post. Since the users aren't logged-in, LISTU won't show t

Re: [U2] [Windows]

2012-09-06 Thread Tony Gravagno
Here are a number of ways to link a telnet client into UV back to its respective hostname. There's some redundancy here as not all commands work everywhere. OK, so as I understand the challenge, you got the inbound IP using System(42) (which of course should reveal the answer to life, the universe

Re: [U2] [Windows]

2012-09-06 Thread Tony Gravagno
Sitting back and just watching it happen this time. Have you guys realized yet that he's doing 'that thing' again? T ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] U2 Bug reporting / list monitoring

2012-08-31 Thread Tony Gravagno
Three topics here... > From: Wjhonson 1) > Not support though. Bugs. > In my book, they are opposite ends of the spectrum. > And a company that ignores bug reports because they don't come > through "approved" channels is heading in the direction of Netscape and > Liquid Audio. Questions and an

Re: [U2] Scrub Fix OutCome

2012-08-31 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Bill Brutzman > Yesterday... I just released my third HTML app (runs on both mobile + > desktop) that uses ColdFusion to grab UniVerse data to hydrate and > launch pdf forms in the user's browser. The apps/forms... [1] Purchase > Order [2] Invoice [3] Part Inspection... were whipped up wi

Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?

2012-08-30 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: David L. Wasylenko > (I don't miss the 150/300bps modems) > (( yes I am that old )) And old enough to forget that it was 110baud. haha ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-u

Re: [U2] [ud] Sub-second delay?

2012-08-29 Thread Tony Gravagno
The documentation is interesting for at least two reasons. 1) I have an R83 manual in my hands, v5 1990 that has the exact same text as the Microdata text below, except with the words REALITY and Pick interchanged, and one other subtlety: REALITY: "RQM statement causes a one-second sleep, terminat

Re: [U2] PI/UV: Decompiler

2012-08-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
iven the size of our businesses and the investment it takes to bring a product to market, so protection of the IP is very important. Thoughts? Thanks. T Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula R&D sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worl

Re: [U2] CPU Charge Units

2012-08-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Wjhonson > I have discovered a way to determine, from inside Universe, what > Windows thinks is the "amount of CPU time" that each one of all running > process has consumed. Now I just need to work out a better way to tie > this into the other internal details of the process so it can act

Re: [U2] Variable Interpolation

2012-08-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: jjuser > Does UniBasic have a way to do variable interpolation (without writing to > a file, compiling it as a program, and calling it)? Do you mean something like this? VAL = 0 CALL @"SUB FOO(X,Y);Y=X+1;RETURN"( 3, VAL ) CRT VAL ; * 4 That would be Awesome! I don't believe any of the

Re: [U2] CPU Charge Units

2012-08-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
When we were doing service bureaus in the 80's the Charge Units was one of many metrics used for billing (in addition pages printed, user count, CPU speed, disk consumed, network traffic, and others. But as technology moved forward the value of Charge Units became increasingly unreliable, depending

Re: [U2] Job ad, was: Welcome to the "U2-Users" mailing list

2012-08-21 Thread Tony Gravagno
Anyone posting job ads or seeking a position should also consider the resources described here: http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Employment The Community page has a list of forums and user groups. The Pick User Group at LinkedIn, and the MVDBMS Google group both have a good number of U2 peop

Re: [U2] CSV to Array

2012-08-15 Thread Tony Gravagno
Anyone getting paid to play guessing games? Dude, get to the point. If this were presented as "I need help" I think many people would jump to help. But presenting this as a Mensa challenge is just wasting people's time. T Wjhonson wrote: > Rex Gozar uploaded this code, and someone (perhaps him) c

Re: [U2] [JOB] Opportunity for non-MV techie to learn MV in Atlanta, GA

2012-08-14 Thread Tony Gravagno
And as discussed many times, the way to create a new generation is clear and employed by every new product on the market. We can do it if only there were real desire. But this industry simply refuses to learn or follow the examples of the mainstream. More importantly, everyone including the DBMS ve

Re: [U2] Mocking UniSession in .NET

2012-08-13 Thread Tony Gravagno
> Brian Leach > would it be better to construct a higher level wrapper for your business > functions and mock those? the UO libraries are quite low level: its a bit > like mocking ado.net rather than your db calls. > From: Ravindranath > Thanks for the reply. I am trying to do higher level wrappe

Re: [U2] Mocking UniSession in .NET

2012-08-13 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Ravindranath > Does anybody know how to mock UniSession via .NET? or is there a > interface for UniSession like IUniSession so it could be easily mockable? If you don't get an answer here that you can use, look into JustMock from Telerik. I haven't used it against UniSession yet (I genera

Re: [U2] Passing dimensioned arrays

2012-07-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
The behaviour has to be platform-specific, perhaps even version specific, and I wouldn't trust code that re-dims in a subroutine. With that, I won't guess what it does today because it could be different on a lot of systems here, and different in the next release. I don't mean to evade the challeng

Re: [U2] trimming a list (a test of your ability)

2012-07-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
zealous posturing if that's the case. For my next trick, I'll invent fire. Oh it has? Never mind. How about water? Really? Dangit! Fusion? There's even Fusionware? Is nothing left uninvented or reinvented in this industry? :) T > From: Tony Gravagno > Sort of OT: > My

Re: [U2] trimming a list (a test of your ability)

2012-07-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
Sort of OT: My NebulaXLite product builds XML files that can get into tens of megabytes. Concatenation with either method described below can cause this process to take 1/2 hour or longer. I developed a technique that reduces build time of these large blocks down to seconds, and no, this isn't a me

Re: [U2] How to Upload data from my pc to my account

2012-07-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
Flames? How about "Use AccuTerm". A better definition of the problem will return better suggestions. Is this a one-shot or a regular thing? How many users? What kind of data? T > From: David L. Wasylenko > Ohhh my; Here come the flames... > From: SUDHEER RAMISETTI > Hi:Could you plese

Re: [U2] UniVerse LIST statement question [not-secure]

2012-07-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
LIST CALLS '123456' EMP.NAME EMP.LOCATION DATE.CALL GE "2012-06-01" AND LE "2012-06-30" DURATION TOLL ? > From mark.hennessey > > I need to do a UniVerse LIST statement that would only populate a > column if the contents met certain criteria. > > For example, suppose we have a file wi

Re: [U2] Reasons to continue with Software vendor support

2012-07-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
This discussion prompted me to complete another blog/article in my series on Marketing in the Pick Industry: http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2012/07/vars1.html I believe the services provided by resellers can be directly related to perceptions of our industry as a whole. Tony Gravagno Nebula

Re: [U2] Problem running script from crontab

2012-06-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
Every time I see something like this it's a permissions issue. > From: Charles_Shaffer > > This script runs fine from command line... > But when it is run by the cron it doesn't seem to run ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org ht

Re: [U2] ACH Functionality in ManFact

2012-06-22 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: John Varney > I've been tasked with writing a bolt on module to give ManFact the > ability to utilize ACH processing. Has anyone done this already? If so, > any words of wisdom? Having read the other comments here, I find my approach would still be the same as for everything else. You're

Re: [U2] Runoff ?

2012-06-19 Thread Tony Gravagno
The source is in VB6. ConnectingFlight is offered as a service rather than as a product because I've found every single site has some weird nuance that the code doesn't catch. Some sites have moved their documents through multiple products, each leaving some sort of residue which needs to be accomm

Re: [U2] Runoff ?

2012-06-19 Thread Tony Gravagno
e else sees the tools they expect to see in a modern environment. That's not AE/ED, RUNOFF, or CSV files masquerading as Excel. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula R&D sells mv.NET and other Pick/MultiValue products worldwide, and provides relate

Re: [U2] Runoff ?

2012-06-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Wjhonson > Don't be so sure. We don't even have a full screen editor built into Universe Neither does any other database. Get over it. Pick people are spoiled by such things. Edit your items with a real text editor. Use AccuTerm wED or launch any freeware you choose from TCL. Ray Wu

Re: [U2] Runoff ?

2012-06-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
Why is this in the U2 forum? To my knowledge Runoff isn't supported in U2. Once again your assertion is incorrect. Word _can_ be coded to do pretty much anything, including reading/writing from MV, and importing images and structured text from various sources. I know, I do it all the time. If some

Re: [U2] Regarding : Usage of the SEL.CMD

2012-06-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
When I suggested you check ads in the MidEast or Asia, I completely forgot about Africa. (Shame on me) I probably get more enquiries from the African continent about T24 connectivity (with mv.NET) than anywhere else. And I'm talking Rwanda, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and all over the map. T24 is also b

Re: [U2] the Pick industry

2012-06-11 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: dennis bartlett > The biggest problem we have experienced as Pickies has been that no- > one has ever heard of it Good comments, Dennis. My response turned into a blog: http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2012/06/mvmarketing1.html T ___ U2-

Re: [U2] Regarding : Usage of the SEL.CMD

2012-06-11 Thread Tony Gravagno
Forum postings by T24 developers (Globus/Temenos) seem to indicate that they have no idea that they're using a DBMS in the Pick family. I think banks tend to rely on Temenos for all support. How many amateur fingers do you really want in _your_ bank's software? This is a good (??) example of the ma

Re: [U2] Why did this compile??

2012-06-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
When I was working at Pick Systems I found that anything can be passed into format masks from BASIC, OCONV, or an F-correlative. If it doesn't blow up some code deep down in the parser then it's just ignored. I think the theory is that if someone knows enough to get down that far into the bowels of

Re: [U2] Learning about file sizing

2012-06-05 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Dave Laansma > Can anyone point me to a good document that will give me guidelines > for 'proper' file sizing of dynamic files in particular? There was an excellent article series on file sizing in Spectrum Magazine. I found part 6 in the Jan/Feb-2005 issue by searching http://intl-spectr

Re: [U2] Regarding: programming Techinques

2012-06-04 Thread Tony Gravagno
on about where some small code items are which aren't going to be too big or overwhelming. And ask them if there is any source code for games on the system. ;) HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com Nebula R&D sells mv.NET and other Pick/Mul

Re: [U2] Excel Worksheets

2012-06-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Jim Koca > I am sending a CSV file to excel, and would like to divide it into > separate worksheets. Is there a special value I can insert in the file > which would cause the following data to create a separate work sheet [AD] As soon as your needs go beyond basic columns and rows I sugg

Re: [U2] Trim trailing attributes off records

2012-05-15 Thread Tony Gravagno
I know functional code was posted last week so I'm amazed that this thread is still alive. I'll just add that in D3 we can do this: matread dimrec from fv,key else null dynrec = dimrec write dynrec on fv,key Perhaps non-intuitively, the assignment of a dimensioned array to a non-dimensioned vari

Re: [U2] Show processing to user via icons

2012-05-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Holt, Jake > ModalPopups are, in my opinion, the cleanest solution since they lock > the page from interaction by default... Modal popups will lock the user on the popup and if the Ajax connection doesn't come back (locked READU, dead connection, license blocking, etc) you're going to hav

Re: [U2] READU vs READ and CRT

2012-05-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
That's been the default mechanism for years in ASP.NET Ajax (just another free framework). Your progress panel is set to only go visible if an ajax request doesn't return in x seconds. Each request needs to be considered for tuning. The response to a simple data validation is expected to only take

Re: [U2] READU vs READ

2012-04-30 Thread Tony Gravagno
(Saw other responses come in as I was writing this - oh well, this might help someone else...) > From: Dave Laansma > If I don't HAVE TO lock a record before modifying it writing it back, will a > program run significantly faster if I just WRITE it back without locking it > first? I'm updating ab

Re: [U2] ASCII ^010^013 Removal (LF CR)

2012-04-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
I don't recall about which platforms this applies, but CONVERT is used to change a single character. CHANGE or SWAP (depending on platform) changes multiple chars: CONVERT SINGLE1 TO SINGLE2 IN VAR VAR = CHANGE(VAR,MULTI1,MULTI2) VAR = SWAP(VAR,MULTI1,MULTI2) > From: Wjhonson > Doesn't > CO

[U2] Coding style with lists (was BDT...)

2012-04-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
Please forgive a digression on coding style. > From: Wjhonson > By the way, the point of selecting out to a list and then readnexting > from that list, for those who are virgins, is that two selects in one > program, are almost always prevented from stepping on each other's > toes. Are you talki

Re: [U2] COMMON Size MisMatch

2012-04-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Wjhonson > Look inside those routines, and determine that they are agnostic about > you coming from LOGIN vs LOGTO Perhaps I'm the sole person in > history to have coded things that are wise about the distinction (Not following this thread, sorry if I'm being redundant here) Will, there h

Re: [U2] Detecting idle time in INPUT statement. (Nick Gettino)

2012-04-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
Looks like your copyright protection filter prevented you from posting code but your netiquette protection software missed the huge unnecessary quote. ;) BTW, if you do publish that code, its copyright is no longer valid. You can't publish helpful code to a forum with a copyright that tells people

Re: [U2] Record lock

2012-03-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
Not paying much attention to this thread so perhaps I missed something, but... That's not a "problem", every application has code that does rapid lock/write/release operations on the same record. George's scenario was common and perfectly reasonable. T (And dude, you really need to do something a

Re: [U2] New U2 BDT

2012-03-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
d you don't need to sell for 29.99 or 799.99 per unit. This is Apple's core model for various product lines, and Microsoft is going this direction with Windows8 as well. The second generation of the extensibility model is upon us and Pick people are still not applying the model to our indu

Re: [U2] Hello

2012-03-05 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Dave Laansma > How do I get a list of all files that are currently OPEN so I know whether > I need to open a given file again? While our other colleagues are responding to the specific question, and I'm eager to see that discussion continue, I'll suggest that the real answer to the specifi

Re: [U2] Where can I get UniAdmin?

2012-03-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
(avoid conflicts with other MV products). Change my Universe service to use the new telnet port for debugging. Now set Windows Firewall to allow the new ports. Connect in from outside. Yay! I hope that helps someone (whether U2Tools developers or fellow users). Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Dev

Re: [U2] Where can I get UniAdmin?

2012-03-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
Dan, that's really great news - thanks! Unless you or someone else sees an issue with this, here is my planned approach: 1) Install the last release of UniAdmin. 2) Install the latest release of XAdmin on the same system. 3) Try XAdmin, revert to UniAdmin as required. (Without keeping both open

Re: [U2] Where can I get UniAdmin?

2012-03-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Bill Haskett > Yea, well when I installed the xAdmin product it didn't do most things > UniAdmin did. So I had to keep the old UniAdmin in order to manage > U2 servers. Not sure what xAdmin does now but it was pretty useless > back in June of 2011. :-( I did see XAdmin in DBTools but

[U2] Where can I get UniAdmin?

2012-03-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
I am re-installing Universe and Unidata from scratch with the very latest 'everything'. The latest (?) Universe installation guide (October 2010 for v11.1) says "The UniVerse Clients CD-ROM contains the following client software for use with Windows servers." The most recent (?) client and DBTool

Re: [U2] AS2 Integration

2012-03-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
http://nebula-rnd.com/blog/tech/mv/2009/08/mv-to-anything.html > From: Phil Walker > Just a quick question to the group to see if anyone has done any > integration between AS2 and Universe and how they have done this? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-User

Re: [U2] UPGRADING - 10.1.18 to 11.1.1

2012-02-27 Thread Tony Gravagno
I don't remember much of what I wrote here, but I hope something helps: http://Nebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/mv/2011/04/u2upgrade2.html ( OMG! No munge? Yeah whatever... :) ) > From: Chris Austin > I'm just about to do an upgrade. The current server is Windows 2003 > Server running UniVerse 10.1.18

Re: [U2] mvToolbox--digression about why anyone would wanttelnet-based tools

2012-02-20 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Wjhonson > WED is not an inplace full screen editor. It's merely > a hyped up Notepad. Not the same thing. You cannot > use WED to say "Oh by the way, go grab the cross > reference files and show me every OTHER program that > also reads the customer file." You could however do > that

Re: [U2] mvToolbox--digression about why anyone would wanttelnet-based tools - dictionaries

2012-02-18 Thread Tony Gravagno
Can we have a fresh thread for that? > Quick pop quiz. How do people build and maintain dictionaries? ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] mvToolbox--digression about why anyone would want telnet-based tools

2012-02-17 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Bill Haskett > Just to let people know, mvNET offer telnet as one of > the connection methods (I use uodotnet) but it's fine > for external developers for our ..NET application. > Also, if I'm not mistaken, Fusionware uses telnet as > their underlying connection method. (mv.NET also s

Re: [U2] mvToolbox

2012-02-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Wol > Tony Gravagno wrote: > > To Doug, you imply that GUI=productive which is as invalid as > > telnet=unproductive. > Actually, I think it's pretty much a given that gui=UNproductive. Well, in all fairness, I don't put that extreme postion on the medium e

Re: [U2] Universe's DOS command

2012-02-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Ed Clark > Or you can have a listening program running on your > desktop, and the server can connect to it and tell it > to open desktop windows. When people ask for a way to invoke PC applications from a browser based on interaction with an MV app, that's exactly how I do it. There ca

Re: [U2] mvToolbox

2012-02-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Doug Averch > The goal of any tool is to make us, programmers, more productive. > > Wjhonson wrote: > > There's no market for a tool that runs on a telnet system. To Wil, I suggest in agreement with Doug that productivity is unrelated to the connection mechanism. mvToolbox is indeed a p

Re: [U2] mvToolbox

2012-02-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
Wil, you're asking a question from the product website or doc. I just wanted to make people aware of the offering here, in response to a specific request. At this point I suggest anyone with interest take questions to the vendor. > From: Wjhonson > "As you type compiler messages from the real comp

Re: [U2] mvToolbox

2012-02-15 Thread Tony Gravagno
o cleaning up his website and trimming down his documentation. In the mean time, it costs people nothing (for a year?) for anyone here to just endure a little grief to get their hands on this software, and the benefits could be huge. Questions can be directed here: http://groups.google.com/group

Re: [U2] universe compiler -xref output

2012-02-15 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Buss, Troy > I'd like to eliminate assigned but unused variables, > so I'm looking for output that has single assignments > only. I asked about this a couple days ago in the mvToolbox forum, and was told that product should be able to help with this. That's no surprise as it has a mill

Re: [U2] [mildly ot] - EDI and drop shipments

2012-02-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
s for them - and ask them if they have ideas about how they have already done this or how they see it happening. That partnership toward a common goal (again, very people-oriented) will really help to make this technical initiative work for everyone. HTH T Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Deve

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-09 Thread Tony Gravagno
/format. If nothing else, at some point I'll link from PickWiki back to this thread, though it's nice if people don't need to wade through long threads to find solid content. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com remove.pleaseNebula-RnD

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
Wil, you didn't say 'I', so you're not saying it 'again'. I responded to what you said. You're doing that troll thing again. So again, I say - Just stop it man. > From: Wjhonson > And again I never said csv was Excel. > > From: Wjhonson > > No one is saying that CSV is Excel _

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
Wil, while the OP asked about reading Excel on an iPhone, the title of the thread is "Building an Excel File". That prompted suggestions for how to create "Excel", including "use CSV". Yes, all spreadsheet clients including Excel will open a CSV file. But that led to my assertion that "CSV is no

Re: [U2] Including Code - A Best Practice?

2012-02-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Kevin King > It's funny, our subroutines are oddly similar to how > Microsoft implemented DLL wrecknology for Windows, but > we've never had the kind of hell that Windows > programmers experience. Funny how that works... :) I completely disagree. Have you never been working on code in

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Bob Rasmussen > It would be conceivable, though not necessarily > profitable, to have an Excel add-in that would pull > data out of Pick via a network-based object call. Conceivable? How about Done. Phil Gerber has referred people to NebulaXChange as the replacement for CrowFlite. http:/

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File

2012-02-06 Thread Tony Gravagno
Not responding to any particular quote here, just the CSV topic in general. Respected colleagues, CSV is not Excel. If you have an end-user that asks for Excel and you give them a CSV you're just perpetuating the myth that Pick is a dinosaur. They will gladly spend tens of thousands of dollars to

Re: [U2] Building an Excel File [AD]

2012-02-06 Thread Tony Gravagno
his allows even more complex documents to be created - yes, without user intervention. NebulaXPlus is now in beta. Thanks for you time. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit http://PickWiki.com! Contribute! http://Twitter.

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

2012-01-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Symeon Breen > The guys at u2 did NOT write their own xml parser, > they use the libraries from the OS, so on udt on > linux, 7.1 used libxml, 7.2 uses libxerces - just the > same as php, or java, or the linux xml tools, like > xmlwf. So if it fails in u2 it will fail in php. I had no

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

2012-01-27 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: John Thompson > And yes, you are right about me being un-familiar with > all of the details of xml :) But... nothing to do > about that except put my head down and work with > itusers As with us all, John. Nothing intended by the comment except acknowledgement of one of your prior statem

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

2012-01-27 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: David Jordan > Hi Tony > I partly agree with you. But I should be able to > process xml data in UniVerse far simpler than at the > moment. I should not have to read xml in one > application, convert it to a dynamic string and then > send it to universe/unidata, I should just be able to

Re: [U2] Passing by Value

2012-01-27 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Bill Haskett > G-man: > You having a bad day? :-) No bro, I just don't like seeing good people being abused ... again. I'm just glad I'm not the only one who sees it. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2u

Re: [U2] Passing by Value

2012-01-27 Thread Tony Gravagno
I recognized Will's troll from his first post and was tempted to comment but thought that would just stir up more OT discussion. And yet it continues anyway. Don't you guys recognize the pattern here? He'll keep changing the scenario, adding road blocks and confusing arguments that make proposals

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

2012-01-27 Thread Tony Gravagno
of XML, and when the U2 tools don't seem to address one of those details I'm guessing you're considering the document to be non-standard rather than the U2 tools. Again, in all fairness to the U2 team, I'm guessing this is a documentation issue or some lack of understanding alo

Re: [U2] A Thursday Quandry...

2012-01-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
Dan hit it on the head. I have such a pre-processor (somewhere?) written several times over in angst when working on various systems. David - I'll try to find it today and send it over, then will probably post to my website. T > From: Daniel McGrath > The way I've seen this handled before was b

Re: [U2] Passing by Value

2012-01-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
CALL SUBNAME( IVAR+0 , AVAR:"" ) > From: Kebbon Irwin > I think it is possible to pass a > parameter by value instead of by reference. ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

[U2] Reposting help request for Unidata site

2012-01-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
Reposted as a favor, by permission, from the Pick Users Group at LinkedIn: === I'm looking for someone who has a lot of this combination: Window Server, HyperV, Red Hat Linux on the HyperV, UniData on the Red Hat. One of my customers has a problem

Re: [U2] Brilliant? or not?

2012-01-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Charles_Shaffer > Aside from it not being readable, compacting C code > like that can reduce portability. Different compilers > may evaluate complex, compacted code differently. Same thing has actually happened with BASIC code that's ported from one platform to another. Rule of thumb:

Re: [U2] DesignBais Website

2012-01-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
I was just there last night to check out the v6 enhancements. The site is all run using DesignBais itself - very clean and lightning fast even overseas. If you're going to do a demo, don't bother installing unless you want to demo the designer. Just run the samples off the live site. BTW, if you

[U2] Proposed MVDBMS forum to replace CDP

2011-12-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
source, of value to everyone in this industry, I hope that we can re-invigorate the new MVDBMS Google Group to be a similar asset for everyone. Happy and Safe New Year to all! Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com remove.pleaseNebula-RnD.com/blog Visit Pi

Re: [U2] Is there any ORM's for Universe. NHibernate, Entity Framework etc

2011-12-22 Thread Tony Gravagno
David, I've spent a lot of time on that very topic and have come to the conclusion that for many applications I really don't want to use a complex ORM middle tier. Sometimes the absolute best thing to do is to pass requests from the UI, back into BASIC as soon as possible, foregoing client and mid

Re: [U2] Is there any ORM's for Universe. NHibernate, Entity Framework etc

2011-12-21 Thread Tony Gravagno
Robert, sincere apologies, and thanks for the correction. To avoid misunderstandings, there is a huge difference between a DataSet and a strongly typed business object. They are sometimes used alternatively but there are times when one or the other is absolutely required. If ORM was as simple as

[U2] Is there any ORM's for Universe. NHibernate, Entity Framework etc

2011-12-21 Thread Tony Gravagno
f my efforts in this area toward helping to make Solution Objects the kind of solution that we all want in this kind of tool. There really isn't anything else like this in this market, so not only is mv.NET Solution Objects the only option, but it also happens to be a very good one. HTH Ton

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