[U2] UODOTNET.DLL

2006-07-11 Thread Tony Gravagno
Please forgive a quick post being made without appropriate prior investigation. I'm hoping someone will have a quick answer for what might otherwise take several hours of research. I'm told there are two versions of UODOTNET.dll: 2.1.0.7137 and 2.1.0.7149 Where can we get the new build? We may

RE: [U2] UV - tech support

2006-07-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
Many unrelated comments. I think Chuck is right. Influencing change must go through the right business channels and must be presented in a business-professional context. Unfortunately I've been making the same speech to D3 people for years now and they would rather dump RD and come to IBM than

RE: [U2] UV - tech support

2006-07-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
Gerry wrote: Hi Tony , I will probably regret this post - I never seem to get past one or 2 before the jumping down of throats begins ;-) I pretty much regret all of mine these days, and I'm sure others do too. :^D While I agree with what you say as far as support is concerned ( and I

RE: [U2][UV]Universe NT on Microsoft Virtual Server

2006-06-30 Thread Tony Gravagno
deeper expertise, but I think these are reasonable guidelines. Regards to Daniel Dries if he is still at InfoData. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http

[U2] Blog updates. Answers to connectivity questions [ad]

2006-06-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
to the blog when appropriate. Please feel free to post comments to the blog or to me via email. Thanks for your time, as always. Tony Gravagno, Nebula Research and Development TG@ always.remove.this.partNebula-RnD.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit

[U2] [UV] PID or Port from @USERNO

2006-06-21 Thread Tony Gravagno
This is being posted for an associate of ours, I don't have access to the systems in question. The problem is that on Universe 9.4, @USERNO returned a PIB, an R83-style port number unique to the DBMS, like Unidata @UDTNO. In newer UV releases this returns the PID ( like getpid() ), the process ID

RE: [U2] mv.NET Seminar on June 23 at the Saddle Brook Marriott [ad]

2006-06-20 Thread Tony Gravagno
Chuck wrote: Tony, I'll be there. Any chance you're making the long trip? I wish bro, but there are a couple other opportunities this year including regional Spectrum shows and some client work in your area. Rudy Cooper wrote: Any plans for the west coast ? No live sessions until

[U2] mv.NET Seminar on June 23 at the Saddle Brook Marriott [ad]

2006-06-19 Thread Tony Gravagno
Posted for Bob Markowitz at BlueFinity International: There has been lots of buzz on this forum about .NET. Here is an opportunity to learn about it at no cost. BlueFinity will be presenting a Friday June 23rd morning seminar in Saddle Brook, New Jersey to discuss and demonstrate mv.NET, their

RE: [U2] ODBC question [ad]

2006-06-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
browser address area.) HTH Tony Gravagno, Nebula RD TG@ again,removethispartNebula-RnD.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] U2 on Rails?

2006-06-05 Thread Tony Gravagno
Wendy Smoak wrote: Is anyone else interested in Rails? http://www.rubyonrails.org/ For me, it's fun to play with, but I figured the chances of it ever talking to UniData were slim to none. Then again... http://alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/db2onrails Maybe we will see U2 on Rails one day. :)

RE: [U2] [UV] How can this be non-numeric?

2006-06-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
Stevenson, Charles wrote: Program TIP.LIST: Line 242, Nonnumeric data when numeric required. Zero used. It's got to be ANS that is nonnumeric, but how? Here's the code: 239: IF (ANS# AND ANS # B) THEN 240: IF ANS MATCHES '0N' THEN 241: IF ANS0 THEN

RE: [U2] Universe Java Web Client

2006-06-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
this anti-spam textNebula-RnD.com/blog/tech/2006/06/mvc.html Of course you're welcome to have a look around the rest of the blog, register if you want, I'll let you know when I post new entries if you like, otherwise you won't hear from me. Tony Gravagno Nebula RD TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com --- u2

RE: [U2] Universe Java Web Client

2006-06-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
Bill Brutzman wrote: We here need a new religion for GUI apps. Right now we are green-screen with mostly Dynamic Connect and a little wIntegrate. Because our back-end is HP-Ux, and .Net apps are not supported on a Unix drive, a Microsoft solution is not viable. Have a gander at a blog

RE: [U2] interface into Unidata [ad]

2006-06-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
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RE: [U2] interface into Unidata [ad]

2006-06-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
Brad Davis wrote: Tony - We're trying to capture updates to the Unidata tables, as they occur on the system. Is this what we're talking about? It sounds like you're talking about database triggers. I don't know off-hand if Unidata supports triggers but if it does then the answer is yes.

RE: [U2] Duplicates

2006-05-30 Thread Tony Gravagno
Bob Woodward wrote: I'm seeing duplicates again. sigh Or I'm not medicated enough... I'm getting dupes too. I'm getting dupes too. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] U2 - MITS versus Informer

2006-05-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
-to-head in an either/or decision process. Tony Gravagno Nebula RD TG@ i.dont.like.spamspamspamNebula-RnD.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] Accessing UV Data from Microsoft SSIS in SQL Server 2005 [ad]

2006-05-19 Thread Tony Gravagno
mv.NET to accomplish your goals. If you're already familiar with .NET development then just assume there is an elegant way to get data to/from U2, then do some research on connections between SSIS and external environments using SOA and managed components. Tony Gravagno TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com

RE: [U2] Accessing UV Data from Microsoft SSIS in SQL Server 2005 [ad]

2006-05-19 Thread Tony Gravagno
queries (broken up into logical chunks) can be used and there are tools that come with the software to build queries, etc. More SQL-like queries will be supported in the near future for people who are unfamiliar with MV and are charged with extraction of data from an MV environment. HTH. Tony

RE: [U2] UV - Globalization studies, relative to U2

2006-05-18 Thread Tony Gravagno
Baker Hughes wrote: Has anyone seen a study, a white paper, or anything which discusses Globalization in the MV arena? We need to provide currency translation in the near future, and eventually content localization. If someone has some links to read, or documents it would give us a leg

RE: [U2] xls to text

2006-05-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
ExcelExport_README.txt: http://removethisNebula-RnD.com/freeware/ HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] xls to text [off-topic] anti-spam address munging

2006-05-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
It's much more practical than protecting against packet sniffers. Anyone can subscribe to the list and get addresses and anyone can go to the archive (with a program) and harvest addresses from prior postings going back a few years. It happens all the time and I do my best to avoid it. Sorry for

RE: [U2] Importing Data from Universe into Excel

2006-04-22 Thread Tony Gravagno
Dave Taylor wrote: One of my customers is interested in extracting data from Universe into Excel by himself without having to have a program written for each import to Excel. If he learns the names of the files and their dictionaries, and which attributes are multi-valued, or even

RE: [U2] MUMPS aka M-Technology?

2006-04-17 Thread Tony Gravagno
Allen Egerton wrote: Is there a relationship between MUMPS and PICK? Charles Barouch wrote: Allen, Yes. MUMPS became Cache and Cache (with the help of Jim Idle others) is becoming Pick compatable. Allen, if you mean are there common roots between MUMPS and Pick? the answer is no.

RE: [U2] Spectrum conference

2006-03-19 Thread Tony Gravagno
Dave Bryant wrote: In what I am sure was a simple oversight, Ross forgot to mention that DesignBais was also signed up to take part in the database challenge. As a matter of interest, how many contestants were there last year? Last year I believe there were 13 contestants representing 8 teams

RE: [U2] Different Conversion

2006-03-18 Thread Tony Gravagno
Mark Johnson wrote: With all of this talk of UD to D3, I'm interested in converting a client from Microdata *to* D3. Helpful/pertinent info e-mailed off-list. This is a U2 forum, Reality and D3 have their own forums. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe

RE: [U2] Excel from Unidata

2006-03-17 Thread Tony Gravagno
From: Dave Tabor I'd like to be able to create an excel file from a Unidata program to be used for download on a website, without any user intervention. Dan Fitzgerald wrote: I did this once by then tweaking an excel file to look right, and then ftp'ing it back to the server as a template,

[U2] RE: Google _is_ email

2006-03-17 Thread Tony Gravagno
Bob Little wrote: I guess I do prefer the email list setup as opposed to a Google-type thingy. If this question ever does come to some kind of vote, people need to understand what they're voting for and against. Google mail works exactly the same as what we have here, just a different address

RE: [U2] Changes to the List

2006-03-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
Jerry Banker wrote: Don't go there. I personally hate, is hate too strong a word, having to go to a group site to find out what is going on. From: Mike Preece What do people think of the idea of moving this list to a google group instead? Jerry and others, Google Groups sends e-mail as

RE: [U2] Changes to the List

2006-03-15 Thread Tony Gravagno
We've now been living with the change to the lists for nearly a month. I'd like to invite opinions on the change. Are we all happy now that we are used to it? Personally, I think Larry made a good call, but this is a community, so I want me be sure that everyone gets heard. [snip] Thanks

RE: [U2] Changes to the List

2006-03-15 Thread Tony Gravagno
Bruce Nichol wrote: How many now know to Reply All if they want a moment of fame on the list? And this is another point. An announcement was made to the list, there was a hullabaloo for a few days and then it blew over. How many people missed that thread and don't know the secret handshake to

RE: [U2] [UD] password

2006-03-11 Thread Tony Gravagno
Bill Haskett wrote: Is it possible to either extract the Windows password, in order to compare with an entered string, or to verify the entered string with the Windows password? A client's application we're converting requires the user to reenter their password to run some sensitive

RE: [U2] SOAP

2006-02-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
Gerry wrote: It does appear that manually coding the SOAP message is the only way to go which, in my opinion, gives is no advantage over the way we were doing this via CallHttp. I had some material already written about alternatives for this sort of thing so I dumped them together and posted a

RE: [U2] - Java - AJAX

2006-02-27 Thread Tony Gravagno
I share Glen's frustration with the increasing dependency on browsers and increasing complexity being built into them. I'll add a decreasing appreciation for the effort required to support this technology. This results in many people expecting that just because everyone has a browser on their

RE: [U2] Changes to mail list configurations

2006-02-27 Thread Tony Gravagno
This is breaking all kinds of things including filters, remailers, and maybe threading for some reader programs. It's going to create confusion when people mail to one another off-list. And for anyone who isn't familiar with this completely unique solution people are going to think they're

RE: [U2] Changes to mail list configurations

2006-02-27 Thread Tony Gravagno
This is breaking all kinds of things including filters, remailers, and maybe threading for some reader programs. It's going to create confusion when people mail to one another off-list. And for anyone who isn't familiar with this completely unique solution people are going to think they're

RE: [U2] Changes to mail list configurations

2006-02-27 Thread Tony Gravagno
Logan, David wrote: Sounds like the sky is falling. This is by no means a unique situation, this works well on numerous other lists (that I subscribe to) so why not this one? Surely the subscribers are not that silly. I know the average age of the Universe/Unidata afficionado is slowly

[U2] Update to Outlook Subject Cleanup Macros

2006-02-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
to completely replace the old code and replace your toolbar button if you already have this installed. I'll be happy to answer any questions via e-mail and we can repost here if the info is of interest to a broader audience. Regards, Tony Gravagno, Nebula Research and Development TG@ sorry

RE: [U2] Java Script

2006-02-24 Thread Tony Gravagno
This isn't an MV question. MV Platform and terminal emulation are irrelevant. http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=print+pdf+(commandline+OR+command+li ne) Tons of free code, HowTo's, buyware, and open source for PDFs. Google is your friend. T Mark Johnson wrote: A client of mine has a folder

[U2] RE: list of undocumented features?

2006-02-08 Thread Tony Gravagno
Andrew Lakeland wrote: If anyone has list of the undocumented system values it would a very interesting read. Well now Andy, if someone publishes a list then it won't be very undocumented anymore now will it? What good are undocumented features if people go and tell everyone what they are?

RE: [U2] RE: list of undocumented features?

2006-02-08 Thread Tony Gravagno
john reid wrote: It appears that not much very exciting happens after feeding SYSTEM 1 thru 9 or 10 thousand. Some System params return the state/effect of some operation that was previously performed. Like SYSTEM(11) is only useful after a SELECT. Just printing the values of SYSTEM(N) could

RE: [U2] Unidata SQL Joins

2006-02-07 Thread Tony Gravagno
short, IBM was unable to help. They have not had any issues since switching to mv.NET.YMMV HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] Calendar and Contacts (UV)

2006-02-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
Tom Dodds wrote: Does anyone know of a good set of tools for UniVerse that has integrated Contacts and Calendaring capabilities. We would prefer the tools to be written in Basic with no need for outside routines. We are running UV 10.1.17 on AIX 5.2.3 Tom, you'll have to describe for us

RE: [U2] Fingerprint scanner interface in U2

2006-01-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
This topic was recently discussed in CDP: http://tinyurl.com/bxdnc (CC to Mac) Tony Gravagno, Nebula RD TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com REPOSTED FOR NONMEMBER: Mac Bhyat [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm trying to build fingerprint scanning into Universe. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users

RE: [U2] Unidata on XP Lap Top

2006-01-18 Thread Tony Gravagno
Brian Leach wrote: VB 2005 Express Edition is free - not evaluation. It is also very powerful (all the .Net 2 features) and frankly a lot nicer to use than the full blown Visual Studio 2005 which is ludicrously machine consumptive. I now use it in preference and haven't found anything I

RE: [U2] Unidata on XP Lap Top

2006-01-17 Thread Tony Gravagno
George Smith wrote: I would like to propose to upper management that we replace a single user laptop program using a non-pick database with a Unidata single user system. We would use C# and the uniObjects for the gui front end. This would be on about 400 laptops if successful. Anyone doing

RE: [U2] making a .csv file into an .xls file?

2006-01-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
The convention for specifying alpha data vs numeric data is actually to precede the data with a single quote, not to surround it with double quotes. As far as tab delimited data that includes tabs, since this isn't supported in cells anyway it's not a problem. Tony Gravagno, Nebula RD TG

RE: [U2] making a .csv file into an .xls file?

2006-01-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
/01/06 -0800, you wrote: The convention for specifying alpha data vs numeric data is actually to precede the data with a single quote, not to surround it with double quotes. As far as tab delimited data that includes tabs, since this isn't supported in cells anyway it's not a problem. Tony

RE: [U2] CSVs' (Different Question)

2006-01-16 Thread Tony Gravagno
Mark Johnson wrote: Where do I quote these? A,B,C,12345,000123 The info I posted about single quotes in my last post wasn't helpful in this context. Let me try this way: A,B,12,34,Hi World Excel doesn't need quotes unless you're doing something special, which explains why the A and B values

RE: [U2] PROC Question

2006-01-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
Bob Woodward wrote: What I want to be able to do is: IF A = 5 [USER.PL BASIC.PGM1];[USER.PL BASIC.PGM2];G 10 In RPL the subvalue mark is used to accomplish this: IF A = 5 [USER.PL BASIC.PGM1]\[USER.PL BASIC.PGM2]\G 10 Use ctrl-\ for the subvalue mark. I'm positive that we can do GS 10\GS

RE: [U2] UNiOLEDB [ad+info]

2006-01-09 Thread Tony Gravagno
See this posting I recently made to CDP on the topic. Then look down two posts to where I provide more detail about the issues and solution. http://tinyurl.com/av4jj When OLEDB does work, I can't tell you how it works with ADO.NET - I'm curious to hear more about this as well. mv.NET uses a

RE: [U2] CallHTTP

2006-01-09 Thread Tony Gravagno
If CallHTTP doesn't do what you need, look into cURL. It's open source and free, well supported, very stable, very popular, and it's quite capable of doing HTTP post w/wo SSL as well as many other tricks. HTH T Wendy Smoak wsmoak-at-gmail.com |U2UG| wrote: On 1/9/06, Peter Veenhof [EMAIL

RE: [U2] [UV] Callcenter screen pop

2006-01-09 Thread Tony Gravagno
One of my client/colleagues (I believe he'll see this and comment) has collection agencies as his clients. They have check scanners to scan checks which are sent in by debtors. The BASIC application that he maintains uses AccuTerm to call a program that I wrote which drives the scanner and

RE: [U2] Launching DOS executables from Universe 10.0.10 on Win 2000

2006-01-08 Thread Tony Gravagno
Dave Taylor wrote: So (Leroy), the START command should be added to the DOS documentation as an option to prevent the screen contents from displaying on the UV screen. Thank you again, Ray, for sharing the START command with us. Dave, I've used the commands cmd and start to control many

RE: [U2] Calendar

2006-01-06 Thread Tony Gravagno
there which allow people to maintain calendars. With some investigation into the datastore for these applications I'm sure someone can work out a U2 interface into them. I'll be happy to do such research and development on a contracting basis. HTH Tony Gravagno Nebula RD TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com

[U2] RE: cross-process COMMON

2005-12-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
David Wolverton wrote: (I really wish we had cross-process COMMON for things like this!) Amen! That's something that was ripe for development sometime in the 80's but not a single one of the MV providers added the feature. So many applications are possible (not least of which would be

RE: [U2] Running Uniobjects from a web server

2005-12-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
Serguei wrote: When I tried using uniObjects DLL I found that there are problems creating several database connections from the same application (this is what one normally has to do). This problem did not exist in Java version of uniObjects (and we currently use Java). The connection from

RE: [U2] UniVerse server socket issues

2005-12-14 Thread Tony Gravagno
client know what port to connect to? Good luck. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] UniVerse server socket issues

2005-12-14 Thread Tony Gravagno
DAVID WOLVERTON wrote: I suspect she is writing a CLIENT socket service that RUNS on the server -- one where I'm opening a socket to get data from another service - and as any process could be doing the same, I'd just want the next available socket, please So I think the request is valid

RE: [U2] LOGTO question...

2005-12-14 Thread Tony Gravagno
I'd like to piggyback on this question with another related: What is the exact set of rules for determining whether an account can/should be referenced via a full path vs just the name? It seems it's not as simple as just having an entry in UV.ACCOUNT or UD.ACCOUNT. Is this flavor-dependent?

RE: [U2] Emails into AIX

2005-12-08 Thread Tony Gravagno
. NebulaMail is $250 per server, with volume discounts for VARs who implement to multiple sites. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ removethisNebula-RnD .com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] UD Terminal Emulator using UniObjects

2005-12-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
out the real technical solution may be to use Z. Here we go again with the notion of banging screws with hammers... :) If you do need something special written up and don't have the resources to do it internally, I'll be happy to consider such a project. HTH Tony Gravagno, Nebula Research

RE: [U2] [UV] - word Document

2005-12-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
-oriented products in a server context. Having a lot of experience in this area, I also discourage that sort of usage, and that's one of the reasons I no longer offer NebulaDoc as it was originally designed. HTH, Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ removethisNebula-RnD .com

RE: [U2] Credit Card Handlers [ad response]

2005-11-15 Thread Tony Gravagno
Please feel free to take a look at our webpage for NebulaPay and contact me for more information. NebulaPay has not yet been ported to U2 but we'd greatly appreciate an opportunity to do the port. http:// removethisNebula-RnD.com/products/financial.htm Thanks. Tony Gravagno Nebula RD TG

[U2] [UV] Universe on SCO

2005-11-11 Thread Tony Gravagno
I'll piggyback on Larry's inquiry here. We have been contacted by a site with an old release of Universe on SCO (no indication of release ID's yet). They are having two issues. The system randomly shuts down with error Unexpected trap in kernel mode, accompanied by a hex dump, and/or Panic

RE: [U2] UniVerse - file importation [ad]

2005-11-10 Thread Tony Gravagno
Barry Rogen wrote: Does anybody know of a good way (or program/utility) to import (translate as it were) dBase IV data onto a UniVerse system. We have a shipping package that uses dBase IV and I would love to be able to utlize that data from UniVerse. As always, any help is

RE: [U2] [UV] PRINT @(-23)

2005-11-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
I had a site years ago where something like this was happening. The server was in one office and remote end-users were connected over a multiplexor. Various @ sequences were interpreted by the MUX rather than being forwarded to the end-user. For one particular sequence, a simple @(13) to

RE: [U2] PDF Efficiency

2005-10-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
The efficiency of the PDF has a lot to do with the tools used to generate them, which you didn't mention here (htmldoc, ps2pdf, etc). Some commandline tools for PDF include some form of compression argument. There are tools available to optimize PDF in *nix, rather than going through the export

RE: [U2] [UV] SQL Server Data Access

2005-10-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
Sunny Matharoo wrote: I know this may have discussed before but has anyone developed a VB interface between SQL Server and UV. This would be pretty easy to do with mv.NET using ADO.NET as the common medium. What's on your mind, maybe I can whip something up. The solution would depend a lot

RE: [U2] RE: [U2C] U2UG.org Problem

2005-10-28 Thread Tony Gravagno
Results wrote: - Chuck If I Only I Could Hack Sites While Knowing Nothing, And With No Regard For Others, I Could Be Cool Like Them Barouch Hey bro, ya gotta admit these kiddies were quick enough to execute the exploit before you professionals could update the server against it. Let this

RE: [U2][UV] UPS rate calculator

2005-10-26 Thread Tony Gravagno
but I'm sure I can. :) Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] [OT] BREAKING NEWS

2005-10-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
Rich Taylor is back in the office. For all my fans that breathlessly awaited the next automatic response...Sorry folks, forgot to set the exceptions list We don't need you anymore Richard, you've been replaced. We're now being comforted by frequent OoO notices from Russ DeWitt. 8^\ I'm

RE: [U2] [UV][OT]Embed command in CSV file? [ad]

2005-10-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
applications, and intend to continue development with Office 12 and the MS Office System. Nebula RD is growing and now has a team of U2 professionals who can do this sort of work. So if you need to get info to or from any Office product, feel free to ask about what's possible. Tony Gravagno Nebula

RE: [U2] [UV][OT]Embed command in CSV file?

2005-10-23 Thread Tony Gravagno
Mark Johnson wrote: Tony: What's the fastest path for someone who's been providing the CSV's for the last 10 years and wants to deliver something more complete. I don't want to spend a lot of my client's money on packages. When I originally offered the NebulAnalysis package it was only

RE: [U2] pdf2html

2005-10-20 Thread Tony Gravagno
Ron White wrote: Does anyone know of a good utility for converting pdf documents to html? I have tried some that I found in the CDP archive but the conversion was not true to the original pdf. I need a converter that I can run from a basic program. No experience with these but...:

RE: [U2] [AD] connection from UniBasic to a SQL database

2005-10-18 Thread Tony Gravagno
and end-users. Please feel free to contact me for more info - it can't hurt to chat. Thanks for your time. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ removethisNebula-RnD.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] Out of office

2005-10-14 Thread Tony Gravagno
I filter out of the office messages, and this entire thread was pulled from my U2 folder and dumped in a don't bother area. I'm SO happy I did bother. BTW, Disclaimers of confidentiality in a public forum area about as annoying as out of office notices. ;) T Andy Moore wrote: DISCLAIMER:

RE: [U2] developer annoyances (getting OT)

2005-10-06 Thread Tony Gravagno
Serguei wrote: There are two types of developers who really annoy me Serguei - I'm happy to say I don't represent either of the two types you mentioned, and neither do our contractors. The issue I documented (having to pay a contractor who re-wrote a lot of code without prior agreement)

RE: [U2] more serious notes on GOTO

2005-10-05 Thread Tony Gravagno
Richard Taylor wrote: Serguei wrote: From my experience working with a team of different developers this is the worst possible and a very selfish scenario a developer might choose to follow. While I agree with you in principle, reality sets in real quick. Sometimes you simply don't have

RE: [U2] PICK 101

2005-10-05 Thread Tony Gravagno
I completely forgot that Raining Data offers U2 training. Why? You ask? (I hope I have my facts straight.) They inherited the education materials from JES and Associates when Jon Sisk joined managemet back in the PickAxe days. The situation with Jon fell apart for various reasons but they held

RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Tony Gravagno
It's very easy to create/parse XML with .NET technologies. If you have a schema then you can read an XML document, convert it into an ADO.NET dataset in one statement, then you can push it into U2 very easily after that with mv.NET or PDP.NET. UO.NET would take more work because it does not have

RE: [U2] more serious notes on GOTO

2005-10-04 Thread Tony Gravagno
Larry Hiscock wrote: If the use of GOTO is not proper in UniBasic, why does the language include the verb? - Because all BASICs derive from Dartmouth BASIC so it was in there from the start and a lot of old code depends on it. - Because all BASIC programmers know about it and _may_ want to use

RE: [U2] Parsing XML

2005-10-04 Thread Tony Gravagno
Stuart wrote: Tony, I'm interested, why not just use xslt to convert the XML directly into a U2 string and then pass in the data using uodotnet subroutines. Is there some advantage in using an extra step of converting to ADO? If you know xslt, xpath, xquery, etc, knock your

RE: [U2] GT vs (was RE: U2 Users Digest... (really Standards))

2005-10-03 Thread Tony Gravagno
Marilyn Hilb wrote: Guess I lost something along the line here.. what is the 4 letter word? Can't be anything other than... GOTO --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

RE: [U2] Source Code Management

2005-09-30 Thread Tony Gravagno
I'm glad Brian stepped up with his comments below. There is a difference between source control and software management. Everyone has different requirements so when someone says I need source control and everyone chimes in with CVS, etc, it's like proposing a helicopter to someone who needs

RE: [U2] Are there any UniVerse / U2 Basic Language Self-Study materials?

2005-09-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
dare say there would be others who would as well. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development TG@ removethisNebula-RnD .com CWNoah2-at-aol.com wrote: Ray, I've been looking for the source code to PROF for years. I would like to acquire the rights to it, make it GPL, and bring

RE: [U2] UV and XML Schema

2005-09-21 Thread Tony Gravagno
Webmaster wrote: Tony Gravagno wrote: MS .NET is built on XML. One of the core functions of this technology is parsing to/from XML using schema. Gah. .NET is wasted data bloat when you really need a specific and potentially static XML format for data transport. Just because .NET uses

RE: [U2] U2/UV Enhanced reporting tools

2005-09-21 Thread Tony Gravagno
Mark, you're looking for a solution to reporting issues but you don't say what those issues are, then you present a couple products and ask for comments. See the paradox? Can you tell us what sorts of problems you're having that need to be solved and then maybe we can comment on the suitability

RE: [U2] Integrating .NET and UniVerse 10

2005-09-20 Thread Tony Gravagno
Ewinger Klaus wrote: Hi Simon At DB2 Information Management Conference, IBM announced a new extension to UniVerse: U2 Soap Server. It is definitely the way to go for integration with .NET. As it fully supports WSDL, it plugs very nicely into Visual Studio 2003/2005. And Service Oriented

RE: [U2] sockets

2005-09-20 Thread Tony Gravagno
Cedric Fontaine wrote: Tony Gravagno wrote: Here is a link to the question and answer. http://forums.rainingdata.com/index.php?showtopic=869 Sorry but as a developper of JD3, I disagree that jd3 cannot be used on live site. Since two years we're using jd3 on live sites and it works

RE: [U2] UV and XML Schema

2005-09-20 Thread Tony Gravagno
I've seen the other suggestions but I'll add the following: MS .NET is built on XML. One of the core functions of this technology is parsing to/from XML using schema. Rather than trying to parse/interpret/generate raw XML on your own, you may want to consider using free technology that was

RE: [U2] Integrating .NET and UniVerse 10

2005-09-19 Thread Tony Gravagno
of issues with ODBC. IBM was not able to fix the errors in the server, and these issues went on for months. People in this forum and elsewhere said they preferred to simply avoid these interfaces. The client was up and in production very shortly after activating licenses. HTH, Tony Gravagno Nebula

RE: [U2] PHP Options

2005-09-18 Thread Tony Gravagno
Dawn Wolthuis wrote: I know I've read about this topic on the list before, but it is hard to find with a search because of all of the URL's with php in them. What are the options for communicating with UniData from PHP? Thanks. --dawn Hi Dawn. I had the same question about D3 and asked

RE: [U2] Looking for CheckIn CheckOut

2005-09-12 Thread Tony Gravagno
Hi Dave. Of course said simple but if it's too simple it may not achieve goals your client has in mind. You may want to verify their goals and budget, and exactly what simple really means. The only commercial VCS package I'm aware of that's supported and available for U2 is PRC from Susan

RE: [U2] [UV] Triggers, transaction state and interaction with the 'outside world' [AD]

2005-09-08 Thread Tony Gravagno
MICHAEL.HENDERSON wrote: The mechanism chosen by our architecture team is Microsoft BizTalk Server Please can anyone offer any experienced-based advice here, or suggest an alternative d which is easier, better, and/or quicker than my ideas. And yes, I'd at least consider a buy my

RE: [U2] UniSubroutine: ErrorCode: 30106: Wrong number of arguments supplied to the subroutine

2005-09-02 Thread Tony Gravagno
Mats Carlid wrote: We started in Prine information in the early 80's and used named common from day 1. Unnamed common was deemed to be too dangerous if/when coexisting with another application or general subroutines in the same environment and thus _never_ used it - I tend to forget

RE: [U2] Programs slowing down after many iterations

2005-09-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
I'll echo the concept of using named common to cache file handles to avoid re-opening. I use this as a key technique in web applications. Funny enough, right before I got to this thread I wrote a paper to explain to one of my clients how it works. The key thing is to use Named common, not

RE: [U2] Programs slowing down after many iterations

2005-09-01 Thread Tony Gravagno
Message- From: Tony Gravagno IF UNASSIGNED(FILE1) THEN [snip] ...I recently accidentally made a change that didn't set FirstTime type flags... [snip] ...to reset the FilesAreOpened flag... --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http

[U2] RE: free info - was XML and Accuterm

2005-08-25 Thread Tony Gravagno
of these as equally valuable offerings in this market where many people need as much information as they need assistance with development using modern technologies. Tony Gravagno Nebula Research and Development --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http

RE: [U2] XML and Accuterm

2005-08-24 Thread Tony Gravagno
Will wrote: Does someone have a code example where they are sending an XML request using Accuterm scripting ? Thanks An XML request for what? Can you give us an example of how you would use that? XML is just a blob of text so it's no different than any other text. AccuTerm is a good raw

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