[U2] Help with REVISE (AKA ENTRO/ENTROC)

2013-01-23 Thread Clifton Oliver
appreciated! Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 225 341 1778Web: www.oliver.com ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

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

2012-11-01 Thread Clifton Oliver
So me a person who wants* to work in RPL, and I'll show you desperate. On Nov 1, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: http://simply.engcen.com/JobAdCareerJet.asp?JobID=1253361 Really don't these people get actual... you know... specs? What did they do skip some words?

Re: [U2] Command that turns off default command stacker

2012-05-05 Thread Clifton Oliver
ED VOC STACKWRITE Change ON to Off I think that's what you are looking for. On May 5, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Wjhonson wjhon...@aol.com wrote: The users arent getting to TCL The stack is created simply by logging in. It doesn't matter if you are at TCL or not. -Original

Re: [U2] SQL Equiv to Save-list?

2010-04-08 Thread Clifton Oliver
How about SELECT CUSTNAME, CUSTADDR, CUSTCITY FROM CUSTOMERFILE SLIST 'saved_list-name'; Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:28 PM, Perry Taylor wrote: You might try... select custname

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-23 Thread Clifton Oliver
. MultiValue Query comes to mind. I'm open to suggestions about that and other terms. Post them here, or if you'd rather not, just send them to me at edi...@intl-spectrum.com (or my regular e-mail address). Regards, Clif -- Clifton Oliver, Managing Editor International Spectrum Magazine Spectrum Tel

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-23 Thread Clifton Oliver
(and I see many of them here too). Regards, Jim -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 6:39 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Pick Pocket

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-23 Thread Clifton Oliver
Got it. grin I'll get it updated with our latest revisions and get an html version up shortly. (Read: It's my part-time job. I'll get to it--promise) Regards, Clif I'll post here and elsewhere when it available. On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:34 PM, Dan McGrath wrote: My apologises, I'd be

Re: [U2] Pick Pocket Guide

2010-03-22 Thread Clifton Oliver
Well, when the best known providers can't even get correct documentation in their manuals or examples that actually work, one wonders how suited they are to producing such literature. I'm not arguing against your point that they *should* be the leaders--like Sun, Microsoft, etc.--in literature.

Re: [U2] Terminal Emulator and Telnet Client for a MacBook Pro

2010-03-21 Thread Clifton Oliver
Yes. Parallels only runs on the Intel Macs. For the PowerPC Macs the option was VirtualPC. (Before Microsoft acquired it. Don't know if they kept it available for Mac after that.) It was slow, but for the most part worked. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES

Re: [U2] Terminal Emulator and Telnet Client for a MacBook Pro

2010-03-17 Thread Clifton Oliver
Hi, Dave. I use iTerm. It's free (in both senses of the word). http://iterm.sourceforge.net/ Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Mar 17, 2010, at 2:32 PM, Dave Taylor wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation

Re: [U2] Terminal Emulator and Telnet Client for a MacBook Pro

2010-03-17 Thread Clifton Oliver
Aw, you're just jealous 'cause we get to use a real operating system. ;-) On Mar 17, 2010, at 2:57 PM, Symeon Breen wrote: I recommend you buy a pc and use that instead Sorry - i just don't like apple . -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] Spectrum

2010-03-08 Thread Clifton Oliver
I'll be there. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Mar 4, 2010, at 12:55 PM, Kevin King wrote: Anybody? Bueller? Bueller? On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Kevin King precisonl...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [U2] Unidata PE Linux

2009-11-13 Thread Clifton Oliver
Would you mind sharing what those tweeks were? Thanks. Regards, Clif On Nov 13, 2009, at 9:46 AM, Douglas Hedges wrote: I got a PE for Linux (RHat) from IBM before Rocket took over. I installed it on Ubuntu and am just now testing it (so far, so good). There are a few tweaks but nothing

Re: [U2] Agile and Scrum

2009-10-15 Thread Clifton Oliver
it when the next meeting they asked me to provide them with a Gantt chart showing the iteration milestones and what features would be in each iteration. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Oct 15, 2009, at 1:36 PM

Re: [U2] Indexing

2009-09-14 Thread Clifton Oliver
I seem to recall that they added the CONCURRENT option to BUILD.INDEX several years back but didn't document it except in the patch file for that release. Does anyone else remember this? Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web

Re: [U2] which files have triggers

2009-07-22 Thread Clifton Oliver
November/December 2007. www.intl-spectrum.com/mag/NOVDEC.2007/default.aspx Regards, Clif On Jul 13, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Brian Leach wrote: Hi George I wrote about this in one of the back issues of Spectrum (you can download these from www.intl-spectrum.com). -Original

[U2] [UV] UniDebugger FTP mode

2009-05-21 Thread Clifton Oliver
Does anyone know a way to change the UniDebugger's FTP mode to Passive? Thanks. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http

[U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter?

2009-03-20 Thread Clifton Oliver
your opinions. Regards, Clif Twitter: @clifolliver -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

Re: [U2] International Spectrum Conference - Twitter?

2009-03-20 Thread Clifton Oliver
My last comment on this before suggesting we now move over to the u2- community list if there are further ideas of a non-technical nature. (I found Symeon's idea of using Twitter to pass along alerts from phantoms rather clever.) I want to thank everyone who shared their comments, both on

[U2] U2.NET question

2009-03-19 Thread Clifton Oliver
Hi, all. Is U2.NET included with (in this case) UniVerse like UniObjects.NET is, or is it a separate priced product like U2 Web DE (aka Redback)? Thanks. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com --- u2-users mailing

Re: [U2] Universe Triggers

2008-10-15 Thread Clifton Oliver
Which can get interesting if you have some of that old pre-EXECUTE legacy code that generates a Proc, writes it to the VOC, and CHAINs to it. Or that executes CREATE.FILE. Or that... Of course, you can put a trigger on the VOC to log changes. Regards, Clif On Oct 15, 2008, at 5:40 AM,

Re: [U2] Universe Triggers

2008-10-08 Thread Clifton Oliver
. Time it. You have your overhead answer. Don't ask opinions of pontificators when the machine will tell you the truth. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Oct 7, 2008, at 8:22 PM, Mike Roosa wrote: We

Re: [U2] Universe Triggers

2008-10-08 Thread Clifton Oliver
Brian wrote an excellent article about UniVerse Triggers in the Nov/ Dec 2007 of International Spectrum magazine (p. 12). You can download that issue from http://www.intl-spectrum.com/mag/NOVDEC.2007/default.aspx Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1

Re: [U2] Universe Triggers

2008-10-08 Thread Clifton Oliver
to. (Whether that is right or wrong is a different debate, but it happens.) Since triggers force transaction constraints, this will then fail. I don't remember the exact wording of the error message, something about ISO isolation level. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER

Re: [U2] .net uniobjects error 39204

2008-09-19 Thread Clifton Oliver
that it is, but it's something that's definitely worth investigating.) - Original Message - From: Clifton Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] .net uniobjects error 39204 Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 16:19:26 -0700 Here's the error. I got this from the UniDK/include

Re: [U2] .net uniobjects error 39204

2008-09-18 Thread Clifton Oliver
. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Sep 18, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Doug Chanco wrote: I cannot seem to find any reference to this error number, the documentation goes from 39204 to 39210 Does anyone know what this error means? Thanks

Re: [U2] Next UniVerse Release

2008-09-17 Thread Clifton Oliver
a look. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Sep 17, 2008, at 6:28 AM, doug chanco wrote: Clifton Oliver wrote: Based on the posting on this topic from Steve O'Neal, it appears we have our answer. Always do a sync

Re: [U2] Next UniVerse Release

2008-09-16 Thread Clifton Oliver
] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: 15 September 2008 09:36 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Next UniVerse Release Are you saying the db pause (uv -admin -L (if I recall)) we have been told to use does NOT commit T30 file headers? And the backup of the mirror is NBG? Regards, Clif

Re: [U2] Triggers

2008-08-28 Thread Clifton Oliver
. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com The information in the System Description manual is inaccurate. On Aug 27, 2008, at 8:32 AM, Tom Dodds wrote: Universe SQL Reference if I remember correctly. HTH Tom Dodds -Original Message

Re: [U2] Unidata to Universe port

2008-08-16 Thread Clifton Oliver
hours to code and one automated regression run to verify? Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Aug 15, 2008, at 9:20 PM, JPB-U2UG wrote: I didn't realize you were referring to the HOLD file. In that case you

Re: [U2] U2.NET v IBM.NET v UNIOBJECTS.NET

2008-08-14 Thread Clifton Oliver
International Spectrum magazine, March/April 2008, page 26. Available at: http://intl-spectrum.com/mag/MARAPR.2008/default.aspx also via http://tinyurl.com/63guo7 Regards, Clif On Aug 14, 2008, at 9:58 AM, Brian Leach wrote: The other main option is the IBM ADO.NET provider, which

Re: [U2] [UV] Editing Paired Value Marks

2008-08-13 Thread Clifton Oliver
Bill, The assumption is that you are using the standard UniVerse ED editor. What editor are you using? Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Aug 13, 2008, at 5:13 PM, Brutzman, Bill wrote: Ray: Thanks

Re: [U2] UniData PROC tip: DB command

2008-08-02 Thread Clifton Oliver
UniVerse has a Proc manual, except they call it ProVerb these days. It is available for free from the IBM web site in the 10.2 (and before) documentation set. Not vouching for the quality, completeness, or accuracy, however. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER

Re: [U2] OPEN fname ... ELSE STOP 3000, fname

2008-07-31 Thread Clifton Oliver
Could it be a user (site) created ERRMSG file item? I knew one VAR that did that kind of thing for most of their packages error messages. Regards, Clif On Jul 31, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Stevenson, Charles wrote: I've got old, old code riddled with STOP 3000, filename. ERRMSG 3000 does not

Re: [U2] UniData PROC tip: DB command

2008-07-31 Thread Clifton Oliver
Just as a point of history, EXECUTE was invented by the Devcom team who wrote what became Prime INFORMATION. Our in-house motto was PROCs are Crocks. Regards, Clif On Jul 31, 2008, at 8:22 PM, MAJ Programming wrote: Microdata advanced PQ proc to PQN while regular Pick was advancing

Re: [U2] OT - Pick mentioned in letter to the editor... [not-secure]

2008-07-08 Thread Clifton Oliver
laughing That was my first reaction, too. Doesn't seem to know the difference between virtualization and platform independence. My second thought, when the editor lobe of my brain kicked in, was, My. What an 'interesting' attitude and tone to use to try to win over an editor to your

Re: [U2] UVODBC Account Activation {unclassified}

2008-06-26 Thread Clifton Oliver
out the twenty to thirty year's worth of crap people have lazily slopped into the dictionary. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Jun 25, 2008, at 1:11 PM, MACK ANDREW, MR wrote: Hi, A clean account is almost

Re: [U2] Printer errors in the error log

2008-05-24 Thread Clifton Oliver
for thinking of it! Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

Re: [U2] locking code question

2008-05-15 Thread Clifton Oliver
BP files have to be either type 1 or type 19 (directories). Not having a file header, you can't have a SICA, can you? Same reason you can't have indexes or transaction logging on them. At least that's my understanding. I'd love to find out there is a way to do it. Regards, Clif On May

Re: [U2] Global Catalog - Recovery

2008-05-15 Thread Clifton Oliver
] 630.235.2975 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:55 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] Global Catalog - Recovery Cataloging locally might not be an option if there are a lot

Re: [U2] UniObjects.NET: populating ListBox from XML

2008-05-14 Thread Clifton Oliver
= DS.Tables(0) .DisplayMember = COMPANY .ValueMember = CUSTOMER End With Regards, David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:05 AM To: u2-users

[U2] UniObjects.NET: populating ListBox from XML

2008-05-13 Thread Clifton Oliver
Having been successful last week at populating a GridDataView control using .GenerateXML, we naively thought using XML to populate a ListBox would be just as straightforward. Using the same code pattern, we've tried Cmd = uvSession.CreateUniXML Cmd.GenerateXML(SORT CUSTOMER

[U2] Fwd: Digiboards

2008-05-13 Thread Clifton Oliver
Posted for a non-list member. Begin forwarded message: From: hbkeultjes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.databases.pick Subject: Digiboards Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:53:18 -0700 (PDT) Anyone interested in a bunch of Digiboards, many brand new, including the cables and 8-port terminations,

Re: [U2] UniVerse Triggers

2008-05-08 Thread Clifton Oliver
that it was referring to actual SQL commands rather than calling BASIC subroutines. Thanks for correction. Mike Randall, MCP -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Clifton Oliver Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:58 PM

DQM (was [U2] Using ETL to extract data from UD to SQL)

2008-05-08 Thread Clifton Oliver
. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On May 8, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Boydell, Stuart wrote: nd dirty data to get to a set of data suitable for your DW/reporting requirements. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe

Re: [U2] UniObjects.NET: .GenerateXML method fails

2008-05-07 Thread Clifton Oliver
Thanks, David. I'll check those references and post a summary findings back to the list. I really appreciate the help! Regards, Clif On May 6, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Hona, David S wrote: Clif, I vaguely recall that the UniXML functionality isn't officially supported until UV 10.2.x (on the

Re: [U2] UniObjects.NET: .GenerateXML method fails

2008-05-07 Thread Clifton Oliver
It's confirmed. As soon I globally cataloged that routine, DataGridView is working. We haven't gotten a list box to work, but that will be another subject line for archive purposes. Thank you! Regards, Clif On May 6, 2008, at 3:12 PM, Clifton Oliver wrote: Sure enough, that subroutine

Fwd: [U2] UniVerse Triggers

2008-05-07 Thread Clifton Oliver
Excuse me. I mistyped. That is three 90 minute sessions, not one hour. Regards, Clif Begin forwarded message: From: Clifton Oliver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 7, 2008 5:58:05 PM PDT To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] UniVerse Triggers It's a UniVerse SQL command (yes

Re: [U2] UniVerse Triggers

2008-05-07 Thread Clifton Oliver
through Spectrum University on the topic of UniVerse Triggers starting next Thursday. The course is three one-hour sessions on three consecutive Thursdays. For more information, please see http://www.intl-spectrum.com/tabid/159/univ/15/default.aspx [/AD] Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver

Re: [U2] [UV] fixtool

2008-05-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
, the backward link, and the flag word1. Level 5 adds the record ID and data (as a multivalue array) to the display of level 4. The output of each verbosity level is directed at the screen. To save them to a file, redirect stdout (standard out) to a file name. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver

[U2] UniObject.NET: What are you doing for LOCATE?

2008-05-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
a server-side subroutine and call it to do the LOCATE? Other ideas? Thanks for your recommendations. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please

[U2] UniObjects.NET: .GenerateXML method fails

2008-05-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
of the dictionary descriptors are trying to call a subroutine, so I don't understand what that part of the error message is referring to. Thanks in advance for any help, ideas, or insights. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com

Re: [U2] [UV] fixtool

2008-05-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
That should read 0-3. On May 6, 2008, at 10:16 AM, Clifton Oliver wrote: 0  3 are treated as level 2 --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

Re: [U2] UniObjects.NET: .GenerateXML method fails

2008-05-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
message is referring to. Thanks in advance for any help, ideas, or insights. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http

Re: [U2] UniObject.NET: What are you doing for LOCATE?

2008-05-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
Indeed it does! Regards, Clif On May 6, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Brian Leach wrote: I wrote my own - BUT - now I'm thinking I should recode it as a .NET 3.5 extension method to enhance the UniDynArray class. Which, strangely enough, sounds like a good topic for next month's Spectrum :)

Re: [U2] [UV] fixtool

2008-05-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
That is my understanding. The different levels just change how much and what kind of detail it reported. Regards, Clif On May 6, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Craig Bennett wrote: Thanks Cliff, I didn't realise they were verbosity levels. So the actual checks performed are the same for every level?

Re: [U2] UniVerse SQL Tables

2008-04-29 Thread Clifton Oliver
not affect files opened via the OPENCHECK statement. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:56 PM, David Jordan wrote: Hi Gerry I think there is an option in UvConfig that allows bad data

Re: [U2] UniVerse SQL Tables

2008-04-28 Thread Clifton Oliver
Not unless you've written a ten line test program to prove that. On Apr 27, 2008, at 10:50 PM, u2ug wrote: Can we safely assume that any file writes on sql tables are not subject to data type checks or will this pop up to bite us at some point ? --- u2-users mailing list

Re: [U2] UniVerse SQL Tables

2008-04-28 Thread Clifton Oliver
Not unless you've written a ten line test program to prove that. On Apr 27, 2008, at 10:50 PM, u2ug wrote: Can we safely assume that any file writes on sql tables are not subject to data type checks or will this pop up to bite us at some point ? --- u2-users mailing list

Re: [U2] UniVerse Triggers

2008-04-26 Thread Clifton Oliver
I have several clients who have been using triggers for a couple of years with no reported issues, other than the performance hit. Regards, Clif -- W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com On Apr 25, 2008, at 11:42 PM, Horacio

[U2] Mar/April 2008 issue of International Spectrum magazine

2008-03-07 Thread Clifton Oliver
The Mar/April 2008 issue of International Spectrum magazine is at the printer and is now available in PDF format for download at www.intl-spectrum.com Regards, Clif --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

Re: [U2] Question about the U2 News Flash...

2008-02-29 Thread Clifton Oliver
The issue is in the final stages of going to press, so it's not up on the web site yet. I've made a note to post an announcement to the list as soon as it is. [AD] (kind of) Brian written several articles for Spectrum magazine. The back issues can be downloaded from the web site. [/AD]

Re: [U2] Question about the U2 News Flash...

2008-02-29 Thread Clifton Oliver
laughing Anyone want to edit the Editor? On Feb 29, 2008, at 1:52 PM, Clifton Oliver wrote: Brian written several articles for Spectrum magazine. The back issues can be downloaded from the web site. ^ has --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org

Re: [U2] release notes (was: SLEEP 60 slept only 53 seconds, or else TIMEDATE() is wrong)

2008-02-19 Thread Clifton Oliver
That's an interesting comment. If it is documented in the patchlist, I think that makes it part of the release. Plus, we found out about it being there in a public talk by LeRoy Dreyfuss at the IBM conference in Orlando a couple of years ago. At the time LeRoy was the U2 product manager

Re: [U2] release notes (was: SLEEP 60 slept only 53 seconds, or else TIMEDATE() is wrong)

2008-02-16 Thread Clifton Oliver
Don't forget to read each releases patchlist in the UV directory. They have been known to put things in there that aren't in the New Features doc. The CONCURRENT option to BUILD.INDEX comes to mind. -- Regards, Clif W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678

Re: [U2] anyone seen this error before?

2007-12-17 Thread Clifton Oliver
, and you end up getting some files data written into a completely different file, usually corrupting the group or even the file header, depending on how angry the computer gods are that day. -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON

Re: [U2] anyone seen this error before?

2007-12-15 Thread Clifton Oliver
That is the reason for having the cron script use the PHANTOM command. - Clif On Dec 15, 2007, at 1:46 PM, John Godzina wrote: I'm not sure, but wasn't there some discussion a while back stating that multiple UV processes initiated via cron would be fine if each process had their own

Re: [U2] anyone seen this error before?

2007-12-15 Thread Clifton Oliver
Godzina wrote: Hi Cliff, Can I also simply wrap the UV process in something that changes the pgid? (e.g.: the setpgrp command in perl) John Clifton Oliver wrote: That is the reason for having the cron script use the PHANTOM command. - Clif On Dec 15, 2007, at 1:46 PM, John Godzina wrote

Re: [U2] To Ad or Not to Ad [not-secure]

2007-12-05 Thread Clifton Oliver
chuckle When the original Devcom team was writing INFORMATION, we didn't have job titles or business cards. This was causing one of the chaps some problems in obtaining a loan, so a couple of us had a session of composing the most inflated job descriptions possible. And a lot of people

Re: [U2] To Ad or Not to Ad

2007-12-05 Thread Clifton Oliver
Only if you sell your opinion. Then we get to invoice you for Reuse Fees. On Dec 5, 2007, at 10:26 AM, Kevin King wrote: I agree with Chuck, Brian, Clif, Susan, and anyone else who agrees with me. :-) (Hmmm, does that make this an [AD]?) --- u2-users mailing list

Re: [U2] Accessing the OS

2007-12-05 Thread Clifton Oliver
or since the OP was asking about from within UniBasic, the syntax he would want would be execute \SH -c ls -l\ -- Regards, Clif On Dec 5, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Jeff Schasny wrote: SH For example SH -c ls -al Brutzman, Bill wrote: From a UniBasic green-screen application (using Dynamic

Re: [U2] Deep and long indentations vs multiple exit points - AD functionality not bugs

2007-12-03 Thread Clifton Oliver
Sorry, Stuart. I should have completely trimmed the reply quote on my post so it didn't look (as it apparently did) that I was singling out you as the main target of my comments (after the part about guard clauses). It was more of a sociological musing as to how many times over the years

Re: [U2] Deep and long indentations vs multiple exit points - AD NAUSEUM

2007-12-02 Thread Clifton Oliver
Perhaps you might want to expand your search criteria to include the last ten years and examine the use of Guard Clauses. Does anyone else on the list find these discussions of style, good practice, etc. to be both out-of-date and an exercise in wasted bandwidth (not to mention having too

Re: [U2] Cool stuff for a Friday [not-secure]

2007-11-26 Thread Clifton Oliver
Who, me? ;-) On Nov 26, 2007, at 5:43 AM, Hennessey, Mark F. wrote: Cliff - I'm willing to bet you do it because you CAN. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

Re: [U2] [UV] Can I get some advice on triggers?

2007-11-26 Thread Clifton Oliver
has a good article on UniVerse file triggers in it. Also, International Spectrum is putting together a webinar on this topic. I'll announce it on this list when we have a schedule set. [/AD] -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER

Re: [U2] [UV] Can I get some advice on triggers?

2007-11-26 Thread Clifton Oliver
Be sure to make that one parameter *some.subroutine. The subroutine needs to be UV globally cataloged, even if you are running in a Pick flavor account. -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678

Re: [U2] Time Travel

2007-11-26 Thread Clifton Oliver
For the group's edification, at sending out 60,000+ e-mails on some days (more than that when people had nothing better to do at work than flame each other about coding styles), this was one of the problems I had when I hosted the lists. Larry is also being polite and not mentioning that

Re: [U2] Cool stuff for a Friday

2007-11-23 Thread Clifton Oliver
be hard-pressed to switch back to Windows as a full-time system. -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com ~~~ On Nov 23, 2007, at 10:33 AM

Re: [U2] OT: Email encryption

2007-11-16 Thread Clifton Oliver
If the csv files are being generated by UniBasic, the language has encryption functions. Outside of basic, check out GPG. (http:// www.gnupg.org/) -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web

Re: [U2] OT: Email encryption

2007-11-16 Thread Clifton Oliver
Would work if you can guarantee that all of your clients use Outlook. But a lot of folks won't go near the thing. ;-) -- Regards, Clif On Nov 16, 2007, at 1:30 PM, Jerry Banker wrote: Brenda, If I'm not mistaken Outlook has an encryption feature built into it. Jerry --- u2-users

Re: [U2] UV - 10.2.2 [not-secure]

2007-11-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
Mark, Would you mind giving just a brief description of what you mean by broken please? Not in detail (unless you want to grin) but enough to let the rest of us know what to watch out for. Thanks. On Nov 6, 2007, at 12:43 , Hennessey, Mark F. wrote: Also, usa is broken at 10.2.2 ---

Re: [U2] UV - 10.2.2 [not-secure]

2007-11-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
I am interpreting that to mean this is on those releases on all platforms (AIX) not just Solaris, correct? Thanks for the info! - Clif On Nov 6, 2007, at 2:51 , Richard Nuckolls wrote: usa, usm, usp (all the same executable) hang when trying certain operations. They problem evidently

Re: [U2] Universe Benchmark Email --BIG user count

2007-11-05 Thread Clifton Oliver
Magazine, p. 43, available for download at http://www.intl-spectrum.com/t/135488/link.aspx Good luck with your presentation. -- Regards, Clif ~~~ Clifton Oliver, Managing Editor International Spectrum Magazine Spectrum Tel: +1 720 259 1356 Clif's

Re: [U2] Stringing commands together on the command line. Possible?

2007-10-29 Thread Clifton Oliver
This is evil, but does string uv commands on the TCL line. SH -c 'uv TIME; uv WHO; uv COUNT VOC' 16:42:44 29 OCT 2007 26 uv From root 927 records counted. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

Re: [U2] Green Screen Dev. Environment

2007-10-10 Thread Clifton Oliver
Nucleus was covered by Charles Barouch in the Sep/Oct 2006 issue of International Spectrum Magazine, available on the web at the intl- spectrom.com web site (http://www.intl-spectrum.com/Magazine/ Magazine.aspx?Page=2). Or via (http://tinyurl.com/2y4nmt). [ad] While you're there, why not

Re: [U2] OT: Where to sell Systech serial port servers (for Serial printers/Serial Terminals)

2007-10-04 Thread Clifton Oliver
I doubt it you will ever make anything on these. You might check you local colleges and non-profits to see if you can get them to come haul them away (or pay the shipping) and then you take a charitable contribution deduction. -- Regards, Clif On Oct 3, 2007, at 11:43 , Larry Hiscock

Re: [U2] UV Printer file size limit reached

2007-09-26 Thread Clifton Oliver
Is that UVTEMP? Or just the regular /tmp (assuming UVTEMP is stored somewhere other than in /tmp)? -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com

Re: RES: [U2] Universe and triggers

2007-09-13 Thread Clifton Oliver
DOH! Sorry. Overlooked that. So much for speed reading. - Clif On Sep 13, 2007, at 3:38 AM, Brian Leach wrote: See point 6 on my post grin --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

Re: [U2] Universe and triggers

2007-09-12 Thread Clifton Oliver
or 19. -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com ~~~ On Sep 12, 2007, at 6:06 AM, Mats Carlid wrote: Clifton Oliver skrev: Since 10.0. Yes

Re: [U2] Does anyone know the effect of adding an ndex to a UniVerse file?

2007-09-12 Thread Clifton Oliver
of hundred equally different values, update overhead might be acceptable. The same logic applies as to whether or not to use the NO.NULLS option when creating the index. -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1

Re: RES: [U2] Universe and triggers

2007-09-12 Thread Clifton Oliver
Two more come to mind: If you change and recompile the subroutine, you have to drop and re- create the trigger. Files with triggers cannot be updated via UV/Net. -- Regards, Clif On Sep 12, 2007, at 2:04 AM, Brian Leach wrote: 5. Triggers impose some limitations : they all make sense

Re: [U2] Universe and triggers

2007-09-12 Thread Clifton Oliver
Oops. Meant to type not able to TL a type 1 or 19. -C On Sep 12, 2007, at 1:15 PM, Clifton Oliver wrote: There currently isn't a .Type19 file; that's the default in the absence of a .Type1 or .Type30. But they could add one and do what you suggest. I know this has been discussed within

Re: RES: [U2] Universe and triggers

2007-09-12 Thread Clifton Oliver
at it and report back. It sounds like a great technique. Thanks! -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com ~~~ On Sep 12, 2007, at 8:23 PM

Re: [U2] [UV] checking files for corruption

2007-09-11 Thread Clifton Oliver
I, too, am not sure how thorough it is, but I do a FILE.STAT (or ANALYZE.FILE). -- Regards, Clif On Sep 11, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Bob Woodward wrote: I'm not sure how through it is but I've always found that just doing a COUNT on a file has shown when there's a problem. -Original

Re: [U2] U2UG Wiki article on UV's SYSTEM(n) - I need help editing it.

2007-09-11 Thread Clifton Oliver
Naw. Ray's a *real* psychologist. He even knows statistics. grin On Sep 11, 2007, at 11:22 AM, Stevenson, Charles wrote: Maybe our resident psychologist, Ray Wurlod, can provide a Freudian explanation. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit

Re: [U2] Universe and triggers

2007-09-11 Thread Clifton Oliver
Since 10.0. Yes, it works on all file types except 1 and 19. Being directories, they don't have file headers, thus no place to put the SICA. -- Regards, Clif On Sep 11, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Geoffrey Mitchell wrote: I'm not sure in what version it was implemented, but you *can* have

Re: RES: [U2] Universe and triggers

2007-09-11 Thread Clifton Oliver
Not as of release 10.0. On Sep 11, 2007, at 2:24 PM, Marcos Fogaga wrote: The problem is that the TEST.FILE MUST be a UV SQL Table. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/

Re: RES: [U2] Universe and triggers

2007-09-11 Thread Clifton Oliver
~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com ~~~ On Sep 11, 2007, at 2:53 PM, Marcos Fogaga wrote: Hi, My UV is release 10.2 and if I try convert a regular pick file there are the error

[U2] Re: Documentation errors (was Get a grip)

2007-09-07 Thread Clifton Oliver
Good point, though we recently had an example where a feature someone on the list knew about is not in any of the docs, at least that anyone has said they found. I know I did a full text search on the 10.2 PDFs and didn't find it. (ODBC.LOGIN paragraph was the item.) Does anyone open a

Re: [U2] RE: Get a grip - was ads - was U2 University Last Week In Denver

2007-09-06 Thread Clifton Oliver
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