RE: ICONV/OCONV for unix internal timestamp (secs past 00:00 01/01/1970)

2004-04-28 Thread Stuart Boydell
Chuck, you need to worry about time zone when rendering the unix epoch time as it is UTC (aka GMT) based. A simple conversion of the unix epoch time to U2 date/time will be incorrect unless you are in Britain in the winter - and who'd be there then ;-) Have a look at

RE: Universe on XP (Personal Edition)

2004-04-25 Thread Stuart Boydell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] That's the problem. Telnet isn't being kicked out. I am doing this (start/stop) from the command line already. No big deal though. I just thought it was kind of odd. We run the 'real' system on unix and linux

RE: How to check if a variable is a filevar

2004-04-25 Thread Stuart Boydell
Is there a way of checking to see if a variable is an opened file variable? I can check if it is alpha, numeric, assigned and unassigned but I cannot find anywhere where I can determine a filevar type. isFilevar = (descrinfo(1,PARMS(n)) = 4)

RE: We need a web based Forum!

2004-04-21 Thread Stuart Boydell
Hi Kate, the web based forum they are talking about is essentially the same as this list. Contrary to some complainants that there is no e-mail notification, there is, in fact, an option for immediate e-mailing of new posts. However, you do need to write your new or response posts on the web site

RE: What client platform do YOU use (Parallel to GUI thread)

2004-04-21 Thread Stuart Boydell
Steve, I run a terminal emulator (Netterm) in 165x64 mode - no more because that's the smallest font I can read on the 17 monitor here. I run this on a Windows client against an aix/UV/SB+ app. The main advantage being that it just gives me lots of read space for programs. And yes, if our users

RE: GUI as nice as character-based

2004-04-20 Thread Stuart Boydell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wait do you mean the Windoze GUI that MS shamelessly stole from Macintosh ? Presume you meant to say that Apple shamelessly stole from Xerox - n'es pas? ** This email message and any files

RE: PDF Manual [Data typing in MV Basic]

2004-04-01 Thread Stuart Boydell
cOOL. Saves having to manually delete nasty unwanted plugins from the plugins folder ;-) -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Robert Colquhoun If you use the above don't forget to install Acrobat reader speedup from:

RE: PDF Manual [Data typing in MV Basic]

2004-04-01 Thread Stuart Boydell
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stuart Boydell Sent: Friday, 2 April 2004 11:03 To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: PDF Manual [Data typing in MV Basic] cOOL. Saves having to manually delete nasty unwanted plugins from the plugins folder ;-) -Original Message

RE: XML or WORD Format???

2004-04-01 Thread Stuart Boydell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Anthony Youngman In one word - it's IMPOSSIBLE. The beta version of the Save As XML plug-in, a free download for Acrobat 5.0 (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/89a2.htm for Windows and

RE: PDF Manual [Data typing in MV Basic]

2004-03-31 Thread Stuart Boydell
... If anyone knows of a comparable book (its wire bound, remember, so you can lay it down to use a keyboard/mouse) for version 10, PLEASE let me know. To maintain the feel of the original you could take the pdf to your local monastery and have the monks make a fair copy on palimpsest with

RE: The lists are closing

2004-03-28 Thread Stuart Boydell
Dear Friends: After 10+ years of either hosting or supporting the info-prime, info-unidata, info-vmark, info-informix, and u2-users etc lists, I have decided to shut down the list server. Congratulations Clif for a fantastic job well done! I *really* want to encourage ALL of you to come

RE: [UV] Index weirdness or ...

2004-03-24 Thread Stuart Boydell
This is actually how it's designed to work. The BUILD.INDEX routine, for the sake of efficiency, creates a complex SELECT list comprised of: AKIndexKey:@TM:AKIndexRecord Fantastic, thanks for that Glenn. This behaviour works for me (as long as doesn't get broken in a new release). I'll ask

RE: Suppressing detail in UniObjects command

2004-03-15 Thread Stuart Boydell
DET.SUPP is not a valid attribute. Any ideas? This works perfectly from the udt prompt. Try ID.SUP DET.SUP (just one 'P'). ** This email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended

RE: VB primer help ?

2004-03-04 Thread Stuart Boydell
In a universe database I have a file Customers. In an Access database I have some of the fields of that same file as well, populated from the source universe file via a flat file transport and import. Have you not got ODBC available? Now however I need to just update those rows that have

Eclipse

2004-03-02 Thread Stuart Boydell
Just saw a www.ibm.com/developerWorks seminar on web services. They are using Eclipse as their IDE and I was impressed by the sexiness of the tools (We can get to whether they work or not later). There was a thread on here a few months ago about U2 Eclipse and I was wondering if anyone had built

RE: Common Universe/Unidata files

2004-02-25 Thread Stuart Boydell
We have separate applications running on Universe and Unidata. The apps run on separate aix servers. We would like to create a common file that can be accessed by both applications but are not sure of the best approach to take. Any suggestions?? UniObjects for Java? A UOJ session on the

RE: [UV] paragraph labels

2004-02-19 Thread Stuart Boydell
IF some condition THEN GO OUT ...however, there is no OUT: label in the paragraph. Somehow, this works. Is OUT some kinda built-in label? Don't think so, it seems like any undefined label will abort from the paragraph.

RE: [UV] Pass by value [was:Need/Want/Would like to know]

2004-02-18 Thread Stuart Boydell
Maybe passing a matrix in parentheses DOES pass by value - it passes the value of the matrix reference! Which still contains pointers to the matrix elements ... :-) With respect to the docu, I suspect it's meaningless when talking about matrices because it's not talking about what you think

RE: [UV] Pass by value [was:Need/Want/Would like to know]

2004-02-18 Thread Stuart Boydell
EQUATE CONST LIT ':' CALL xxx(CONST zzz(n)) Good call! ** This email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of addressed recipient(s). If you have

RE: [UV] Pass by value [was:Need/Want/Would like to know]

2004-02-18 Thread Stuart Boydell
I say this is a compiler flaw rather than a documentation flaw. While it may prove challenging to dig through the parse-tree to figure out when to make use of the implicit temporary, it should be done for matrix components as it is for scalars. The compiler can do it far more reliably for us

RE: wIntegrate Trial Version

2004-02-12 Thread Stuart Boydell
How do I get the server portion of wIntegrate installed? As far as i know, there isn't a server portion of wintegrate, me thinks he refers to host subroutines, installation instructions: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/data/u2/pubs/library/wintegrate/wintuser.pdf Chapter 2 Getting

[OT] Damian Conway on Perl 6 -- February 17 - Melbourne

2004-02-10 Thread Stuart Boydell
Any Melbournian Perl jockies who might be interested in this? Apologies for the off-topic post. - Subject: Fwd: Damian Conway on Perl 6 -- February 17 Tuesday 17 February, 11am WEHI Lecture Theater (http://www.wehi.edu.au/about/locations.html) Parkville Prof Damian Conway School of Computer

RE: Login question for Universe/SB+

2004-02-10 Thread Stuart Boydell
for the users emulator then you will have to data stack the command. data @account,'DummyPassword','TU.VT220.GUI' chain 'SB.LOGIN' -- Stuart Boydell ** This email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential

using locate in compound true/false statement

2004-02-08 Thread Stuart Boydell
A mild annoyance at some inconsistence using boolesque statements such as locate. One can use the syntax: loop while locate moon in sky setting sun do ;* a thing of beauty ...repeat yet cannot use: if locate spoon in pudding setting jelly then ... ;* food fight! Just thinking it would be nice if

[UV/AIX] gzip data to file?

2004-02-05 Thread Stuart Boydell
it has been zipped. Rough ideas being... sh - c 'uv prog | gzip -c9 file' Print to a script? Write to a device (or pipe?)? Output to a java widget? Other? Regards, Stuart Boydell ** This email message and any

RE: [UV] escaping temp in dos diectory

2004-02-03 Thread Stuart Boydell
. If that doesn't work, create a Type 19 file as part of the command. For example: execute 'DOS /C mkdir mytmp; cscript mytmp/myscript.vbs' capturing cap or even execute 'DOS /C mkdir mytmp; cscript mytmp/myscript.vbs; del /S mytmp' capturing cap - Original Message - From: Stuart Boydell

RE: The result of VARIABLE[1,3] + 0

2004-02-02 Thread Stuart Boydell
-Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Mark Johnson... This brings up another aspect of the text/string situation: Consider this A="00"[1,3] ;*zeros for both lines B="00"[1,2] PRINT (A=B) and you would expect

Distributed multipart files [as RE: [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?]

2004-01-29 Thread Stuart Boydell
I have never come across distributed files in a system and they sound a lot like multiple part files (like SYS.HELP,XXX). What is the difference / advantages / disadvantages between usingdistributed files andmultiple data-part files? Can a distributed file also be a multiple part file?

RE: command shell quoting [was:UNCLASSIFIED RE: mkdbfile: create file in another account]

2004-01-28 Thread Stuart Boydell
Title: Message A question: does this quote mangling behaviour occur at real TCL or just from an SB+ SH.SHELL prompt.The SH.SHELL mangles double quotes - so that may be your problem. Note that the double quoteswork without nesting or escaping them in the following command(tested on

RE: Converting between Java/UniData dates

2004-01-27 Thread Stuart Boydell
Unlike pick time/dates, milliseconds from 1970-01-01 00:00 UTC or epoch is locality independant. If you have an application distributed over time zones, and recording events sequentially is important to you, then you will want to know that an event that occured at 16:00 in Melbourne actually