RE: Proc or Para

2004-02-05 Thread Anthony Youngman
Old history now, but as a Pr1mate (as in used, not worked for), I never learnt (or even MET!) procs until extremely late in the day. Official support for procs appeared with INFORMATION 8.1, released probably about 1991 just before they went bust :-( It just WASN'T THERE on any system I ever

RE: Proc or Para

2004-02-05 Thread Dennis Bartlett
Think of PROC as a type of dos BAT file... Sure you could write programs to schedule things to happen one after the other, but it sure is easier to just create a BAT file, ain't it? AUTOEXEC.BAT? Yeah, they evolved, perhaps too far, but essentially it was a simple procedural tool. -Original

SBClient on Windows XP

2004-02-05 Thread Mike Farrant
Can someone help? To access our main application which is written mainly in SB+ (text based only no GUI) we use SBClient. Since the advent of 32 Bit Operating systems (some time ago now) we have seen an extremely disproportionate amount of CPU resource being taken up by SBClient even

RE: SBClient on Windows XP

2004-02-05 Thread Lee, Andy
Title: RE: SBClient on Windows XP Mike, I think SBClient 5.2.4 is the earliest version supported for XP We found the 4. releases to be very cpu hungry.. but from about 5.0.5 they got better. We use 5.2.3 5.2.4 with no cpu issues. Cheers Andy -Original Message- From: Mike

Re: Memo: Re: [UD] Determining if list exists

2004-02-05 Thread Glenn Herbert
At 12:12 AM 02/05/2004, you wrote: [snipped] The same applies (here) with a BASIC program that : 0011 SENTENCE = \SELECT MD WITH F! RUBBISH\ 0012 EXECUTE SENTENCE CAPTURING JUNK RETURNING ERR In this case ERR = 0 if there's no items, not 401 under vanilla (R83, AP) Pick Unless.. Is there a

RE: Proc or Para

2004-02-05 Thread Dennis Bartlett
Yeah, they evolved, perhaps too far, but essentially it was a simple procedural tool. Wrong way round. Huh? I said Procs in the PQ form came before PQN's... Waz wrong wi' dat? The evolution was PQ to PQN ... From simple batch (step 1 to 2 to 3) we moved to labels (step 1 to 2 to (if a = b) then

Re: Proc or Para

2004-02-05 Thread Lance J. Andersen
And if it was not for Glen and Steve Buck who helped push for this inclusion, PI might never have had this as part of the core product. It did come to be a key piece of the product when PI+, PI/Open hit the market as we encountered a lot of old MD, PICK shops that we targeted to convert.

RE: Migrating U2 data

2004-02-05 Thread Glenn W. Paschal
Title: Message I have to agree here. We did the same identical conversion back several years ago from UV 7 on SCO, to the second UV release available on NT (don't remember the exact version number). All we did was TAR the SCO database, copy it through the network, and then UNTAR it on the

Re: UniDebugger in SB+

2004-02-05 Thread David Beahm
Javed- afraid CTRL T isn't doing anything for me. Colin- I'm not clear what exactly Dual session is about. I can click Compile, Catalog, or Run, and they work fine. However, the whole point of UniDebugger (from my perspective) is that it gives VB-like control over running code. I made

RE: Serial Connectivity

2004-02-05 Thread George Gallen
Title: Message what about using a serial - ethernet - wirelessbridge/// wireless router - server since your only talking about a scale, speed isn't an issue, go with the cheaper 802.11b Once it's all hooked, you establish a link from UV - scale via a socket connection George

RE: Serial Connectivity

2004-02-05 Thread George Gallen
Title: Message http://www.sena.com/products/by_name/hd_super/ Might be of some value? george -Original Message-From: Brutzman, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:38 AMTo: 'U2 Users Discussion List'Subject: Serial Connectivity We are

Re: Migrating U2 data

2004-02-05 Thread Cooper, Rudy
Cyndi, If your talking about converting Unidata (Unix) to Universe (W2k) then read on. We converted from Unidata on an HP Unix box to W2K running UV 10. It wasn't that difficult to do. Get a hold of IBMs Universe Technical Bulletin (Part # 74-0108) Converting Unidata Files to Universe Files.

RE: EVAL and LIKE

2004-02-05 Thread Kevin Michaelsen
I tried it. It didn't seem to work but maybe I didn't do it right. I did include the [1] in there. I'm a newbie, was I not suppose to. I'm also running this in a UNIQUERY statement at the colon prompt. Would that have anything to do with it not running properly. Thanks for whatever light you can

Re: Thanks - Was [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?

2004-02-05 Thread iggchamp
Thanks Ray and all of those who replied to my questions. I wound up choosing the 64bit option. For the record, I am in favor of using distributed files. I have many situations where I use them. However, I really didn't have the time to come up with a good algorithm to achieve even

RE: EVAL and LIKE

2004-02-05 Thread Shawn Waldie
Title: Message If all you need is justa count of records in a file with a particular field containing the value "*" or "Incomplete": COUNT file WITH field = '*' 'Incomplete' -Original Message-From: Kevin Michaelsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004

RE: EVAL and LIKE

2004-02-05 Thread Harold . Oaks
Title: Message Kevin: A problem is the use of the double-quote more than once - this will fail. Also, in your original below you have the following clause using LIKE: LIKE "'...*' which will not work in the way you want. Because the ...* is within the single quotes, the LIKE statement

RE: Serial Connectivity

2004-02-05 Thread Anthony Dzikiewicz
Title: Message I just got a digiport server running on Universe/Linux. We have a door/people counter on it and an RF mux. We used cat5 basic wiring with rj45 to db25 converters. Pins 2, 3, 7 (tx, rx, sig gnd) are all that were needed. If the digi driver installs properly and such it

Re: [UD] Determining if list exists

2004-02-05 Thread BNeylon
Good Heavens, Mark, I think you kind of missed the tone of my post. :-) I see you sent it just before midnight, you must have been tired. I suppose after rereading my post in the light of a new day, you will see that I understand why the code I copied from a prior post was poorly written. (Don't

Re: Thanks - Was [UV] Resize - Dynamic or 64 bit?

2004-02-05 Thread Ray Daignault
Separation is pretty much unlimited under uniVerse. However from a practical perspective, you should try to tailor your groupsize to something that would accommodate your data. For example if your AVERAGE record size is 8k in length, you will have records both larger than 8k and smaller than 8k.

RE: UniDebugger

2004-02-05 Thread Shawn Waldie
That didn't make sense, did it. No wonder I wasn't getting any responses. I even had my cup 'o coffee. I'm leaving now... -Original Message- From: Shawn Waldie Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 9:55 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: UniDebugger Is there a setting in

RE: Serial Connectivity

2004-02-05 Thread George Gallen
Title: Message I don't know about objections, haven't used it. George -Original Message-From: Brutzman, Bill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 2:33 PMTo: 'U2 Users Discussion List'Subject: RE: Serial Connectivity Is a "socket connection"

[UV/AIX] gzip data to file?

2004-02-05 Thread Stuart Boydell
[UV10/AIX] We have a requirement to output (10MB +/- ascii) data into zipped files, the files then being put on a web server for collection. I'm just wondering what the best approach to this might be? How would or have other people approached this? I'm trying to avoid writing the data until after