Mark: > Pardon being a D3 question but someone may have run into this > before. > > My new client has D3 on W2K. I edited MD BOB and made > 001=PQN, > 002=HTIME and > 003=P, saved it and then type BOB at TCL and get [3] VERB?.
There are no PQN procs in D3 (I don't believe). Change field 001 to PQ. > I type LIST CUSTOMER and get output but when I type LIST MD = > "CUSTOMER" I get nothing. I'm not sure what's up since "CUSTOMER" is a file (or q pointer) and should reside in the MD. When you say you "...get nothing" what do you mean (let's see the command and the result). > I've found out that there's 2 MD's. One called MD which points > to that accounts SYSTEM defined space and another called > M/DICT which points to another account that contains the > cataloged programs, filenames, verbs etc and lets BOB work. That's unusual. Usually the MD "MD" item is a q pointer to the current account and so is the MD "M/DICT" item. They're synonyms. There must be specific reasons to change that structure and I'm not going to guess. I'm not sure what you mean by the "...SYSTEM defined space" but I'd guess you mean it points to the current account like: MD 'MD' size = 116 01 q 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 l 10 17 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 the item.id of a dictionary item is the name of the language element being defined. > So my question is what would happen if I made MD point to that > other account? Would I mess anything up. Their system runs > 20/7 but I'm not there at 4am to try this. I'd suggest you NEVER mess with this as someone else has made the change for some reason. Normally the "M/DICT" item is a synonym to "MD" but is changed for some unknown reason. In D3, you can reference another accounts MD by simply referencing "ACCOUNT,," or "ACCOUNT,MD,". If the "M/DICT" item has changed I'd think there is a reference to "M/DICT" somewhere but won't guess where. I can't say for sure, but when you execute a verb the MD is searched first. I don't know if the M/DICT is searched next or at all. So, either the "M/DICT" MD item is inconsequential or it acts a little like a PATH. Maybe a posting to CDP would answer this. ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.u2ug.org/listinfo/u2-users
