1.  Any of the UniVerse file utilities should tell you type; FILE.STAT,
GROUP.STAT, HASH.HELP, etc.  Or LISTFL has a TYPE column and is quick.

3.  SELECT  FILE  SAMPLE  500  SAMPLED 1200  will select 500 records
from the file, picking every 1200th record.  Not truly random, but
probably close enough depending on your purposes.\

HTH,

Jeff Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald & Long, Inc.

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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Doug Chanco
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 7:28 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [U2] question(s)

Hey all,

    I am back to "re tooling" my mind from jBASE to Universe (although
one question is not vendor specific)



1.      In universe how can I tell what type of pick file I am looking
at (type 2,3,4,5,6, etc ....)
2.      I am getting a few (very few) "PRINTER MEMORY SEGMENT REMOVED"
errors in root's emails but the few I am getting (roughly 3 a day) I
cannot seem to figure out what's causing them.  All our root cron jobs
are either using uvcron or PHANTOM to start the universe program.
3.      does anyone have a suggestion on RANDOMLY (or as random as
possible) a way to SELECT a file?  I am trying to get @ 500 RANDOM
records from a file with 850,000 items.  I have some ideas such as
selecting the entire file and then every "x" records do some math
operation and if even use this record but since I am a "pup" compared to
some of you "I have been doing pick forever vets" out there I thought I
would throw this out and see what comes back.



The keys look like



51037517

51037516

15312939

51037518

15312936

51037519

51037512

51037513

51037515

14137791

51037514

51037510



Thanks everyone!



dougc
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