R83 ain't gonna help too much if the Proc ventured into the PQN (versus PQ) category.
Microdata and regular Pick (R80, 83, 90, AP, D3) were in sync with their PQ commands during the Jurrasic Pick era. In 1979 MCD introduced PQN with its extended features as shown in the earlier email. I was there at that roll-out. In fact, Microdata PQN procs could not call PQ procs and vice-versa. They were 2 separate interpreters. There were some tricks around this. Over the years the non-Microdata flavours stepped up their PQ-level procs (T command comes to mind instead of U01A6) but focused more on the EXECUTE command. This opened the door to making the English Commands available to regular Data/Basic instead of trying to bump up Proc to behave more like Data/Basic. Since Proc was still interpreted, non-indentable and cryptic, it was relegated to being a Menu handler or jobstream handler like Batch Files (Not to be confused with Batch Updating). Some jobstreams were so obvious that the paragraph interpreter was created to save all of the "H" and "P" command usage. (Sidebar. MCD also created the "A" correlative and had the edge for a few years on the other earlier native systems. They caught up eventually). But the damage was done as virtually every system that was written pre-1990 had procs scattered throughout. Every one of my clients still has procs. Unless there was a complete re-write, it will still retain this legacy code and language. I don't know about UV but UD has a setting that allows true-PQN proc commands to exist. There was an earlier Microdata language called RPL that I've not heard of in almost 30 years. Then there was those programmers who could create assembler programs and MLOAD them. These are probably long gone as well. All of that PIB and control block stuff was fascinating but unless you came from a useful BAL background, you didn't have a chance. Am I showing my age? My 2 cents. Mark Johnson ----- Original Message ----- From: "Francis Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:56 PM Subject: Re: [U2] UniData PROC tip: DB command > I have an original R83 manual (dark grey and red with white stripes) - if > anyone has a major problem with PROC (or BASIC or anything else for that > matter) I could look it up. > > Francis > ----- Original Message ----- > From: John Jenkins > To: [email protected] > Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 9:27 AM > Subject: RE: [U2] UniData PROC tip: DB command > > > And a few more PROC commands for the die-hards: > (I love them ! (sorry Wally !!) > (from memory - I think I got it OK).... > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
