If any program develops out of this, please let me know!
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From: Juanse Barros J
To: Hayes, Andrew; 'Doyle, Peter W'; 'Mapinfo-L'
Subject: RE: MI Workspace regression utility
Date: Wednesday, March 15, 2000 9:28PM
Why not developing a tool, if possible, that will start by checking on a
given directory(s) before proceding with the exclusion/deletion of open
tables and asociated operations.
Juanse Barros
Chile
-----Mensaje original-----
De: Hayes, Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Para: 'Doyle, Peter W' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 'Mapinfo-L'
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fecha: Miércoles, 15 de Marzo de 2000 08:48 p.m.
Asunto: RE: MI Workspace regression utility
>Peter,
>
>Sounds like it might be worth expanding on this. Perhaps by posting it to
>mapinfo-l together with the source code, people could take the utility and
>build on it if you gave permission for that. Then hopefully, we could end
>up with a utility that will read a workspace file, remove the open table
>statement where a file cannot be fined, remove the relevant map from
>statement and comma separator, and remove the layer control information
>depending on where the layer appeared in the map from statement. Queries
>using that table should also be considered.
>
>Andrew Hayes
>GIS Analyst/Programmer
>Wakefield MDC
>> Web: http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/
>E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Tel: 01924-(30)5440
>Fax: 01924-(30)5424
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Doyle, Peter W [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 6:13 AM
>To: 'Mapinfo-L'
>Subject: MI Workspace regression utility
>
>
>Greetings,
>
> Recently I have noticed there are a number of people inquiring about
>how to open a Workspace that was created by a later version of MapInfo.
>
> As most of us are probably aware, the process is relatively simple
>yet time consuming. Eg. use a text editor to edit the header of the
>workspace, and
> then try to eliminate those lines that are not supported be earlier
>versions. (can be frustrating at times).
>
> As I have a need to do this quite often, I decided to automate the
>process by writing a simple MapBasic utility. I have taken a very
>simplistic approach -
>
> 1) Read in the workspace
> 2) Change the header
> 3) Disregard all lines except for the table information
> 4) Save out to new workspace
>
> You are left with a stripped down workspace that should load into
>any MapInfo version, although you have now lost any formatting, layouts
etc.
>
> If you think this may suite your needs, or you just want to check it
>out, Email me directly and I will forward it to you. Someone may even like
>to build
> on the idea?
>
> If there is enough interest I will upload it to the Mapinfo-L site
>
>
>Regards
>
>Peter Doyle
>TELSTRA
>OnAir Networks Queensland
>Geographical Information Systems & Mapping
>' +61 7 34064304
>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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