Re: [U2] [UD] ODBC Session Initialisation
Mike Rajkowski... ODBCLOGIN Works the same as the UOLOGIN. It does indeed! Many thanks Mike Jay Jay. Simon --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] [UD] Login
Bill; 1. Yes, you have to type in the full path. 2. Worked for me on 6.0.12 (W2k). Not sure if it's a version or PE issue. Normally I use UniAdmin (or telnetcfg) to update the default user. I put the proper account path in the startup dir and uncheck the prompt directory check box. This will always log you into an account and you can logto different accounts from there. You can either update any other user you see in here or delete them and they will use the default user config the next time they login. The directory keeps anything you enter - even if it is incorrect. Hth Colin Alfke Calgary Canada -Original Message- From: Bill Haskett I've been logging into UniData v7.1 on Win 2K3 for a project and am finally asking a few questions about the login: 1) Do I have to type in the full path (instead of just the account), and 2) Am restricted (the 1st time I try) to sixteen characters in the path? --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
[U2] uvbackup - without index files
Hi all, Do you known if there is a way to execute uvbackup with exclusion of indexfiles ? Thanks for help Manu --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] SUBR called from an I-Descriptor
Thanks Chuck, I didn't know the passed argument needed to be a dictionary item. In the I-descriptor, the 3rd argument that you pass needs to be the name of another D- or I-item in that same dictionary (or it could be an expression). I added it, and it works like a champ. Thanks, Steve --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Fw: [U2] [UD] Login
Why not create you're working directory someplace with a shorter path? I wouldn't recommend creating a working directory within the home path anyway. What if you had to delete the home and reload it? You would have to move your data files to another location so you could delete the home directory or would have to delete the individual files, a real pain. - Original Message - From: Bill Haskett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 6:42 PM Subject: [U2] [UD] Login I've been logging into UniData v7.1 on Win 2K3 for a project and am finally asking a few questions about the login: 1) Do I have to type in the full path (instead of just the account), and 2) Am restricted (the 1st time I try) to sixteen characters in the path? Welcome to Advantos Telnet Server login: USERNAME Password: Path (E:\IBM\ud71\Dta) : E:\IBM\ud71\DtaDemo Unable to set current directory to E:\IBM\ud71\DtaD UniData telnet session terminating... If I try to log in again the path is set properly and I can just press [Enter] at that prompt to properly log into the DtaDemo account. Welcome to Advantos Telnet Server login: wphaskett Password: Path (E:\IBM\ud71\DtaDemo) : [Enter] UniData Release 7.1 Build: (3146) (c) Copyright IBM Corporation 2005. All rights reserved. Current UniData home is E:\IBM\ud71\. Current working directory is E:\IBM\ud71\DtaDemo. I've read all the manuals, I think, and can't find anything about this. Any help would be appreciated. :-) Bill Haskett Advantos Systems, Inc. www.advantos.net (760)944-5570 (CA) (360)923-4838 (WA) --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
[U2] MegaWest Practice Managment system
I am scoping out a MegaWest system and see that the dictionary files are empty. The client wants ODBC access to the data, but without dictionaries it is Mission Impossible. Does anyone have experience with this system? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Ferries Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:19 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] SUBR called from an I-Descriptor Hi All, UniVerse 10.1.14 AIX 5.1 Here is my I-Descriptor: OGA.CD 0001 I 0002 SUBR(GET.OGA.CD,@ID,OGACODE) 0003 0004 0005 4L 0006 S I can compile it fine under one file: Compiling OGA.CD. SUBR ( GET.OGA.CD , @ID , STATUS ) However it fails when I compile it under a second file. The second file is a partfile, with indexes. Here is the error: Compiling OGA.CD. SUBR ( GET.OGA.CD , @ID , Word OGACODE. OGACODE syntax error If I change the SUBR to SUBR ( GET.OGA.CD , @ID), it compiles: Compiling OGA.CD. SUBR ( GET.OGA.CD , @ID ) The subroutine looks like this (I have not coded anything yet except for the two lines): 0001 SUBROUTINE GET.OGA.CD (OGA.CODE,VALUE,OGACODE) 0002 RETURN I am pulling out what is left of my hair. Thanks, Steve Ferries TCR Limited --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] [UV was UD] ODBC Session Initialisation {Unclassified}
Is there an equivalent in UniVerse? Certainly ODBC connections don't appear to go through the LOGIN paragraph in the target account or through the LOGIN paragraph in the UV account. Mike -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Lewington Sent: Monday, 13 March 2006 22:23 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] [UD] ODBC Session Initialisation Mike Rajkowski... ODBCLOGIN Works the same as the UOLOGIN. It does indeed! Many thanks Mike Jay Jay. Simon The information contained in this Internet Email message is intended for the addressee only and may contain privileged information, but not necessarily the official views or opinions of the New Zealand Defence Force. If you are not the intended recipient you must not use, disclose, copy or distribute this message or the information in it. If you have received this message in error, please Email or telephone the sender immediately. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Fw: [U2] Running a command from / via PCPERFORM
Just separate your shell commands with semi-colons eg PCPERFORM cd /;pwd Wally Terhune U2 Support Architect IBM Information Management 4700 South Syracuse Street, Denver, CO 80237 Tel: 303.773.7969 Fax: 303.773.5915 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded by Wally Terhune/Denver/IBM on 03/13/2006 02:03 PM - Kevin King [EMAIL PROTECTED] ne.comTo Sent by: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc stserver.u2ug.org Subject [U2] Running a command from / via 03/13/2006 01:40 PCPERFORM PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ne.com I am trying to PCPERFORM an OS-level command that has to be run from the root directory. Other than creating a shell script and executing that script, is there a way to structure the commands following PCPERFORM to allow a cd to the root directory and then run the command? More importantly, is there a platform independent way of doing it so that I don't have to have customizations for Windows vs. *nix? Believe me, if there was a way to do this without having to be at the root, that would be preferable, but this program just happens to require the current working directory to be the root before the command is executed. -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of pic09152.gif] [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type image/gif which had a name of ecblank.gif] --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
FW: [U2] [UD] ODBC Session Initialisation
According to the 4.1 Administering UniServer doc, ODBCLOGIN can be a globally cataloged subroutine, not a login paragraph. It's funny how there is no mention of this in the 5.2 or 6.1 docs. But then, there is no reference to UniServer either, except for a few vague mentions for environment variables and the like. Does ODBCLOGIN (or OCLOGIN, for ObjectCall) still work in newer UD versions? Does it work without UniServer? Now all we need is ODBCLOGOUT to match the LOGOUT paragraph in VOC. :-) Dean 'new to ODBC' Armbruster Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Jenkins Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:10 PM To: 'Simon Lewington'; u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] ODBC Session Initialisation Simon There's a little known feature in the UniData 4.1 documentation which got lost somewhere. My (vague) memory suggests ODBCLOGIN VOC entry or something VERY similar. Amongst other things it allows you to execute environment initialisation commands for NFA for example. I'll take a look on Monday and post my findings, though if anyone has 4.1 documentation to hand please pitch in. Regards JayJay -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Lewington Sent: 10 March 2006 15:59 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] [UD] ODBC Session Initialisation Is there a way to run some initialisation code for ODBC/OleDB sessions - like the LOGIN paragraph for udt sessions and the UOLOGIN subroutine for UniObjects sessions? If there's not an official way, does anyone have any tips for me? I need to be able to set some common variables before using some fields. I could well have missed this in the manual - apologies if so. I can't, for example, find UOLOGIN in the manuals. This is for UD 7.1. Cheers Simon --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Running a command from / via PCPERFORM
PCPERFORM can do multiple commands. Separate them with a linefeed (char(10)). You can actually pass in a text stream that is a script for the shell if you like, with if's and else's and other stuff, with a linefeed between lines. We use this run commands in other accounts without leaving the current udt. It will cd to another account, verify that the cd was successful, and run udt in that directory. This is on HP-UX with the Bourne shell. I don't know about other shells, other unix, or Windows. Dean Armbruster Ferguson Enterprises, Inc. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin King Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:40 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Running a command from / via PCPERFORM I am trying to PCPERFORM an OS-level command that has to be run from the root directory. Other than creating a shell script and executing that script, is there a way to structure the commands following PCPERFORM to allow a cd to the root directory and then run the command? More importantly, is there a platform independent way of doing it so that I don't have to have customizations for Windows vs. *nix? Believe me, if there was a way to do this without having to be at the root, that would be preferable, but this program just happens to require the current working directory to be the root before the command is executed. -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] MegaWest Practice Managment system
Martin, I worked for MegaWest for several years and unless Companion Technologies (the company who now owns MegaWest) has begun not installing dictionaries they have always been there. One convention that I introduced while there was for all production dictionary items were to be named with a leading exclamation mark to make a distinction between those items managed by MegaWest and user-defined items. Is it possible that the method by which you are trying to list the dictionary items ignores items with exclamation marks? Perry -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Martin Scholl Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 11:03 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] MegaWest Practice Managment system I am scoping out a MegaWest system and see that the dictionary files are empty. The client wants ODBC access to the data, but without dictionaries it is Mission Impossible. Does anyone have experience with this system? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Ferries Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:19 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] SUBR called from an I-Descriptor Hi All, UniVerse 10.1.14 AIX 5.1 Here is my I-Descriptor: OGA.CD 0001 I 0002 SUBR(GET.OGA.CD,@ID,OGACODE) 0003 0004 0005 4L 0006 S I can compile it fine under one file: Compiling OGA.CD. SUBR ( GET.OGA.CD , @ID , STATUS ) However it fails when I compile it under a second file. The second file is a partfile, with indexes. Here is the error: Compiling OGA.CD. SUBR ( GET.OGA.CD , @ID , Word OGACODE. OGACODE syntax error If I change the SUBR to SUBR ( GET.OGA.CD , @ID), it compiles: Compiling OGA.CD. SUBR ( GET.OGA.CD , @ID ) The subroutine looks like this (I have not coded anything yet except for the two lines): 0001 SUBROUTINE GET.OGA.CD (OGA.CODE,VALUE,OGACODE) 0002 RETURN I am pulling out what is left of my hair. Thanks, Steve Ferries TCR Limited --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. ZirMed, Inc. has strict policies regarding the content of e-mail communications, specifically Protected Health Information, any communications containing such material will be returned to the originating party with such advisement noted. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
[U2] Running a command from / via PCPERFORM
I am trying to PCPERFORM an OS-level command that has to be run from the root directory. Other than creating a shell script and executing that script, is there a way to structure the commands following PCPERFORM to allow a cd to the root directory and then run the command? More importantly, is there a platform independent way of doing it so that I don't have to have customizations for Windows vs. *nix? Believe me, if there was a way to do this without having to be at the root, that would be preferable, but this program just happens to require the current working directory to be the root before the command is executed. -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Running a command from / via PCPERFORM
Dean Armbruster wrote on 03/13/2006 04:33:27 PM: PCPERFORM can do multiple commands. Separate them with a linefeed (char(10)). snip This is on HP-UX with the Bourne shell. I don't know about other shells, other unix, or Windows. Unfortunately, this won't work on Windows. Neither will the semicolon as proposed in a previous posting. On Windows you can use an ampersand as a line separator. Of course, if you use that same construct in UNIX you'll get totally different results (possibly amusing, possibly frightening, definitely incorrect), since anything preceding the ampersand will be launched as a background process with the rest being tossed. If you have software that needs to work on both NIX and Doze, you'll probably have to check SYSTEM(33) to see which you're running, and assign your continuation character accordingly. Hey, you'll probably be doing that anyway, to deal with forward slashes versus backslashes and some other things. Tim Snyder Consulting I/T Specialist , U2 Professional Services North American Lab Services DB2 Information Management, IBM Software Group 717-545-6403 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
[U2] Re: [U2C] Advantages of U2 query over SQL
Ok, so maybe some things have changed in the last 16 years since I worked on SQL. There must be some overhead doing this, sort of like data replication, unless the table you are talking about is more like building a separate dictionary full of I-descriptors and using it instead of the regular dictionary and you actually are looking at the live data. - Original Message - From: Michael Doyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jerry Banker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 3:01 PM Subject: Re: [U2C] Advantages of U2 query over SQL Mr. Banker: I'm sorry, but this is patently untrue. A view updates with the tables it is created against. I'd offer a link to a definition, but the only usable one I can find on the web is from Wikipedia. Here's a disproof-by-example in PostgreSQL: test=# \d foo Table public.foo Column | Type | Modifiers +-+--- baz| integer | test=# create view bar as select * from foo; CREATE VIEW test=# select * from bar; baz - 1 2 3 4 (4 rows) test=# insert into foo(baz) values (5); INSERT 17244 1 test=# select * from bar; baz - 1 2 3 4 5 (5 rows) test=# update foo set baz=50 where baz=5; UPDATE 1 test=# select * from bar; baz - 1 2 3 4 50 (5 rows) Michael Doyle Linux Administrator / Developer AMO Recoveries On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 13:50 -0600, Jerry Banker wrote: Views are also just that, a view of the data at a specific time in the past. To get a view at another time you have to regenerate the view again. With virtual fields (I-descriptors) the data is real time all of the time. --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Running a command from / via PCPERFORM
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 17:08 -0500, Timothy Snyder wrote: Dean Armbruster wrote on 03/13/2006 04:33:27 PM: PCPERFORM can do multiple commands. Separate them with a linefeed (char(10)). snip This is on HP-UX with the Bourne shell. I don't know about other shells, other unix, or Windows. Unfortunately, this won't work on Windows. Neither will the semicolon as proposed in a previous posting. On Windows you can use an ampersand as a line separator. Of course, if you use that same construct in UNIX you'll get totally different results (possibly amusing, possibly frightening, definitely incorrect), since anything preceding the ampersand will be launched as a background process with the rest being tossed. But what if we use TWO ampersands?! It's so crazy, it just might work: cd something runcommand In both DOS and Bourne this command will change directory to something and, if that succeeded, execute runcommand. How you get 'something' to be '\' in DOS and '/' in UNIX is up to you. Which is to say, I don't think it's possible. Thanks, Michael Doyle Linux Administrator / Developer AMO Recoveries --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Advantages of U2 query over SQL
Terminology as I understand it. View: a pre-stored SELECT statement that can be used to deliver a result set when used. The result set can be filtered, constrained, grouped and or sorted by the query that invokes the view. The view is materialized only when used in a query and is thus as current as when the query is begun. Materialized View: a view in which the results are pre-calculated and stored in a summary table. UniVerse does not support materialized views. I suspect UniData doesn't either, but am not sure. Snapshot: the result of a query taken at a particular time and stored for posterity. UniVerse does not support snapshots directly, but clearly can do so via means such as REFORMAT, INSERT INTO table SELECT ... or the LPTR keyword (not to mention the COMO or DIVERT.OUT verbs). --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
[U2] [UD] Determine path logged on users are in
How does one go about determining the account (path) other users are logged into? If I do an LISTUSER I get: 2 Dtademo (0)- lu Licensed(UDT+CP)/Effective UdtSqliPhtmPooledTotal ( 2 + 0 ) / 210001 UDTNO USRNBR UID USRNAME USRTYPE TTY IP-ADDRESSTIME DATE 1 2232 197615 wphaskett udt pts/1 192.168.1.51 14:36:27 Mar 13 2006 2 1844 197615 wphaskett udt pts/2 192.168.1.51 18:17:13 Mar 13 2006 2 Dtademo (0)- where E:\IBM\ud71\DtaDemo I'd like to allow some users to list all users logged onto their application (logged into their accounts) then give them the option to log them off. I'm not sure if this is possible in UniData. Any ideas would be appreciated. As always, thanks. :-) Bill Haskett Advantos Systems, Inc. www.advantos.net (760)944-5570 (CA) (360)923-4838 (WA) --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] [UD] Determine path logged on users are in
I'd like to allow some users to list all users logged onto their application (logged into their accounts) then give them the option to log them off. I'm not sure if this is possible in UniData. Any ideas would be appreciated. As always, thanks. :-) On Unix it's easy with fuser on the VOC file - but you're on windows, so I don't have any insight. Jeff Butera, Ph.D. Administrative Systems Hampshire College [EMAIL PROTECTED] 413-559-5556 We're not given the burdens we deserve, we're given the burdens we can bear. Several --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
[U2] Write failure on DIR-type file
Here's a weird one. Trying to create a record in a directory file in Unidata on Windows, and the name CON.XXX fails with a write failure. Doesn't matter what the follows CON., this file name is apparently illegal. It would appear that Windows thinks any file name starting with CON. is being interpreted as the console device. Anyone else seen this before? -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Write failure on DIR-type file
Nope, never saw it before. But I can't create CON.XXX from Explorer or other native Win-XP utilities either. Apparently not a UD restriction, but a Windows one. Now I'm wondering about UV, too. For backward compatibility with Pick, UV generally transforms illegal characters in the item id into something that the OS will allow as part of a filename. I don't know what it does with a CON. prefix. Does UD generally do that sort of transformation, too? I'm guessing not. I'm guessing it conforms to the OS? cds From: Kevin King Here's a weird one. Trying to create a record in a directory file in Unidata on Windows, and the name CON.XXX fails with a write failure. Doesn't matter what the follows CON., this file name is apparently illegal. It would appear that Windows thinks any file name starting with CON. is being interpreted as the console device. Anyone else seen this before? --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Write failure on DIR-type file
You may find this reference exceedingly useful http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/ fs/naming_a_file.asp Regards --- ** _/ ** David Logan *** _/ *** ITO Delivery Specialist - Database *_/* Hewlett-Packard Australia Ltd _/_/_/ _/_/_/ E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _/ _/ _/ _/ Desk: +618 8408 4273 _/ _/ _/_/_/ Mobile: 0417 268 665 *_/ ** ** _/ Postal: 148 Frome Street, _/ ** Adelaide SA 5001 Australia invent --- -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stevenson, Charles Sent: Tuesday, 14 March 2006 5:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: RE: [U2] Write failure on DIR-type file Nope, never saw it before. But I can't create CON.XXX from Explorer or other native Win-XP utilities either. Apparently not a UD restriction, but a Windows one. Now I'm wondering about UV, too. For backward compatibility with Pick, UV generally transforms illegal characters in the item id into something that the OS will allow as part of a filename. I don't know what it does with a CON. prefix. Does UD generally do that sort of transformation, too? I'm guessing not. I'm guessing it conforms to the OS? cds From: Kevin King Here's a weird one. Trying to create a record in a directory file in Unidata on Windows, and the name CON.XXX fails with a write failure. Doesn't matter what the follows CON., this file name is apparently illegal. It would appear that Windows thinks any file name starting with CON. is being interpreted as the console device. Anyone else seen this before? --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Write failure on DIR-type file
Yep, see this and its been a problem for a while. A company I worked for has a file named to as CON.. Their software was originally written in PICK, but when they converted it to Unidata and moved to Windows, they discovered they couldn't create a file with that name. On windows, it is restricted as it refers to the DOS device Console. To get by it, we named the file UDCON. and created a VOC pointer called CON. pointing to the UDCON. file. Worked like a charm. Incidentally, there are several names you can't use to create folders/files, such as: CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, and LPT9. And to go into complete overkill on this, http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/fs/naming_a_file.asp explains naming conventions for Windows. Hope this helps. Steve From: Kevin King [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Write failure on DIR-type file Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:55:49 -0700 Here's a weird one. Trying to create a record in a directory file in Unidata on Windows, and the name CON.XXX fails with a write failure. Doesn't matter what the follows CON., this file name is apparently illegal. It would appear that Windows thinks any file name starting with CON. is being interpreted as the console device. Anyone else seen this before? -Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.PrecisOnline.com --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
