Name Resolution
Hi All, does anyone currently do name resolution from within UV? I have a need to determine the dns name corresponding to an IP address under UV 10.0 on AIX, Linux and NT. I would prefer not execute an external utility and cannot use GCI. My current thoughts are to create a sockets client to query a DNS server, but I did wonder if there was a better way to do this. ICONV(203.42.18.135, DNSPTR) ;) thanks, Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: GUI as nice as character-based
just ask WordPerfect and Lotus (or DOS devotees or dumb terminal vendors or Eudora users or Netscape shareholders or vb6 developers). And, just what's wrong with these things?They're still available. And work And are used. Not a thing Bruce I wasn't suggesting there was. But there was a time when Lotus and Wordperfect where the behemoths which Excel and Word struggled to catch. I was hoping Ross would recognise the possiblity that Windows might go the same way despite current market domination. Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: GUI as nice as character-based
Dawn, how blue sky are we talking? I am hugely impressed with wxWidgets (http://www.wxwidgets.org) a C++ GUI framework for developing applications on Windows, X, Mac, OS/2. I also think the world is crying out for a cross platform application browesr (same idea as a web browser, but for running applications defined using XML and downloaded from a server. Not designed for browsing websites and hence with different security requirements (and permission to do more things on the client)). Want to colaborate to write one with wxWidgets? :) This does violate your rule about zero install, but I can't think of a real zero install technology ... once you consider web browser dependencies, java dependencies, flash player dependencies, citrix dependencies, terminal emulation dependencies etc there is always *something* you need to have or fiddle with on the client (otherwise we'd all be shipping PCs with no O/S installed). Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: GUI as nice as character-based
You can't really have a zero client footprint. I'd rephrase Dawn's statement to say that perhaps you are using client software that the average person would ALREADY have installed such as a browser, a jpg viewer, a mp3 player, etc. As long as its the RIGHT browser, an appropriate version, configured correctly. Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: GUI as nice as character-based
Perhaps you need to look at XAML/Avalon, which will be part of Windows Longhorn by the time it BYTES, the various opensource CLT projects should be up away, and you may have your path. But Ross, that gives me no more advantages than using IE6 in the context of Dawn's question (although I can see how an application vendor tied hard to windows might feel a little defensive about criteria 1 :) All our desktops at work and at clients are wintel (I run Slackware at home). Nevertheless, the thrust of you argument (and presumable the intended point of your straw poll) is not necessarily correct -- just because windows has vast market domination now, it does not follow that this will remain the case: just ask WordPerfect and Lotus (or DOS devotees or dumb terminal vendors or Eudora users or Netscape shareholders or vb6 developers). Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: The future of U2
2. The data is converted into two dimensional databases, requiring data typing, length definitions, etc. Dirty data will be an issue that can be covered a number of ways. The data will still look multi dimensional to the application. PostgreSQL supports multidimensional arrays, so perhaps DB2 does too and each MV record will become a single 3 dimensional text field? Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [UV] MCP
Ray, The CTYPE category only has ALPHABETIC, NUMERIC and TRIMMABLE (and, by inference, other) classes. I would hazard the guess that characters in the two Control Sets (Control Set 0 and Control Set 1) are those considered not printable. The BASIC manual refers to PRINTABLE and NON_PRINTABLE fields in the NLS.LC.CTYPE file? Is this an error in the docs? (UniVerse BASIC manual v 10.0 page C-31) In your place I'd be seeking an official answer, and posting it. I'll do that now. thanks, Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
[UV] MCP
Hi All, does anyone know how I can determine which characters are in the non-printable class on a NON-NLS system? We are runing uv 10.0. Thanks, Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: callHTTP
Hi Mike, UniVerse sockets will not strip CRLF. Attached is some old code I used to do HTTP requests for a screen scraping thing I was trying out when I couldn't get CALLHTTP to work as I expected. No promises that it will work, I haven't touched it in a while. I posted a trimmed version of this code on the list a few years ago. Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: XML or WORD Format???
John, The goal is to have a copy of our invoice that can be opened in WORD or Excel. try generating RTF or generate XML in Word 2003 format. Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
The U2 List is better than CDP
CDP is all very well, but the noice ratio can be quite high, not to mention the trolls. If we don't move to U2UG (and I think U2UG will be fine once we can reply by email and they clarify their intellectual property problem, and it would be nice if their emails contained a bit less guff) we should consider moving to a moderated or subscription only list. I missed the chatter from U2community when the lists at Oliver split, but that made the U2 list all the more valuable as a focussed technical resource. A switch to CDP or another uncontrolled forum would lose this quality. As all many have said: thankyou Cliff. But for the list I might still belive in SQL. Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
[AD] Re: Text file to PDF
Trevor, We have a product which will let you do this (and much much more) all from within UniVerse without any operating system or external dependencies. You can convert your reports in BASIC or from TCL, create sequentially if your input is large, squash wide format down to A4 add graphics, support NLS etc etc. Go to www.cross.net.au/pdf.asp for a look and to request a trial version or mail me offlist if you would like to look into it further. regards, Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [AD] Re: Text file to PDF
within UniVerse without any operating system or external dependencies. Whoops, that should have been UniVerse or UniData. Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing
Well the list is certainly going to go out with a bang then :) - Original Message - From: Joe Eugene [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: U2 Users Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:24 PM Subject: RE: Modern Universe - was: The lists are closing PICK is LEGACY Technology and does NOT Support alot of advanced level computing we have today. I belive PICK is Similiar to Legacy DB2 that used ISAM type of DataBases Access. Even IBM has moved DB2 (Now UDB) to a completly relational architecture. I belive some of the below are good reasons to Migrate to MainStream (Top 3 - DB2/Oracle/MSSQL etc) Databases. 1. UV has Little/NO support for Emerging Technologies(XML/XQuery/XSLT/WML etc) 2. UV is Not supported in Most Integration Enterprise Software (SAP/PeopleSoft) 3. UV is Not efficient compared to highly evolved databases(DB2/Oracle) 4. UV Folks seem to use PICK, which is Not Compatible with many of of the Current Advanced Technologies and Techniques. 5. UV is very SLOW, TOO Procedural and Not the right tool for an OLTP Environment. It would be nice if IBM provided a Package to convert all UV Stuff to IBM DB2 and perhaps provide some kinda code converter to convert all pick stuff to DB2 Stored Procs or Java Native Compiled Procedures. I belive this would be ideal and would help corportations intergrate systems easily. Joe Eugene From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Phil Walker Sent: Sun 3/28/2004 7:59 PM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: The lists are closing David, As the list is closing this is probably not off topic - so I will comment. I believe PICK has been around since the mid to late 1960's, whereas Oracle and the SQL relation model has been around only since the mid to late 1970's early 1980's if you are talking about Oracle etc. I may be wrong. Phil Walker +64 21 336294 [EMAIL PROTECTED] infocusp limited \\ PO Box 77032, Auckland New Zealand \ www.infocusp.co.nz DISCLAIMER: This electronic message together with any attachments is confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, do not copy, disclose or use the contents in any way. Please also advise us by return e-mail that you have received the message and then please destroy. infocusp limited is not responsible for any changes made to this message and / or any attachments after sending by infocusp limited. We use virus scanning software but exclude all liability for viruses or anything similar in this email or any attachment -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Logan, David (SST - Adelaide) Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 12:36 PM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: The lists are closing Best of luck Jeff, however I will point out the obvious, what is your definition of modern? I would have thought the good old relational databases have been around since before pick anyway? 8-) Regards David Logan Database Administrator HP Managed Services 139 Frome Street, Adelaide 5000 Australia +61 8 8408 4273 +61 417 268 665 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Ritchie Sent: Monday, 29 March 2004 8:03 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: RE: The lists are closing Thanks for the memories Cliff :) Sorry to hear the lists are closing, but what the heck time and tide, work committments etc. As some one who is shortly to be ex mv, and moving into the more modern technologies l will decline the offer to join, but wish the site all the best. Cheers, Jeff -Original Message- From: Moderator [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 27 March 2004 7:14 PM To: U2 Users Discussion List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The lists are closing Dear Friends: After 10+ years of either hosting or supporting the info-prime, info-unidata, info-vmark, info-informix, and u2-users etc lists, I have decided to shut down the list server. u2-users and u2-community will cease to exist as of 1 April 2004. IBM is officially supporting the efforts of the new U2UG.org group. (Yes. I am a member of the establishing Board of that group. So this is not a coup or Sour Grapes!) If you check out the forums that have been set up, I think you will will see that they cover everything anyone has asked for over the years in this group. I *really* want to encourage ALL of you to come over the the www.u2ug.org site and support this effort. This is *exactly* what many of you on this list have wanted over the years. If Not Now, When? Almost ten years on my Watch. How many years before that on Mike O'Rear's Watch? In the Net World, this has been a Hell of a good run. (I just couldn't resist tripping the Net Nanny filters one last time very evil grin) I'll see all of you on the other media, ok? -- Regards, Clif ~~~ W. Clifton Oliver, CCP CLIFTON OLIVER ASSOCIATES Tel: +1 619 460 5678Web: www.oliver.com
Re: Eclipse
Stuart, I saw an IBM presentation on Eclipse in 2002 and thought the same as you. Trouble is I am not a Java programmer and my prefferred editor is vi (which I wouldn't change for all the good things in the far off place). But as a platform for U2 tools, I can't think of a better spot than open source eclipse. Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [UV] Recursive GOSUB
Now, as to whether IBM could get the code and put it in... the answer is most likely NO. IBM and Ascential are separate organizations, and our code streams are separate and effectively protected. Ah, I thought you were suggesting this was work done at Ardent/Informix but never released. thanks for the explanation Dave, Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [UV] XML conversion in UV 10.1
Are there also tools that enbable data to go the other direction - from XML to a standard UV file? Sorry if I'm not being specific enough, but I'm a newbie to XML. John, I haven't really used it (I wrote an XML parser back in UV 9.6 and can't justify the switch) but my scan of the docs for 10.1 suggested that you can both create and parse/extract from XML. Craig -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [UD] Creating PDF from PCL output
I believe Ghostscript will convert PCL to PDF. See http://www.ghostscript.com/ HTH, Craig ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
Re: [UV] TAB characters in ED
Thanks David Phil. And there was I hoping for a something I could rely on without touching the source/configuring various sites. Sounds like ED doesn't have such. Craig - Original Message - From: Phil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: U2 Users Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 1:26 PM Subject: RE: [UV] TAB characters in ED Modify ED.B do get it to do what you want if it cannot. It is only BASIC source code which I had the unfortunate task of porting from PI/OPEN. Cheers, Phil Walker +64 21 336294 [EMAIL PROTECTED] infocusp limited \\ PO Box 77032, Auckland New Zealand -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Hona, David S Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 2:48 PM To: 'U2 Users Discussion List' Subject: RE: [UV] TAB characters in ED Craig, I believe this is a function of your terminal emulator. Some emulators let you set the tab character spacing, etc. Checkout the source code to UV line editor in the UV account, in the BP file - ED.B. Regards David -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Craig Bennett Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 11:21 AM To: U2 Users Discussion List Subject: [UV] TAB characters in ED Hi All, does anyone know if you can adjust how ED displays TAB characters? Specifically if I can adjust the display width of the tab character? thanks, Craig Bennett ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users ___ u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
