[U2] Question about uvbackup dd and uvrestore

2011-04-13 Thread Augusto Alonso
Hi all. I'm trying to pipe uvbackup (universe) and gzip in order to compress backups "on the fly". I've done it with success. But the problem arise when I try to uvrestore from it. A simple test that you can try: RHEL:/u2/uv# find HS.SALES | bin/uvbackup -v -f - |dd of=hs_sales.bk Backup Date

Re: [U2] Who is Ed Clark?

2011-04-13 Thread George Land
I don't think anyone has a problem with Ed or anyone else contributing, it's just a case of being open about who he is. Knowing that he is an Intersystems employee means that we can understand that he is knowledgable about Cache but also, potentially, a little biased. Just as knowing that I am Ch

Re: [U2] Who is Ed Clark?

2011-04-13 Thread Dawn Wolthuis
I'm late to the party on this thread, but I'll put in my two cents that Ed is one of those go-to technical guys who knows a ton about MV. He has helped me out many times. He doesn't seem like a marketing type to me at all (less than I am, for example ;-) [and I clearly am not as marketing folks kn

Re: [U2] PDF Files directly from UniData or UniVerse

2011-04-13 Thread Ed Clark
FYI, the pcl2pdf program converts pcl to pdf (obviously), but it's also happy with plain text--normal spooler output, so you don't *need* pcl. On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:21 PM, Buss, Troy (Logitek Systems) wrote: > There are lots of choices. Ten years ago we found and continue to use > PCL2PDF32 (

Re: [U2] PDF Files directly from UniData or UniVerse

2011-04-13 Thread Ian Stuart
My customers use UNFORM from Synergetic - provides a rule based system for producing, delivering, archiving documents in PCL, PDF, Postscript formats. It's client-server, with clients and servers for Windows, Linux and UNIX (we use on AIX and Centos).Very easy to integrate into spooler or