Re: [U2] Fwd: UML mapping tool for MV (UniVerse)

2013-07-16 Thread Don Robinson
Wj,   : Use the Don security theory, first offense, cut off a couple of fingers, second offense, cut off right hand, problem solved.   Seriously, this boils down to a management issue, employee supervision and "buy in". Don  From: Wjhonson To: u2-users@lists

Re: [U2] SORT reports line length, change right margin?

2013-07-15 Thread Don Robinson
proc, put an H before SETPTR and a P on the next line. Good luck, Don Robinson From: Anthonys Lists To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 11:52 AM Subject: Re: [U2] SORT reports line length, change right margin? On 15/07/2013 15:32, ran

Re: [U2] Running total

2013-07-03 Thread Don Robinson
Kate,   This gives strange results if F1 is multi-valued so attribute 2 of the dict item needs to be: @1+SUM(F1) Thanks, Don Robinson From: Kate Stanton To: U2 Users List Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2013 6:32 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Running total Are you looking

Re: [U2] Recognition for Rocket and Rocket's U2 in dual rankings today!

2013-06-04 Thread Don Robinson
arts and many other wholesalers and retailers should be added to this list.   Just my 2 cents, Don Robinson From: Daniel McGrath To: "U2 Users List (u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org)" Sent: Monday, June 3, 2013 4:59 PM Subject: [U2] Recognition for

Re: [U2] [way ot] - Electronic Button Purshers?

2013-05-06 Thread Don Robinson
Robert,   Since you offered, I'll accept.  If you know someone more deserving, that's fine. My first love is electronic hardware but I make a living by programming because it pays better. :-) My address is: Don Robinson 4189 Cannon Gate Dr. Cincinnati, OH 45245 TIA, Don Robins

Re: [U2] UV full screen editor

2013-02-26 Thread Don Robinson
grep which displays lines containing a search string.   I have samba setup so I can use Winmerge, windows grep or any windows editor directly from Windows. I use Ultraedit which has a very useful hex mode.   For data items containing multivalues and subvalues, AE is my choice.   HTH.   Don

Re: [U2] Data not seen using LIST.ITEM

2013-01-28 Thread Don Robinson
ook at the record with ED or AE editors.   Regards, Don Robinson From: Tyler44044 To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 4:04 PM Subject: [U2] Data not seen using LIST.ITEM Hello, Currently in the program I have, when I read values into an array called SR, if I do SR<30&

Re: [U2] Eclipse ? was Job ad in Ardmore, PA

2012-12-28 Thread Don Robinson
Jeff,   Why? A terminal emulator is a terminal emulator   Sounds like a needless restriction to me or does Eterm do more than emulate a termainl? Don From: Jeff Schasny To: U2 Users List Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 2:15 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Eclipse ? was Job ad in Ardmore, PA Accuter

Re: [U2] Job ad in Berean, PA

2012-12-28 Thread Don Robinson
Guys,   Do recruiters have special training in using big impressive sounding words?   Quotes:  Works with stakeholders to perform application functionality gap analysis and feasibility studies.   Independently performs assignments with instruction limited to results expected.   Researches defects

Re: [U2] Sleeping in Basic

2012-12-27 Thread Don Robinson
Doug,   If Universe, look at NAP, it does milliseconds.   Can't remember what it is in Unidata, maybe SLEEPM?   Don   From: Doug Farmer To: 'U2 Users List' Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 4:56 PM Subject: [U2] Sleeping in Basic Happy holidays all, I just want to make sure I did not miss so

[U2] How to create an entry in the Universe errlog file?

2012-11-02 Thread Don Robinson
r a valid print queue but I can by reading the &DEVICE& file and displaying a message to the user.   The problem is this can occurs in processes that log to COMO or PH and looking through a bunch of these is a pain.   If I could write directly to the errlog file it would be much easier.

Re: [U2] Another job ad written by people who have no clue

2012-11-01 Thread Don Robinson
lse" and when the employer won't pay for you to go, what do you do? I understand it costs a lot but not being properly trained costs too. It seems a lot of employers want someone with specific experience instead of looking at your potential and ambition. Regards, Don Robinson

Re: [U2] Consuming Web Services

2012-10-05 Thread Don Robinson
enefit but .   I expermented with combining 3 attributes to reduce the max count to around 100,000 but the boss isn't willing to try again.     Don Robinson --- From: Brian Leach To: 'U2 Users List' Sent: Friday, October 5,

Re: [U2] Etymology of "Q-Pointer"

2012-09-06 Thread Don Robinson
Charles, My guess is Quick as in a quick link to another account. Don Robinson From: Charles Stevenson To: U2 Users List Sent: Thursday, September 6, 2012 10:19 PM Subject: [U2] Etymology of "Q-Pointer" A newbie stumped me:  Why are "Q-Pointers"  "Q" p

Re: [U2] Variable Interpolation

2012-08-24 Thread Don Robinson
f code using ; to separate statements including FOR ... NEXT and LOOP ... REPEAT.   Code is free as long as you don't critisize it.   Don Robinson From: Wjhonson To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:38 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Variable Interpolation The impression

Re: [U2] Detecting idle time in INPUT statement.

2012-03-27 Thread Don Robinson
educe user aggravation and calls to the support group. We shall see how the time out thing work outs. Thnaks, Don Robinson From: Wjhonson To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org; dgr...@dagconsulting.com Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 3:37 PM Subject: Re: [U2] Detecting idle time in INPUT statement.

Re: [U2] Detecting idle time in INPUT statement.

2012-03-27 Thread Don Robinson
David,   Good idea.   Revised code.   * Don Robinson * Testing the INPUTIF statement. * PROMPT '' * ZZ = '' FOR X = 1 TO 100  ;* Loop for 10 seconds.    INPUTIF ZZ THEN EXIT    NAP 100 NEXT X * IF ZZ = '' THEN    CRT 'The user is sleeping'    STOP

Re: [U2] Detecting idle time in INPUT statement.

2012-03-27 Thread Don Robinson
they type one character, the INPUTIF will wait forever on the Enter key but this isn't too likely.   The following code does this pretty well.   * Don Robinson * Testing the INPUTIF statement. * PROMPT '' * ZZ = '' TIME.OUT.TIME = INT(TIME()) + 10  ;* Wait 10 seconds. LOO

[U2] Detecting idle time in INPUT statement.

2012-03-27 Thread Don Robinson
but I can't find anything about this in the UV manual.   Thanks, Don Robinson ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] Turn a device and inode into file name

2012-03-16 Thread Don Robinson
Try "ls -li |grep inode#" in the directory where the file is likley to be or "ls -liR / |grep inode#" to look everythere.   You may need root permissions to check some files.   NO warranty!   Don Robinson From: Wjhonson To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Friday, Ma

Re: [U2] Databasic conversion

2011-04-14 Thread Don Robinson
inherited a D3 system and it's awful switching between it and Universe because of all the differences. Not to disappoint you, just my 2 cents. Don Robinson Universe and D3 programmer. From: Symeon Breen To: U2 Users List Sent: Wed, April 6, 2011 5:1

Re: [U2] Git and U2

2011-03-02 Thread Don Robinson
David My favorite is Perforce. It' not open source but a two user, five workspace version is free. I use one workspace on development and one on production so five is plenty for me. It is not MV aware but I've used it with Unidata, Universe and jBASE. It has command line and GUI interfaces for

Re: [U2] Sockets problem

2011-01-10 Thread Don Robinson
David, 1024 and below are considered "well known" ports and are reserved for things like telnet, ftp, http, etc. You need to be careful assigning private ports so you don't tramp on other assignments. netstat will show you your current assignments.

Re: [U2] [UV] PORT.STATUS questions.

2011-01-03 Thread Don Robinson
Manu, Correction. The SYSTEM(1301) is really SYSTEM(1302) in GET.USERS.B. It only returns info for your login id not all users.  Don From: Don Robinson To: U2 Users List Sent: Mon, January 3, 2011 1:06:41 PM Subject: Re: [U2] [UV] PORT.STATUS questions

Re: [U2] [UV] PORT.STATUS questions.

2011-01-03 Thread Don Robinson
Manu, The INTERNAL option looks promising for what I need. I do read manuals but somehow missed it. It doesn't solve the "One user at a time" issue but will make parsing the output easier. Your other suggestions may be useful, too. Thanks to you and the others that responde

[U2] [UV] PORT.STATUS questions.

2010-12-30 Thread Don Robinson
o but in a more usable format. Also, PORT.STATUS from within Universe gives an error for options like PID and FILEMAP but works ok from the AIX prompt, why? Thanks in advance, Don Robinson ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2u

Re: [U2] ViaDuct problem

2010-12-27 Thread Don Robinson
you do it wrong, it gets a little slow. As with any tool, it takes a few wrong turns to get it right. I have never used Viaduct so I don't have any idea if the Accuterm subroutines are similar. Contact me off list if you want. Good luck,  Don Robinson

Re: [U2] how to round to 2 decimals?

2010-10-14 Thread Don Robinson
:-) Yep, no one would notice a half cent!!  Don Robinson From: George Gallen To: U2 Users List Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 2:07:00 PM Subject: Re: [U2] how to round to 2 decimals? so, when the bank rounds everyones bank balances down the cent, the system

Re: [U2] how to round to 2 decimals?

2010-10-14 Thread Don Robinson
so run the OCONV(ICONV(21632.468,'MD2'),'MD2') version and it took 5.1 seconds. My point: There is more than one way to skin a cat! Don Robinson   From: Chris Austin To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 12:34:36 PM Sub

[U2] Don Robinson is available for part time work.

2010-07-22 Thread Don Robinson
, Perforce source control and Accuterm GUI screen programming. I live in Cincinnati, Ohio. I have speed internet for remote access and can handle an occasional on-site visit. If interested, contact me directly at donr_w...@yahoo.com or the number below. Thanks, Don Robinson 513-706-

Re: [U2] Copying Universe files with an Index.

2010-07-01 Thread Don Robinson
Perry, THANKS! I just didn't look in the right manual, it's in userref. Don Robinson   From: Perry Taylor To: U2 Users List Sent: Thu, July 1, 2010 9:27:49 AM Subject: Re: [U2] Copying Universe files with an Index. Have a look at the SET.IND

[U2] Copying Universe files with an Index.

2010-07-01 Thread Don Robinson
e the problem is due to Universe storing the full path to the Index files in the header of the data file. Is there anyway to "fix" the header without corrupting the file? What's the best way to handle this?   Thanks, Don Robinson ___ U2-Users m

Re: [U2] Printing images

2010-05-12 Thread Don Robinson
Harold, If you or someone else can pay for it, Print Wizard will do the job plus a lot more. If this isn't an option, then a couple of observations about the code the other person give you. I have been working to get a full page overlay to print. To create the overlay image, I setup a print

Re: [U2] Writeseq - getting to the EOF

2010-03-24 Thread Don Robinson
George, Have you tried the SEEK statement, ie, SEEK filehandle, 0 , 2 The 0 (zero) is the offset and the 2 is "relative to the end of the file". Caution, untested code!   Good luck, Don Robinson From: George Gallen To: U2 Users List Sent: Wed

Re: [U2] AccuTerm File Transfer

2010-02-15 Thread Don Robinson
the data back into the server and save it, etc.   DISCLAIMER! Some of this is from memory so there is no guarantee.   See http://www.asent.com/ for more info. Contact Peter Schellenbach, he's been very helpful to me. Good luck, Don Robinson ___ U2-Users mailing list U2-Users@listserver.u2ug.org http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users

Re: [U2] U2UG Elections

2010-02-04 Thread Don Robinson
Are you logging into mvopen.org? Cheers, Don Robinson From: Symeon Breen To: U2 Users List Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 4:24:07 PM Subject: Re: [U2] U2UG Elections Sorry it is deffo not there ! -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun

Re: [U2] Converting from mvBase to Universe

2009-07-22 Thread Don Robinson
deas so contact me directly and I may be able to help you. Don Robinson donr_w...@yahoo.com From: Curt Stewart To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 5:43:05 PM Subject: [U2] Converting from mvBase to Universe I have a client that is con

Re: [U2] Another probably simple SB+ issue.

2009-05-07 Thread Don Robinson
Jeff, >> Of course the goal here, according to management, is to >> migrate to Oracle so that's probably a moot point. You will have much BIGGER problems then! ;-) Don Robinson 513-706-6149 (Cell) donr_w...@yahoo.com From: Jeff Ritc

Re: [U2] U2 Application / Solutions providers list? "PICK / U2 Hits"? Any "ERP Light" applications out there?

2009-04-21 Thread Don Robinson
he 70's or 80's. The president is Suresh Anbil. They have a number of modules for a range of manufacturing companies. Regards, Don Robinson From: Norman Morgan To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 4:51:05 PM Subject: RE: [

Re: [U2] U2 Application / Solutions providers list? "PICK / U2 Hits"? Any "ERP Light" applications out there?

2009-04-21 Thread Don Robinson
like it for a long time. Maybe Spectrum could/should do one. I know of another package (not mine) that is available on a sort of "one of a kind" basis, contact me directly at donr_w...@yahoo.com if interested. Regards, Don Robinson 513-706-6149 (Cell)

[U2] UV to SAP migration disaster

2009-04-20 Thread Don Robinson
er mouse trap, why doesn't the world know it? Just, my 2 cents worth. BTW, I'm looking for programming work! Universe, Unidata, jBASE, etc. Linux, Aix, Windows, Mac. Don Robinson donr_w...@yahoo.com From: John Hester To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.or

Re: [U2] Multiple columns from a LIST statement?

2008-07-16 Thread Don Robinson
S/AMCLFQ*0LOGOFF . . . The LIST-LABEL command allows sorting, selecting, etc. Good luck, Don Robinson Ashwood Computer Co. 513-563-2800 - Original Message From: Edward Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2