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As is so unfortunately typical of FP code, it's pretty bad stuff. That's not FP's fault, maybe it's not any body's fault. The language doesn't encourage bad programming, but it doesn't discourage it either. However, the stuff basically worked. They wanted a few changes, so for the past few years I've added little stuff here and there. The last time I made any changes was about six months back, and that was just a new report to produce CSV files. And then..
| Title | Date | Comments | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moving an old SCO Unix Filepro box | 2012 08 | 2012/09/18 TonyLawrence | |||
| - She thought she wanted to put a public IP address on this old SCO box. Fortunately, no one was able to help her with that. - | |||||
| Why I love Unix | 2009 03 | ||||
| - Why I hate Windows and love Unix - I first saw Unix an 1981 and fell in love instantly. - | |||||
| Another Filepro Conversion | 2008 11 | 2011/04/29 TonyLawrence | |||
| - I had set the printer as "RAW" in cups but it needed to be 66 lines per page. To solve that, I put in a System V script. - | |||||
| Filepro spaghetti | 2007 12 | ||||
| - Programming with Filepro is very difficult and you'll often find very, very bad code too. - | |||||
| Filepro conversion part 2 | 2006 07 | ||||
| - The next day things were going well enough that they wanted to do some printed reports. - | |||||
| Filepro conversion | 2006 07 | ||||
| - Converting Filepro from Windows to Linux - Reports that used to run overnight now take seconds! - | |||||
| Installing SCO OSR5.0.5 | 1998 10 | ||||
| - This is an old post about installing SCO Unix 5.0.5 and is only left here for historical purposes. - | |||||
| panner num-lock on-off -->Re Panner Num Lock (on/off)problem | 1997-2004 | ||||
| - panner num-lock on-off -->Re: Panner: Num Lock (on/off)problem - | |||||
| linux filepro termcap G1 G2 -->Re Linux termcap inSCO_OSR5.x.x | 1997-2004 | ||||
| - linux filepro termcap G1 G2 -->Re: Linux termcap inOSR5.x.x - | |||||
| converting url-encoded | 1997-2004 | ||||
| - I would not use sed for this though because you'll be forever adding odd new codes as you encounter them for the first time. - | |||||
| tr vs. sed url-encoded | 1997-2004 | ||||
| - This appears to be url-encoded content, you may be interested to know there are utilities and code snippets in various languages already designed just for the purpose of url en/de-coding. - | |||||
| filepro tokenization table is too small Use '-t biggersize'to make it bigger. | 1997-2004 | ||||
| - Why don't you just put PFAUTOKSIZE=200000 and PFTOKSIZE=200000 in the config file and be done with it? - | |||||
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| scoansi console differences filepro | 1997-2004 | ||||
| - scoansi console differences filepro - | |||||
| Pads text files to fixed length records | 1997 | ||||
| - Padding text to fixed length was at one time very useful for Filepro work I was doing; it is probably not today, but who knows? - | |||||
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