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From: wollman@hal.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman)
Subject: Ange-FTP (was Re: NCFTP)
Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:26:52 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.080140.17774@imada.ou.dk> ravn@imada.ou.dk (Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen) writes:
>If you use Emacs with Ange-ftp (unix-flavour only?) you will find that
>at least point 2 and 3 are present.  It also allows the
>machine:/whatever method of doing ftp.  I use it all the time, and it is
>great for browsing a server, marking all the wanted files, and getting
>them all in one go, while doing something else.

How many other Emacs maintainers are there out there who always dump
ange-ftp into their executables?  Every single Emacs and Epoch I build
always gets Ange-FTP and Tree Dired; I wouldn't live without them.

-GAWollman

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From: andy@meefun.autodesk.com (Andrew Purshottam)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
Subject: problem with rkive2
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:57:43 GMT
Organization: Autodesk Inc.

Hi, I am happy user of rkive2, using it to archive
postings to the news.answers group. However, when
a faq posting to news.answers changes from a 
single file to a directory with subfiles, I find
that archiving fails until the old single file
is deleted. 

This seems pretty easy to fix, but before I fight
with the source, I am wondering if anyone has
patched rkive for this before. Thanks, Andy
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Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
From: ravn@imada.ou.dk (Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen)
Subject: Re: NCFTP
Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 08:01:40 GMT

gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:

>Still, ncftp(1) is a *considerable* advance over normal ftp(1).  Now
>all we need is:
> --> history
> --> completion :-)
> --> remembering of *all* directories
> --> gnu readline interface
> --> comprehension of new ftpd abilities

If you use Emacs with Ange-ftp (unix-flavour only?) you will find that
at least point 2 and 3 are present.  It also allows the
machine:/whatever method of doing ftp.  I use it all the time, and it is
great for browsing a server, marking all the wanted files, and getting
them all in one go, while doing something else.

It is, however, requiering you to use Yet Another Editor.  This limits
its usabillity somewhat.  :-(
-- 
Thorbj{\o}rn Andersen 
ravn@imada.ou.dk      
 
                       
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From: tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin,comp.emacs
Subject: Re: Ange-FTP (was Re: NCFTP)
Followup-To: comp.emacs
Date: 25 Jan 1993 01:51:28 -0600
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hilbert.math.ksu.edu

[ Distribution: comp changed to "world"; followups set to comp.emacs ]

wollman@hal.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:

>How many other Emacs maintainers are there out there who always dump
>ange-ftp into their executables?  Every single Emacs and Epoch I build
>always gets Ange-FTP and Tree Dired; I wouldn't live without them.

;; site-init.el created by tar
;; Last modified 9 November 1992 by tar: for 18.59

;; Prompt before executing local variables section.  Local variables are
;; major security risks since 1) they appear at the bottom of the file,
;; which is usually out of sight and 2) they can do anything emacs can
;; do, including running shell commands.
(setq inhibit-local-variables t)

;; News is in a non-standard place
(setq news-path "/news/spool/news/")

;; Load some non-default packages into Emacs

;; VM, a "mail user agent" (mail reader)
(load "vm")

;; Supercite, a mail/news citing package
(load "sc")

;; Calc, a calculator package
(load "calc")
(load "macedit")

;; Ange-ftp -- allows transparent editing via FTP
(load "ange-ftp")

;; Calendar/Holiday/Diary
(load "holidays")
(load "calendar")
(load "diary")
(load "appt")

hilbert% l -g emacs  # a Sun 4/330 running 4.1.1
1928 -rwxr-xr-x  2 root     staff     1966080 Nov  9 20:00 emacs

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From: csc@pilot.njin.net (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
Subject: Re: FSP and anonymous FTP.
Date: 21 Jan 93 16:17:34 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

Okay, I give up. What's a "warez"?

Sean
From: tnnrtg@tnb.phys.tue.nl (Tonnie Geraets)
Newsgroups: comp.archives.admin
Subject: Re: NCFTP
Date: 25 Jan 93 13:23:08 GMT
Reply-To: tnnrtg@ctrl.phys.tue.nl
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology - NL

gnat@kauri.vuw.ac.nz (Nathan Torkington) writes:
[about NcFTP]
>Yeah, but it has problems -- it doesn't work well with the
>wuarchive-style ftpd, which will do automagic tar/Z-ing of dirs/files
>on the fly.  ncftp(1) seems to check if the thing to be gotten exists
>before getting it (this is because if the :/foo/bar is a directory, it
>will cd to that directory; if it's a file, it will get it).

Have you reported this problem to the author? If not, please do so. I'm
under the impression that the author, Michael Gleason
(mgleason@cse.unl.edu), is very willing to fix bugs and to add usefull
features.

[...]

>Nat :-)

-Tonnie.

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From: someday@hardy.u.washington.edu (Scott Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Revelation paint -- Define Page
Keywords: Revelation Paint
Date: 27 Jan 93 03:25:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: shelley.1k4vc6INN4e8
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
NNTP-Posting-Host: hardy.u.washington.edu

In article <> DTodd@massey.ac.nz (D.M. Todd) writes:
>Cliff,
>
>You hit the nail on the head on my "define page" problem.  If there
>is a label in the area that is selected, you just get a 4 option
>popup on F2 (object options: drag, color, copy, delete).  Guess I'll
>have to move all my labels off the screen to define pages.
>
>David

David,

Hang on a minute, you don't need to move anything!  Just UN-highlight
those labels, then hit [F2].  This will give the "Prompt Options"
popup you want.

You can unhighlight those labels by driving to them with the arrow
keys and hitting [Spacebar].  Or just be careful to only include
prompt labels and/or entry areas when you initially use the mouse to
select everything on the page.  Or use the "Select" choice on the
"Edit" menu to tag the prompts by name.
From: cxf12@po.CWRU.Edu (Christopher Fenton)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: How does ones...
Date: 23 Jan 1993 14:11:54 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


...create a numeric field in DBASE III that doesn't truncated the
leading zeros???  Is there a way to fill the leading space with
zeros???  I'd make the field a character field, but the numbers
get processed further down the line and it create a whole bunch
of data type mismatches.  Any ideas???

	Thanx...

	C. H. Fenton


-- 
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Case Western Reserve Univ.                         --- The Gang of 4
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 11:07:33 CST
From: <U58373@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: FLIMPORT equivalent for Pdox 4.0??

I am downloading large ascii fixed-length data files from our IBM mainframe
and need to import these into Paradox 4.0 tables.  The record and field
lengths of the ascii files are fixed (not comma or space delimited).

I have discovered that Pdox 3.5 has a utility called FLIMPORT.EXE which
allows you to basically create a file-definition template by providing
the the starting position and length of each ascii field and the name and
file type of the corresponding Paradox table field. This seems at first
glance to be pretty handy.


However, I have 2 questions:

1) Why is there no FLIMPORT equivalent supplied with Pdox 4.0?

2) From your experience, what is the best way to import these types of
   ascii files, i.e. is there a better way than using FLIMPORT?

Thanks in advance.
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Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: leon@objy18.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Leon Guzenda)
Subject: Re: New Group for OODBMS
Organization: Objectivity Inc.
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 02:20:59 GMT

I'm also in favor of comp.databases.object.  Most of the ODBMS work, with the exception of
academia and the ODMG, is going on behind closed doors.  It would be nice to be able to
widen the discussion of ODBMS issues without having to wade through the broad spectrum of
news/queries which appear in comp.databases.

Leon Guzenda
Objectivity, Inc.
leon@objy.com
From: sti@po.CWRU.Edu (Stephen T. Ingalls)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Pdox/Win
Date: 22 Jan 1993 01:31:33 GMT
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc5.ins.cwru.edu


Last night at the Cleveland Paradox Users Group meeting a guy
said that Borland had taken his order for Pdox for Windows earlier
that day.  The particulars were $139 and a promised February 1
shipping date.  They offered to sell him both Pdox/win and Quattro
Pro for Windows for $200.

Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: labamba@sdf.lonestar.org (Peter Steiger)
Subject: Re: Clipper under Windows
Organization: sdf public access Unix, Dallas -- 214-436-3281
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:19:28 GMT

> Grumpfish has recently released Clip4Win, a product similar to
> Dolce Vita.  It lets Clipper programs run as Windows programs.

Mike, I just saw Clip4Win's ad this month (it was not in the December
Databased Advisor).  It didn't make clear whether that product provides
a true GUI with Clipper access to .DLLs the way Dolce Vita does.  Can
you tell from the demo if it's a true Windows environment or just a
Windows kludge of a text environment?

If Clip4Win does real windowing and not just CUA (the way Provision:Windows
does), I'd be more inclined to trust a Greg Lief product.  I, too, was 
disconcerted by the two database engines that invited themselves onto my
desktop when I fired up the DV demo.

pbs
From: accdak@vaxa.hofstra.edu
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Another Foxpro Screen Builder Question
Date: 20 Jan 93 22:02:23 EST

I used the Foxpro screen builder to create a grid (it's a calendar).  Each
field in the grid is a field in a temporary database. The up arrow key moves
the cursor to the field to the left.  Pressing the down arrow key moves the
cursor to the field to the left. 

I wanted the down arrow to move the cursor into the field directly below in the
grid.  Pressing the up arrow key would move the cursor into the field above.

I was able to do this with a WHEN clause which checks for a "screen index"
or a mouse click and a function call (described below) in the VALID
clause of each field in the grid.  It works very very slowly.  Has anyone
done this or know where I can find code examples for this?

The VALID function checks to see checks for the last key pressed.  Based on
that, the "screen index" is updated based on the current "screen Index".  d.

The WHEN clause checks to see if the "screen index" is the ok for the field or
if the last key was actually a mouse click.  If the mouse was used, instead of
the keyboard, a new "screen index"  is calculated from the screen position. 

The grid has 5 row and 7 fields in each row.  Is it just the size of the code
which has to be run though which makes it so slow?  (I'm running Foxpro2 on
a 486/25Mhz machine.

David     ACCDAK@vaxc.hofstra.edu         - Internet
          ACCDAK@HOFSTRA                  - BITNET
From: balajir@cs.tamu.edu (Balaji Rathakrishnan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Looking for SQL Interpreter source code
Date: 21 Jan 1993 16:55:10 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc12.cs.tamu.edu
Keywords: SQL, interpreter

Does anyone know of any SQL interpreters (source code) available in the
public domain? If so, please inform me at balajir@cs.tamu.edu.

Thanks,
Balaji Rathakrishnan
Dept. of Computer Science
Texas A&M University.

Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: gcody@gandalf.ca (Gord Cody)
Subject: comments wanted on MAGIC
Keywords: MAGIC,UNIX,SCO
Organization: Gandalf Data Ltd.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 13:11:28 GMT

Hi all. Apologies if this is not the proper forum. 
Our management has heard about a development system called
MAGIC. A (supposedly) code free application development system. 
I would like to here any and all comments both good and bad 
about this system.

What can it do, not do?
What type of application(s) it was used to develop?
Strengths, weaknesses?
Training?
Support?
Any other relevant information you can supply.

I will, of course, summarize the responses.
Thanks

Gord Cody - all opinions are MINE,MINE,MINE #$@%^#!##:^)  gcody@gandalf.ca
Gandalf Mobile Systems Inc. - the company has its own     613-723-6500 x 8817
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Newsgroups: comp.databases,misc.entrepreneurs
From: IMAGING.CLUB@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Imaging Club")
Subject: Re: Running an antiques business with an RDBMS
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:13:36 GMT

I've mailed out photocopies of this article to everyone who
asked for one.  There were quite a lot of people interested
in the article.  Let me know if I missed anyone.  What might
people think of the article? ---Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
---------------------------------------------------------------
The current issue of the national Maine Antiques Digest has a
lengthy, practical article on how to run an antiques business
using an RDBMS.  If anyone would like me to airmail them
a copy of the article, please send me your US/International
airmail address.  (This article has nothing to do with
either the Wang RDBMS, OPEN PACE, or document imaging.)
The article is much too long to rekey, and I'm not using
intelligent character recognition at this workstation.

This article might be of interest also to people wishing to
do some part time RDBMS consulting.

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
From: welling@let.rug.nl (George Welling)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: What is an OODBMS?
Date: 21 Jan 93 15:21:54 GMT
Organization: Faculteit der Letteren, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL

In article <1993Jan21.120320.5992@fwi.uva.nl> timmer@fwi.uva.nl (Ralf Timmer (I89)) writes:
>Hi,
>
>My question is in the subject!
>
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From: etoaj@storeulv.etn.ericsson.se (Are Jrgensen)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: clarion 3.0 => 2.1 compatibility
Date: 27 Jan 93 10:05:14 GMT
Distribution: comp.databases
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AS


I have recently received some information about clarion 3.0 from the
Norwegian distributer, but it do not claims that 3.0 will be able to read
and compile applications written in 2.1  It does not claim the
conterary either, but it makes one wonder.....

Does anybody have information about this??

Regards
Are
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: michaelh@g2syd.genasys.com.au (Michael Haldey)
Subject: Re: picking between FoxPro and Paradox
Keywords: help
Organization: Genasys II, Sydney, Australia
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 01:47:32 GMT

In article <troj.728016494@cwis> troj@cwis.unomaha.edu (Kevin Trojanowski) writes:
>hh2x@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (Danish) writes:
>
>>I'm working with a group on a large (10k+ lines) C program that manipulates
>>large amounts of data in various ways. We want to buy a database so that we
>>can perform some more standard manipulations on our output data. The main
>>thing is sorting the data quickly on any field. Which program -- Foxpro or
>>Paradox, or is there something faster I haven't heard of yet-- is faster
>>when sorting huge data files up to 150 meg? can they both handle files of
>>this size? if not, which handles larger files, and what are their limitations?
>
>>If Foxpro and Paradox are equal in this respect, then it would be helpful
>>to know which one is easier to manipulate. Half of us are c programmers who
>>could get by either way, but the other half might be aided by an easier
>>interface... which program makes this easier to provide?
>
>FoxPro is a dBase derivative, and I've never been a big fan of dBase.
>Actually, a more accurate assessment would be to say I loathe it.  But
>anyway...
>
>If you go with Paradox, you gain an easy advantage, in that you can purchase
>the Paradox Engine, and have your C code directly access the Paradox tables.
>What this allows you to do is write part of your application in PAL
>(Paradox Application Language), and have it run external C programs when
>necessary, but still allow the C code full access to the data without
>having to go through the overhead of exporting/importing the data.
>

Unfortunately, with Paradox you loose a lot. If you decide to port your
code somewhere and not to be limited by one product line, I'd suggest to
use a dBase flavour. Depending on intentions you FoxPro, Clipper, or CodeBase
may be used. Please do not forget, that xBase is a standard for PC
world as SQL for UNIX-mainframe.

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From: musa@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu (Jafar Musa - Business Faculty)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: media-objects database
Date: 23 Jan 93 22:05:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: serval.1993Jan23.220559.28515
Distribution: usa
Organization: Washington State University
Originator: musa@wsuaix.csc.wsu.edu

Hello there;
We are looking for a platform that allows us to create, store,
delete and manipulate media objects.

What we are really looking for is a platform to support classroom instructions
and bring MM to the class room.
Faculty should be able (or assisted since faculty tend to refuse to learn)
to create presentations by adding modifying or retrieving media objects.
We are looking for a multi-user platform and possibly a distributed one where
different departments maintain their objects, while there is capabilities to 
share their objects with different dept.
An excellent platform will be a distributed one with a centralized valid set
of commonly needed objects across depts.
Some how we should be able to build presentation systems on top.
Any ideas or info will be greatly appreciated

musa@wsuaix.csc.wsu
Washington State Univ.
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: ???base
From: lamastus@speedway7.dab.ge.com (Patrick Lamastus)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:26:03 GMT
Organization: GE Simulation & Control Systems

Hi!,

I am looking for a shareware C source code that would help me to
read different DataBases like Dbase IV, Exell, Lotus, etc., and then
export the data to an ascii file.


Thanks in advance,

Patrick
lamastus@sunny.dab.ge.com
Newsgroups: comp.databases
From: moursand@lonestar.utsa.edu (Bowen M. Moursund)
Subject: Re: dBASE IV problem
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 23:12:35 GMT

In article <1993Jan21.212859.20703@cs.wm.edu> weiss@cs.wm.edu (David W. Weiss) writes:
>
>
>Following are a couple of procedures from a dBASE program
>I wrote. It is part of a screen where a user enters some
>information into memory variables. It issupposed to allow
>the user to hit F1 and get a pop-up window of possible values
>and then select one value from that window. It works great if
>they just type a value directly into the field or type nothing
>in the field and just select a value using the pop-up window.
>However, if they start to type something in the field and then
>instead use the pop-up window and select a value the variable
>will contain the typed value instead of what was selected from
>the window. I think it has something to do with how the READ
>command works but I haven't been able to get around it.
>Any suggestions or am I out of luck.
>
>
>
>PROCEDURE Getrest
>ON KEY LABEL F1 DO FieldHelp
>@ 12,25 GET mLocality PICTURE "!!" ;
>  MESSAGE "Press <F1> to see Localitys lookup list" COLOR B/W
>READ
>ON KEY
>RETURN
>
>PROCEDURE Fieldhelp
>USE Localitys
>DEFINE POPUP Locs FROM 11,28 TO 17,60 MESSAGE;
>  "Use up and down arrow keys to highlight menu choice and press <Enter>"
>n = 1
>SCAN
>    DEFINE BAR n OF Locs PROMPT Locality + " " + Loctext
>    n = n + 1
>ENDSCAN
>ON SELECTION POPUP Locs DO Locselect
>ACTIVATE POPUP Locs
>@ 12,25 SAY mLocality COLOR GR+/W
>CLOSE DATABASES
>RETURN
>
>PROCEDURE Locselect
>GOTO BAR()
>mLocality = Locality
>DEACTIVATE POPUP
>RETURN

Dave: Try something like this:

PROCEDURE LocSelect
keyboard chr(26)+chr(25)+right(prompt(),2)
deactivate popup
RETURN


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