How does one setup a q-pointer to a file in the windows system. For example,
say, c:\contacts ?

"Concerned Netizen" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) com> wrote

netizen-

OpenQM has multiple ways to "point" to a data file outside of QM.

You can create a 'Directory' type file using an explicit path within the
available file system, which will then be available within QMBasic using
normal Open, Read, Write commands, (see "CREATE-FILE" command.) Directory
type files have no dictionaries (VOCs) and cannot be reported upon using
English/Access from TCL.

Also you can specify a 'Q' type file pointer where attr<2>=Account or Path,
attr<3>=File name in Account, attr<4>=Server name (QMNet connections only).
I believe these will have Directory type file limitations, if they reside
outside the file system.

See OpenQM documentation for more details. Note: as with most MV flavors,
if you read data from an outside source, it is highly recommended to run an
'MCP' conversion (or equivalent) on the data before actually doing anything
with it inside the DBMS.

Hope that helps... If not, try the OpenQM forum on Google Groups.

BFaux

Thanks, I went over the documentation, but I don't seem to see if or how OpenQm could sort an existing directory. Can it?

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"B Faux" <nospam (AT) nospam (DOT) net> wrote

Goo'day,

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 05:22:38 GMT, "Concerned_Netizen"
<Concerned_netizen (AT) WhydontIgetspamanymore (DOT) net> wrote:

If I understand the question properly, what's wrong with !SORT ??

HTH
Regards,

Bruce Nichol
Talon Computer Services
ALBURY NSW Australia

http://www.taloncs.com.au

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is....

I'd be happy to use sort on a directory i could point to which was a native windows directory. The question I was trying to proffer was, er, how do i make a directory that was native to windows visible to SORT in openqm.

In D3 it was easy...

One would set up what was called a super q-pointer to into the file system, and we wouldn't use the set-file verb and heaven forfend using create file since the target existed already......
an example using later implementations of d3 linux might be accomplished mearly by creating the following ..

root
001 q
002
003 /
004
005
006
007
008
009 L
010 10

and then saying at the command line...

sort root <enter>

Can anyone do something like this with the directory c:\contacts on an xp box using OpenQM?





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"Bruce Nichol" <reverse_ecurb (AT) taloncs (DOT) com.au> wrote

The entry on my VOC for a Windows directory looks like

000 C.PROGRAMS
001 F
002 C:\PROGRAMS

So if all else fails you could construct an item like this by means of
the editor

Regards

Malcolm Bull

Goo'day,

Ah! Now I think I understand....

On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 07:23:56 GMT, "Concerned_Netizen"
<Concerned_netizen (AT) WhydontIgetspamanymore (DOT) net> wrote:

In OpenQM it's even easier. There's a configuration parameter
FILERULE which "allows additive rules for file names":

1 = Allow Account:File
2 = Allow Server:Account:file (QMNet)
4 = Allow PATHathname

so if config FILERULE is set to 4 or higher, one can

SORT PATH:e:\downloads\qm<Enter> and get a result like:

SORT PATH:E:\DOWNLOADS\QM ... Page 1
PATH:E:\DOWNLOADS\QM
051231.CSV
QM-AT-COLOUR.ZIP
QMCLIENT_JAVA.ZIP
QMCLIENT_NET.ZIP
QMDOCS_2-1-13.ZIP
QMDOCS_2-1-14.ZIP
QMDOCS_2-1-5.EXE
QMWEB-WIN-2006-03-03.ZIP
QM_2-1-11.EXE
QM_2-1-12.EXE
QM_2-1-13.EXE
QM_2-1-14.EXE
QM_2-2-0.EXE
QM_2-2-10.EXE
QM_2-2-11.EXE
QM_2-2-12.EXE
QM_2-2-13.EXE
QM_2-2-14.EXE
QM_2-2-15.EXE....
:

HTH
Regards,

Bruce Nichol
Talon Computer Services
ALBURY NSW Australia

http://www.taloncs.com.au

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is....

where in the documentation would I find information on how to set up configuration parameters and FILERULE. I sure can't seem to find them by typing HELP FILERULE

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"Bruce Nichol" <reverse_ecurb (AT) taloncs (DOT) com.au> wrote

Concerned_Netizen wrote:
Try section 17 of intro.pdf "Configuration Parameters" or
http://qmweb.cdmiweb.com/qmv/qmdocs/docssearch.htm or
http://www.nuwiki.com/cgi-bin/nuwiki...20PARAME TERS