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Here you can find some utilities,
tricks and tips that may be of some use to you
if you use Progress or MFG/PRO.
The utilities are either open-source
or demo/evaluation versions of Varacom software
and are subject to the enclose license agreement.
| Prowhich
(Unix which type command for Progress) |
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Many Unix developers have become
accustomed to using the which commmand
that searches the PATH environement variable
for a file or command.
Prowhich is a simple unix shell
script that searches the PROPATH for a
given filename.
eg.
$ echo $PROPATH
.:/usr1/dev/src:/usr1/test/src:/usr1/live/src:/usr/dlc
$ pwd
/home/smp
$ prowhich custmaint.p
/usr1/test/src/custmaint.p
$ vi `prowhich custmaint.p`
You can download prowhich
by clicking here.
TIP: if you're vi'ing
a file, and you come to an include file that you
want to drill down into, but you're not sure where
it is in your PROPATH, then simply type:-
:!vi `prowhich include.i`
and you will execute a sub-shell
that will vi the correct version of the file include.i
that has automatically be located in your PROPATH.
When you exit this sub-shell, you return to the
original file that you were vi'ing.
| MFG/PRO
Control Record Maintenance |
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This is an open-source
utility that you can use to maintain arbitary
control record information for an MFG/PRO database.
This is simple maintenance procedre
for the usrw_wkfl table. The Key 1 (ie,
usrw_key1) field is automatically set to the
value SZCTRLMT and then the user can create,
delete and update records by entering a value
for Key 2 (ie, usrw_key2) to make the record
unique.
Then you can find the usrw_wkfl
record in your custom MFG/PRO code using the key
1 and key 2 values and reference and of the available
fields. The Descripiton field is usually
used to describe the purpose of the control record,
and possibly with field should be updated (eg.
"Enter the log directory value in Chr[1]".)
It should work with nearly any
version of MFG/PRO that runs in a ChUI environment,
and if you want to, you should be able to use
the QAD GUI-converter program to make it work
in a GUI environment.
Here is a screen shot of this
utility in action:-
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