USER command newbie

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Walter Vaughan <wvaughan at steelerubber.com> wrote:

> What is the proper alignment in the stars to learn
> how to use USER properly?
> 
> Just for testing purposes I have in a sample file's
> input processing table @key 
> processing like the following:
> 
> ::user phone = /usr/local/bin/ssh ff at facetphone
> /usr/facetphone_utapi/bin/fp_cid 
> -n -s -u person:
> ::phone = ph:
> ::msgbox ph:
> 
> What seems odd to me is
> 1) why cannot the user command be called from a
> variable?
> 2) why does "ph" only contain data for the first
> time it is encountered on a 
> processing table? Moving record to record, ph is
> blank every time the user 
> command is run. I could see that if I stayed on the
> same record, but moving from 
> record to record?
> 
> SSH is configured properly... the command runs just
> fine from the command line.
> _______________________________________________

I don't know why on #1, but on #2 it looks like you
need to reverse your assignment.  ph should be on the
left hand side of the equal sign if you are trying to
access the output of the "phone" user command.  

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest ways to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.


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