Tokenization size and the "pig"...

[John Esak]

I've put up a couple messages now about PFTOKSIZE... (maybe only one, can't
remember). In any case, I have sent out several to people who are running
the pig code. I've been saying that PFFORMTOKSIZE should be set to about
80000. That is just because this is where it was set on my freeBSD system,
not becuase the pig code requires it. Just for grins I tried lowering it and
lowering it to see what it really had to be in order for the "pig" CALL
table to work. Turns out that with no other tokenization variables set at
all, the magic number is 15872. Anything lower and no go. As I said earlier,
there isn't any performance hit seen on most newer systems if these
variables are set pretty high. (Newer systems in this case means those with
standard memory levels installed. It's so cheap these days, the more the
better, but I never even saw any performance problems on older systems with
only 128MB of memory and umpteen users... so, it is just not a problem.) The
filePro stuff just all works without any problems if you set these to some
values that work for your applications. So, I still suggest 100000 for all
three tok size variables as a good starting point for most code. Change them
as and if you get warning messages.

  PFTOKSIZ=100000
  PFAUTOKSIZE=100000
  PFFORMTOKSIZE=100000

The PFFORMTOKSIZE variable is the one which governs both CALL tables _and_
FORM processing. By FORM processing, I mean, the kind which happens when you
press F for Print Forms and run a form that has a processing table attached
to it. My guess is that this is the only time this variable comes into play.
I think running an output "form" or "report" or "labels" is governed solely
by PFTOKSIZE... and PFAUTOKSIZE if there is an automatic processing table
involved.  I'm not dead certain about this, so Ken or someone who knows, can
correct this if I'm wrong.

Either way, I should have put a temporary PFFORMTOKSIZE=20000 on my menu
line in the sample system, but that would have required a menu script file,
since I don't know the direct path to everyone's fp directory and I was
trying to keep things simple. So, apologies to the few of you who had to set
your PFFORMTOKSIZE up, and if you don't like setting it as high as 80000 as
I've metnioned before... put it down to 20000. (That is, if you don't take
my word for it that 100000 is perfectly fine! :-)

John
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