<div dir="ltr">I've been playing around with MEMOs ... and so far so good with respect to corruption but it's not been heavily pounded upon ... so don't take this as an endorsement.<div><br></div><div>MEMO export on Linux is pretty straight forward.</div><div> <br></div><div><div><br></div><div>118 ------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</div><div> If: </div><div> Then: FILE_NAME="/tmp/example.txt" 'for example</div><div>119 ------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</div><div> If: <br></div><div> Then: CMD="umask 111; touch" < FILE_NAME 'create the file, in this case it won't pre-exist and will be destroyed </div><div>120 ------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</div><div> If: memo </div><div> Then: system CMD </div><div><div> </div><div>121 ------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -</div><div> If: memo </div><div> Then: MEMO xx EXPORT FILE_NAME 'export memo to file </div><div>122 ------- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - </div></div><div><br></div><div> Do what you want with the resulting file </div><div><br></div><div>xx must be defined as (16,MEMO). CMD and FILE_NAME are long variables because I like using them.</div><div><br></div><div>MEMO is very un-filePro like on the whole.</div><div>You can't include it on a report using the same techniques as with other filePro data.</div><div>You can't use any @we* or @wl* or other processing labels with it.</div><div>You can't put a title on the box it draws to show or edit the Memo on the screen (a title variable is only available in the GUI). You can get around that when showing the MEMO by using a SHOW statement immediately after the 'MEMO xx SHOW '</div><div><div><br></div><div> If: </div><div> Then: memo xx show ("13","1","9","80","",""); show ("13","5") "\r NOTES \r"</div></div><div><br></div><div> ... but you can't do that with 'MEMO xx EDIT" as far as I can tell.</div><div><br></div><div>When using the MEMO SHOW command the End of Field marker characters shows on the screen -- which is ugly and distracting. </div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand ...</div><div>It's great for pulling in text from NotePad and any other text generated by the user.</div><div>It uses all the filePro function keys to edit the memo as you would expect ie) on Linux termcap F3 inserts a line, F2 deletes a character, CTRL-O deletes the rest of a line etc.</div><div>Word wrapping is nice.</div><div>Spell checking has it's issues as per my earlier message but is nice-to-have nonetheless.</div><div>It scrolls beyond the screen real-estate as required. Beautiful.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope that's of some interest to the MEMO uninitiated. </div><div><br></div><div>As an aside, I've had zero issues with filePro license manager FWIW.</div><div>Nested CALLs ... worth it. </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Bill McEachran</div><div><font size="1"><a href="mailto:bill.mceachran@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.mceachran@gmail.com</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>--</div><div>Bill McEachran</div><div><font size="1"><a href="mailto:bill.mceachran@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.mceachran@gmail.com</a> </font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://www.wjmceachran.com" target="_blank">http://www.wjmceachran.com</a> </font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://www.fileproprogramming.com" target="_blank">http://www.fileproprogramming.com</a></font></div></div><div><font size="1" color="#0000ff"><a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/bill-mceachran-82a56114" target="_blank">https://ca.linkedin.com/in/bill-mceachran-82a56114</a></font><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:37 PM, William J. McEachran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.mceachran@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.mceachran@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">5.8 at least seems to have something of a hybrid with respect to spellchecking<div>.<div>The file .../fp/spell/README.txt refers has the following references to both iSpell and Hunspell</div><div>::</div><div><div>*.hsh = iSpell</div><div><br></div><div>*.dic and *.aff = Hunspell</div></div><div>::</div><div>I tried changing out the supplied en_US.aff en_US.dic with the 'en_CA' versions from Libreoffice but it failed.</div><div>I would think the dict.hsh file also needs replaced but I never pursued it.</div><div><br></div><div>Enough of an aside for me ... the spell check wasn't a feature I feature I was interested in.</div></div><div><br></div><div>What I'm interested in is if MEMO/BLOB results in data corruption in recent versions. </div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-4620876665443258262gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>--</div><div>Bill McEachran</div><div><font size="1"><a href="mailto:bill.mceachran@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.mceachran@gmail.com</a> </font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://www.wjmceachran.com" target="_blank">http://www.wjmceachran.com</a> </font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://www.fileproprogramming.com" target="_blank">http://www.fileproprogramming.<wbr>com</a></font></div></div><div><font size="1" color="#0000ff"><a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/bill-mceachran-82a56114" target="_blank">https://ca.linkedin.com/in/<wbr>bill-mceachran-82a56114</a></font><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br></span><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:10 PM, William J. McEachran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.mceachran@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.mceachran@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I<font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">ts hunspell now</font><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">Manual says:</font></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace"><<</font></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">"Hun<font style="background-color:rgb(178,180,191)">spel</font>l is the <font style="background-color:rgb(178,180,191)">spel</font>l checker of LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, Mozilla Firefox 3 & Thunderbird, Google Chrome, and it is also used by proprietary software packages, like Mac OS X, InDesign, memoQ, Opera and SDL Trados." </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a class="m_-4620876665443258262m_4809934178027628283gmail-moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank"><http://hun<font style="color:black;background-color:rgb(178,180,191)">spel</font>l.sourceforge.n<wbr>et/></a><br></font></div><div><font size="1" face="monospace, monospace">>><br></font><div><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-4620876665443258262m_4809934178027628283gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>--</div><div>Bill McEachran</div><div><font size="1"><a href="mailto:bill.mceachran@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.mceachran@gmail.com</a> </font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://www.wjmceachran.com" target="_blank">http://www.wjmceachran.com</a> </font></div><div><font size="1"><a href="http://www.fileproprogramming.com" target="_blank">http://www.fileproprogramming.<wbr>com</a></font></div></div><div><font size="1" color="#0000ff"><a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/bill-mceachran-82a56114" target="_blank">https://ca.linkedin.com/in/bil<wbr>l-mceachran-82a56114</a></font><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br></span><div><div class="m_-4620876665443258262h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:00 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" target="_blank">filepro-list@lists.celestial.<wbr>com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If memory serves, they used aspell. If that's true, this is a good place<br>
to start:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://aspell.net/man-html/Format-of-the-Personal-and-Replacement-Dictionaries.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://aspell.net/man-html/For<wbr>mat-of-the-Personal-and-Replac<wbr>ement-Dictionaries.html</a><br>
<br>
m-><br>
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On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:53:23PM -0400, William J. McEachran via Filepro-list thus spoke:<br>
<div><div class="m_-4620876665443258262m_4809934178027628283h5">> This thread got me interested in re-evaluating MEMO/BLOB which I never<br>
> embraced due to all the well known corruption issues.<br>
><br>
> I'd be interested in comments from anyone using MEMO or BLOB regularly on<br>
> recent versions of filePro.<br>
><br>
> Can the spelling library used in MEMO (and the SPELLCHECK command) be<br>
> customized ?<br>
><br>
> In my neighbourhood things are spelt differently.<br>
><br>
><br>
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> On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 2:12 AM, Laura Brody via Filepro-list <<br>
> <a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" target="_blank">filepro-list@lists.celestial.c<wbr>om</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> > That is correct syntax.<br>
> ><br>
> > MEMO f SHOW<br>
> > MEMO f CLEAR<br>
> ><br>
> > should work without error. If you have code which crashes you should send a<br>
> > sample file to fP Tech for them to take a look at it.<br>
> ><br>
> > Laura Brody<br>
> ><br>
> > On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 9:56 PM, Mike via Filepro-list <<br>
> > <a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" target="_blank">filepro-list@lists.celestial.c<wbr>om</a>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > > windows2008 server r2/filepro 5.0.09dn9<br>
> > ><br>
> > > In the filepro help file it says this....<br>
> > ><br>
> > > "MEMO xx CLEAR Clears a window brought up with MEMO xx SHOW."<br>
> > ><br>
> > > MEMO xx CLEAR, MEMO xx EDIT, etc... are listed on the left of the memo<br>
> > > help as memo commands but it doesn't list MEMO xx SHOW there at all. I<br>
> > just<br>
> > > assumed from the description of the MEMO xx CLEAR command that MEMO xx<br>
> > SHOW<br>
> > > was a valid command.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > I didn't get any syntax errors when I put it in the processing table but<br>
> > I<br>
> > > got a critical memory something error when I tried running the program.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > For now I'm just using MEMO xx EDIT with readonly but I'm curious to know<br>
> > > if the MEMO xx SHOW is even a valid command.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Mike<br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
> > ><br>
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