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  • September 13, 2006
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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 September 2006]

I use the following construct successfully to get the number of records in a file.

STRING "VUTIL32 -I -X " DELIMITED BY SIZE
W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
LNK-UTIL-FILE-NAME DELIMITED BY " "
" >" DELIMITED BY SIZE
W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
"GARBAGE.TMP" DELIMITED BY SIZE
INTO COMMAND-NAME.
CALL "C$SYSTEM" USING COMMAND-NAME 96.
CANCEL "C$SYSTEM".

'command-name' actually reads
VUTIL32 -I -X C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP

I then read the file c:\\data\\garbage.tmp to get the record count. All perfect.

I am now also using
VUTIL32 -R -A -5 C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP
to rebuild the file and to convert it to version 5 format.

It never writes to the file GARBAGE.TMP even though it does create it. Anyone got any ideas why my redirection of the output works in the first example but not in the second?

Keith

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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 September 2006]

    I use the following construct successfully to get the number of records in a file.

    STRING "VUTIL32 -I -X " DELIMITED BY SIZE
    W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
    LNK-UTIL-FILE-NAME DELIMITED BY " "
    " >" DELIMITED BY SIZE
    W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
    "GARBAGE.TMP" DELIMITED BY SIZE
    INTO COMMAND-NAME.
    CALL "C$SYSTEM" USING COMMAND-NAME 96.
    CANCEL "C$SYSTEM".

    'command-name' actually reads
    VUTIL32 -I -X C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP

    I then read the file c:\\data\\garbage.tmp to get the record count. All perfect.

    I am now also using
    VUTIL32 -R -A -5 C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP
    to rebuild the file and to convert it to version 5 format.

    It never writes to the file GARBAGE.TMP even though it does create it. Anyone got any ideas why my redirection of the output works in the first example but not in the second?

    Keith
    vutil -info displays information on a screen and therefore the information can be redirected to a file. vutil -rebuild rebuils a file, with the -a switch (unless there are duplicates) the original file gets replaced by the new file. Redirecting in this case will not affect the rebuild. Once the rebuild has occurred you can launch another C$SYSTEM command to copy the rebuilt file to another file name.
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 September 2006]

    I use the following construct successfully to get the number of records in a file.

    STRING "VUTIL32 -I -X " DELIMITED BY SIZE
    W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
    LNK-UTIL-FILE-NAME DELIMITED BY " "
    " >" DELIMITED BY SIZE
    W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
    "GARBAGE.TMP" DELIMITED BY SIZE
    INTO COMMAND-NAME.
    CALL "C$SYSTEM" USING COMMAND-NAME 96.
    CANCEL "C$SYSTEM".

    'command-name' actually reads
    VUTIL32 -I -X C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP

    I then read the file c:\\data\\garbage.tmp to get the record count. All perfect.

    I am now also using
    VUTIL32 -R -A -5 C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP
    to rebuild the file and to convert it to version 5 format.

    It never writes to the file GARBAGE.TMP even though it does create it. Anyone got any ideas why my redirection of the output works in the first example but not in the second?

    Keith
    AcuGT versions prior to 6.2 had problems with vutil output. Some output from the vutil command was sent to standard error instead of standard output. This is OK if you're using vutil from the command line because stderr and stdout are the same thing - i.e. your screen. When you start to redirect output from vutil like you are trying to do, some of the output is "lost" because the screen isn't there to show stderr.

    Add "2>&1" to the end of your command to redirect standard error to standard output, which means both outputs will be sent to your file. It will not necessarily in the same sequence that you would expect it to be in, so if you are reading your output file looking for a particular record number, it may contain values the you don't expect because of the rearranged sequence caused by the stderr redirection.

    Hope this helps :)
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 September 2006]

    I use the following construct successfully to get the number of records in a file.

    STRING "VUTIL32 -I -X " DELIMITED BY SIZE
    W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
    LNK-UTIL-FILE-NAME DELIMITED BY " "
    " >" DELIMITED BY SIZE
    W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
    "GARBAGE.TMP" DELIMITED BY SIZE
    INTO COMMAND-NAME.
    CALL "C$SYSTEM" USING COMMAND-NAME 96.
    CANCEL "C$SYSTEM".

    'command-name' actually reads
    VUTIL32 -I -X C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP

    I then read the file c:\\data\\garbage.tmp to get the record count. All perfect.

    I am now also using
    VUTIL32 -R -A -5 C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP
    to rebuild the file and to convert it to version 5 format.

    It never writes to the file GARBAGE.TMP even though it does create it. Anyone got any ideas why my redirection of the output works in the first example but not in the second?

    Keith
    To Dilbert - thanks for your input but it is only the screen output I am trying to redirect (which gives infoon recordslost, coimpressed, etc. etc. ) and it is this that is somehow not going to the redirection I put into my command line

    To Blacky

    Where did you get this great bit of info? I am on version 7.0.1 of the VUTIL32 utility. I will check out your suggestion but it does on the face of it explain why my redirection may be failing - I will let you know if it really cures my issues.

    Thanks guys for your help

    Keith
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 September 2006]

    I use the following construct successfully to get the number of records in a file.

    STRING "VUTIL32 -I -X " DELIMITED BY SIZE
    W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
    LNK-UTIL-FILE-NAME DELIMITED BY " "
    " >" DELIMITED BY SIZE
    W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
    "GARBAGE.TMP" DELIMITED BY SIZE
    INTO COMMAND-NAME.
    CALL "C$SYSTEM" USING COMMAND-NAME 96.
    CANCEL "C$SYSTEM".

    'command-name' actually reads
    VUTIL32 -I -X C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP

    I then read the file c:\\data\\garbage.tmp to get the record count. All perfect.

    I am now also using
    VUTIL32 -R -A -5 C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP
    to rebuild the file and to convert it to version 5 format.

    It never writes to the file GARBAGE.TMP even though it does create it. Anyone got any ideas why my redirection of the output works in the first example but not in the second?

    Keith
    I live in the *NIX world where redirection and command pipelining are par for the course, but to be truthful, I redirected vutil output one day and found that most went to my file but some appeared on the screen. I redirected stderr to stdout (2>&1) and bingo, everything went to my file.

    As far as I know Acucorp fixed this in 6.2, so if you're using 7, it might be something else :confused: Try it tough, there may be options of vutil that I don't use that you are, which still exhibit the problem.

    Happy coding...

    PS: Just tested your vutil command options with versions 7.0 & 7.2, and they have the same problems that I thought were fixed in 6.2. I only reported problems in vutil -info, so you might like to let them know that -r is also broken. The 2>&1 added to the very end of the command will fix it for now.
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 12 September 2006]

    I use the following construct successfully to get the number of records in a file.

    STRING "VUTIL32 -I -X " DELIMITED BY SIZE
    W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
    LNK-UTIL-FILE-NAME DELIMITED BY " "
    " >" DELIMITED BY SIZE
    W-FILE-PREFIX DELIMITED BY " "
    "GARBAGE.TMP" DELIMITED BY SIZE
    INTO COMMAND-NAME.
    CALL "C$SYSTEM" USING COMMAND-NAME 96.
    CANCEL "C$SYSTEM".

    'command-name' actually reads
    VUTIL32 -I -X C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP

    I then read the file c:\\data\\garbage.tmp to get the record count. All perfect.

    I am now also using
    VUTIL32 -R -A -5 C:\\DATA\\STHMI01 >C:\\DATA\\GARBAGE.TMP
    to rebuild the file and to convert it to version 5 format.

    It never writes to the file GARBAGE.TMP even though it does create it. Anyone got any ideas why my redirection of the output works in the first example but not in the second?

    Keith
    Blacky - you're a star, I will report the problem to ACU support. Thanks.
    Regards
    Keith

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