Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

1447.0. "Deleting lowercase entries in Network.dat" by KERNEL::SMITHERSJ (Living on the culinary edge....) Thu Sep 17 1992 18:38

    Somehow a customer has added entries to NETWORK.DAT which are 
    lowercase.    These can be selected when sending mail but cannot
    be selected via <FORM NETWORK, doing an index of SM MAD etc and
    cannot be deleted in whatever method, whether its using the form
    or doing a write change.  We also tried creating a form which 
    maps onto the same data file but which accepts lowercase values 
    too, but this does not recognise the lowercase ones when it comes
    to delete them.
    
    How can I get rid of them short of edit/tpu and converting the 
    file?
    
    Thanks
    julia

    
    julia,
    
    If you're wanting to be real ALL-IN-1-ish with your solution, just:
    	1) Create an index form that binds to the records in NETWORK
    	2) Select the records that you want to delete
    	3) Run a script that loops through the selected records using
    	   OA$SCROLL_ADDRESS to access the records.
    
    This sounds good in theory but at this point I have neither the
    time nor the motivation to try it myself.  I can't think of any reason
    that it wouldn't work.
    
    HTH,
    
    Jack
    

    Julia,
    
    What about deleting the file and then running SMNETINIT and then the
    UA HK jobbie to repopulate it
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks