Re: 94 4gl Program Max?

Matt Brickley wrote: > > In r4gl v 4.12 (SE 5.01, SCO unix 3.2v4.2), > when I add the 95th program under the program menu, it > will not appear on the screen for selection. It is in the > source4gl table in the syspgm4gl database.Iif another program > is undefined, my new 95th program appears in the list (only because > it is now the 94th program in the sort order). > > Is there a setting for this somewhere? > > TIA, > Matt Brickley Matt, I must agree with Jonathan, not that he needs it, :-) but 'make' really is the way to go. I can't tell you what a mess that i4gl system does, especially in the hands of some programmers. And I'm not inferring you're bad, but i4gl is really a distraction from good programming practice. It was a nice attempt at a programming environment for its' time, but UNIX has so many better tools for developing programs. And even if you move to Win95 or NT, there's nmake. But integrated environments are better nowadays on Windows platforms, so using make directly can actually be somewhat arduous and counter-productive. Your gut reaction might be to say, "Oh Tim, thanks for the tip, but I've no time for makefiles.". I didn't either when I was in a sea of 4GL. So I came up with make_mk, specifically for making makefiles for 4GL programs. It works on UNIX, I don't know how well it works on non-UNIX platforms with bourne/korn shells. make_mk is at my site. To use it, you'd do something like this: Let's say my 4ge is called foo.4ge. I have 95 4GL programs, one is a GLOBALS file, and the rest are modules. And I may want an RDS version as well. $ ls *.4gl > 4gl.lst# remove the GLOBALs 4gl file from this list if you have one. # got screens? $ ls *.per > per.lst #if you have c files to link in, add them too. $ ls *.c > c.lst #if you have a globals file add it too. $ echo "globals.4gl" > glb.lst # Then run make_mk and give a name for your new makefile: $ make_mk foo.mk To make your executable or RDS program, you simply: $ make -f foo.mkor $ make -f foo.mk rds You're done. The names of the .lst files are in make_mk. If they exist when you run make_mk then the files listed in them will be added to the makefile. It's not perfect, but should work for many simple situations. Of course you could always do it by hand... :-) BTW, I have a 4GL report that somewhat reports on what is in your syspgm4gl.dbs if you or anyone is interested in it. Tim -- Tim Schaefer \\\\|// tschaefe@mindspring.com 6 6 --------------------oOOo---( )---o00o--------- http://www.inxutil.com ==============================================