We have users operating our system under ARev1 and ARev3.

We have a single upgrade system for templates, menus, programs etc. which is designed to upgrade the ARev1 and ARev3 versions.

We are having difficulties with dictionary items.

ARev 3 prevents dictionary records being copied or written into a dictionary file. In Symbolic fields the formula gets blanked out.

In many cases there is a minor change to the dictionary item. For example, the field length is altered.

Is there any way that dictionary items may be written into a ARev3 file? We have tried Read/Write and CopyRow without success.

I think that the dictionary record format and file layout was changed somewhere between V1 and V3. You will need to do some field mapping and reformatting of dictionary records when moving from your development environment to the older/newer target upgrade system..

You should be able to pick up the changes by manually inspecting dictionary records in the editor. Listing the 'dict of dict' entries in the dict of VOC would also help.

Peter-

There were changes in the dictionary layouts between 1.x and 3.x. A good place to look would be in the Dict.Equates records in both systems. As you probably already know, in Arev 1.x this could be found in Utility.Doc, and in Arev 3.x its in Sysinclude.

Also, the DICT.MFS changed between 1.x and 3.x, so a copy isn't wise- write a program to read from 1.x, change the record format as nexessary, and write to the 3.x system.

Hope this helps-

Mike Ruane

WinWin Solutions Inc.

WWW.WinWinSol.Com

Peter,

There are a bunch of fields in version 1 that should be nulled out while they are being written to version 3. There used to be a program in the compuserve download files that would do that. I might have a copy of it here . . . if I can find it.

Ron Wielage

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