Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

    
    	Terry Porter has done a lot of work documenting the various
    	system files used in the shared file cabinet of V3.0. He has
    	produced an excellent support document which you can either get
    	through the A1INFO conference, or by sending him mail.
    
    Regards,
    Paul
    
    PS	I also tidied up your empty note/title problem!

    jezza,
    
    Of course the documentation on FILECAB should be in the customer
    doc-set for all to see and use and so i'd recommend you raise an SPR
    against the documentation.
    
    regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks

Re: .1		Can I have a mail address please? Either A1 or VAX. Will
		his document supply a list of FILECAB calls and syntax?

Re: .2		Last time I logged an SPR I was a customer. How do I do
		it 'internally'?

	Regards,

	  Jezza


[My day *did* actually improve, despite the wonderful start!]

    Jezza,       
    
    Terry's in England at the moment and his unread mail count is probably
    already pretty high - there are instructions in ABBOTT::A1INFO that list 
    the location of this document.
    
    Note 10 in this very conference gives details of how to submit SPRs.
    
    regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks
    

    
    	Hmm. Not sure I agree it should be published info. I was going
    	to warn that the layout (and even existance of) FILECAB.DAT was
    	subject to change in a PFR, but then the base noter is only
    	interested in a one shot migration to V3.0 so I decided against
    	it.
    
    	If we publish the layout officially then we are stuck with it, even
    	if we say it may change in the future. If you read about it in an
    	internal document and base your life existance on it, then we're not.
    
    	IMHO,
    
    Regards,
    Paul

    Paul,
    
    But if the file layouts are published in a book by DIGITAL Press
    then why can't they go into the official doc-set also.
    
    regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks

    See note 4.2 for details about obtaining membership of the A1INFO
    notesfile.

    Cheers,
        Paul.

All I really want is documentation on the FILECAB calls so I can use them. 
Is this available from A1INFO?

	Jezza

    Jezza,
    
    Terry's document has everything - why don't you get a copy
    rather than ask the same question again?
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks

Re. reference to Digital Press books:

The books have caveats in them telling people that file layouts may change
and advising programmers to always access the underlying structures via
data sets.  

The structure of FILECAB may indeed feature in a forthcoming Digital Press
book, but I'll wait till I see it published before I guarantee that it comes
out...

Tony

    I think .0 was talking about the FILECAB API function? As that's part
    of the API, I assume we aren't thinking of changing it??
    
    Similarly for the dataset.
    
    (At home, so - as there still isn't a character cell version of
    Bookreader - I can't check the docset).
    
    Dave.

    To follow up for Dave:
    
    The FILECAB data set is documented in APR Reference Volume 1. (It comes
    after FILE$ and before GROUP$)
    
    The FILECAB function is documented in APR Reference Volume 2. (It comes
    after FIELD and before FIND_FORM).
    
    Cheers
    
    Stuart

Yep. Despite the correct part-ids on my manuals, they
seemed to be 'old'. The bookreader set from the Reading
guys contained FIELCAB in all it's glory.

Jez

    ALL-IN-1 3.0-1, VMS 5.5-2
    
    customer has a SHARED FOLDER (from 2.4 - NOT SFCP). customer has a
    SHARED DRAWER. they want to RFD or MCD a document directly from the
    SHARED FOLDER to the SHARED DRAWER. when doing this they get the error:
    
    "File Cabinet object does not exist"
    
    Found the DSN article about it, but the article is about unread mail.
    
    I told them to FT the document from the SHARED FOLDER to their personal
    account and then do RFD to the SHARED DRAWER, but it is felt that this
    is too many steps for the users.  
    
    Can this be done in 1 step?
    
    	ann
    

    Hi,
    
    I'm afraid the File Cabinet Server does not support shared folders, and
    since all cross-drawer operations use the FCS, it can't be made to
    work. Would it be possible for your customer to put the documents in
    the shared folder into a shared drawer?
    
    Cheers
    
    Stuart