Flags - IUA (rclerk, dclerk)

 

The following flags can be used within filePro menus or from the command line with program "rclerk" or "dclerk".

Syntax: dclerk filename flags

 

-B 

Turns browse on - can be used with XI or XS.

-B name

Turns browse on using the given browse format.

-BD name

Like -B, but also allows switching formats & format maintenance (create,update,delete).

-BX

Turns browse off and removes option 5.

-D

Suppresses all bottom-of-the-screen messages.

-DB 

Turns on processing debugger.

-DE

Turns off only the @entsel prompts, leaving the update mode
prompts intact for GUI.

-DL

Forces filePro to display the prompts even if xkeys are included. Note: the brwlook xkey prompts have been changed back to the old behavior i.e. if any xkeys are listed, filePro does not put up the default brwlook prompts.

-DM

To remove Index Mode label from screen  Version 6.0.02

-DU

Turns off only the update mode prompts, leaving the @entsel
prompts intact for GUI.

-FP filename

Run a specified processing table without having an output format associated with it.

-FX

Disables the format selection window.

-H "heading"

Screen heading.

-J 

Turns indexed scan on for one operation.

-JN

Turns indexed scan off for one operation.

-LX

Disables creation, deletion and modification of browse lookups.

-M name

Uses the given qualifier.

-MD 

Prompts for a qualifier using default prompt.

-MQ "msg"

Prompts for qualifier using "msg" as prompt.

-MN

Hide [NONE] qualifier from the qualifier list.

-N

Puts user in update mode on each selected record - used with X flags.

 -P name

Send printer output to "name".

-PC type

Sets the printer type.

-PN name

Sets the printer name.

-PQ

Prompts user for printing to printer, file or display.

-PV  

Shows printer output on screen, one page at a time.

-R "value" 

Sets value for system-maintained field @PM.

-RO

Designates files as read only.

-RW data

Works like the -R flag, i.e., passes a variable to a processing table. The processing table uses the @PW system-maintained field to retrieve the variable's contents.

-RX data

Same as -RW but uses the @PX system-maintained field.

-RY data

Same as -RW but uses the @PY system maintained field.

-RZ data

Same as -RW but uses the @PZ system maintained field.

-Sn 

Screen to use.

-T nnnnn

Sets input processing tokenization table size.

-TF nnnnn

Sets output processing tokenization table size.

-TY nnnnn 

Sets automatic processing tokenization table size.

-XA 

User goes immediately into add records mode.

-XE

Skips IUA menu, goes directly to @ENTSEL processing in input processing.

 -XI 

User goes immediately to index-mode prompt.

-Xin  

User goes immediately to index-mode on "index.n".

-XS name

User enters the file via given selection set.

-Y name

Choose alternate automatic processing table. Use nonexistent table name (or "") to skip automatic processing.

-Z name 

Choose alternate input processing table. Use nonexistent table name (or "") to skip processing.

 

 

(UNIX/Linux only)

 

-PT  

Print to local printer if codes are in termcap entry, otherwise print to the screen.