[Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files -andPFTFormats

spinaker spinaker at adinet.com.uy
Mon Apr 28 22:36:07 CEST 2014


Dear Giuzzo

Yes, this trick works, because I do this kind of customization of ISO 
files very often

Regards
Ernesto Spinak


El 28/04/2014 17:25, Jean-Claude Dauphin escribió:
> Dear Giuzzo,
>
> I think that you can edit the ISO file with a text editor and replace 
> the % character by another one such as  the & character. I am not sure 
> but it may work.
>
> Best wishes,
> Jean-Claude
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 9:20 PM, Giuzzo Barbaro <g.barbaro at mclink.net 
> <mailto:g.barbaro at mclink.net>> wrote:
>
>     Dear Egbert and Jean-Claude
>
>     many thanks for your valuable hints. It seems now to be working
>     ...!  :-)
>
>     Egbert, you' re perfectly right: the indexing technique 0 (instead
>     of 5) in field 26 in the FST is a real mistake.
>     I didn't even notice that in the JISIS dictionary there was no
>     entry "Z=xxx" (in the sample I sent).
>     The very strange fact is that the (wrong) syntax (26, 0,
>     mpu,"Z="V26) in the FST worked perfectly for more than 20 years in
>     hundreds and hundreds of libraries using TECAdb in the
>     CDS/ISIS-WinISIS versions (!?)  (in facts you can easily check
>     that in the sample ISIS "DOS" version I attached to the mail, you
>     can find all the "Z=" terms in the Inverted file, despite the
>     wrong syntax!).
>
>     Anyway, I changed the FST as you suggested and tried your test-PFT
>     and it works!
>     Now I'll try to change all the PFT's in a correct way (and may be
>     I will need your help again, because now I'm getting some parsing
>     error... :-(  )
>
>     Thanks again
>
>     (I'm still having problems with the repeatable subfields, as I
>     told you...I understand that this is probably due somehow to a
>     certain "misuse" of the repetitions)
>
>     Kind regards
>     bye
>
>     giuzzo
>
>
>     ----- Original Message ----- From: "De Smet Egbert"
>     <egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be <mailto:egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be>>
>     To: "Giuzzo Barbaro" <g.barbaro at mclink.net
>     <mailto:g.barbaro at mclink.net>>
>     Cc: "Jean-Claude Dauphin" <jc.dauphin at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jc.dauphin at gmail.com>>
>     Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 8:37 PM
>
>     Subject: RE: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files
>     -andPFTFormats
>
>
>     Hello again,
>
>     no need to apologize, I only wanted to make clear why there was no
>     immediate reply.
>     Now, I checked your PFT and I think the problem is with the syntax.
>
>     First of all I changed the line creating the 'Z=' entries, by
>     making it technique 5 (instead of 0) :
>     26 5 '/Z=/',mpu,(V26/)
>     as before that I didn't see any Z= entries in your dictionary.
>
>     Then I created the following PFT for testing the REF-function
>     (e.g. called 'testref') :
>     (if p(v27) then
>     REF(L('Z='v27),
>     'V1='v1'  ',
>     'V26='v26'    ',
>     'V29='v29/'<BR>')
>     else 'no references' fi)
>
>     and the output for MFN 2 is, in my opinion correct :
>     V1=^aInferno V26=005555 V29=1
>     V1=^aPurgatorio V26=005556 V29=2
>     V1=^aParadiso V26=005557 V29=3
>
>     Based on this output from the basic model PFT for the
>     REF-function, I think you should be able to correct your PFT with
>     correct output.
>     If you don't manage, let us know.
>     Egbert de Smet
>     Universiteit Antwerpen
>     ________________________________________
>     From: Giuzzo Barbaro [g.barbaro at mclink.net
>     <mailto:g.barbaro at mclink.net>]
>     Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 3:49 PM
>     To: De Smet Egbert
>     Cc: Jean-Claude Dauphin
>     Subject: Re: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files
>     -andPFTFormats
>
>     Dear Egbert, Dear Jean-Claude
>
>     Thank you for your kind interest.
>     I am perfectly aware that you -and many people in the ISIS
>     community- are
>     working mostly on a "voluntary basis" for the ISIS project, and
>     all of us
>     are
>     very grateful to you for all the efforts (and the great work) you
>     have done
>     and still are doing for us.
>     Therefore I apologize if I gave to you the impression to ask (or worse
>     "claim"...!) for a quick solution: it was absolutely far from my
>     intentions.
>     I just wanted to share a problem with people having a much deeper
>     knowledge
>     than mine, thinking that maybe other people encountered -and
>     solved- the
>     same problems,
>     and I sent the files attached to my previous mail because I was
>     asked to do
>     so by someone. In the last days I shared with friends living near
>     me the
>     great surprise and the honour of getting an (unespected) answer
>     from you to
>     my emails.
>
>     (I can simply add that working on a "voluntary basis" applies
>     somehow also
>     to me-at a much lower level, as I was asked to solve this problem
>     -on a free
>     basis, of course, as usual...- by others who updated their machines to
>     64-bit ones, and this is not "my" database - I am only a school Math
>     teacher, with a little ISIS knowledge due to many years of usage.)
>
>     Therefore it is not my intention to abuse your kindness and your
>     time, not
>     to put anyone in a hurry to solve my problems, please trust me.
>     English is
>     not my native language, and maybe some of my expressions are not a
>     correct
>     translation of my real thoughts and feelings.
>
>     Kind regards
>     giuzzo
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: "De Smet Egbert" <egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be
>     <mailto:egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be>>
>     To: "Giuzzo Barbaro" <g.barbaro at mclink.net
>     <mailto:g.barbaro at mclink.net>>; "Jcd" <jc.dauphin at gmail.com
>     <mailto:jc.dauphin at gmail.com>>
>     Cc: <isis-users at iccisis.org <mailto:isis-users at iccisis.org>>
>     Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 1:01 PM
>     Subject: RE: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO
>     Files -andPFTFormats
>
>
>     Hello,
>
>     in order to fully check your problem (which is in fact the 'repeatable
>     subfield' problem, something which originally was NOT envisaged by
>     ISIS-technology) a careful setup is required and this simply takes
>     some more
>     time to be set aside for finding out. None of us is full-time
>     freed from
>     other professional responsibilities to deal with such issues, it
>     is all
>     about voluntary time and efforts, hoping to sustain the
>     ISIS-technology.
>     When we discussed the REF-function for J-ISIS the idea was to
>     fully copy its
>     functionality from WinISIS (in fact such 'run-time'-on-demand
>     semi-relational capability is something other database technology
>     is envying
>     ISIS for), so that for sure should be tested carefully and if
>     found wrong
>     corrected. Maybe your data provide us with interesting testing
>     data, that
>     can be useful indeed.
>     So, some patience please.
>
>     Egbert de Smet
>     Universiteit Antwerpen
>     ________________________________________
>     From: isis-users
>     [isis-users-bounces+egbert.desmet=ua.ac.be at iccisis.org
>     <mailto:ua.ac.be at iccisis.org>] on
>     behalf of Giuzzo Barbaro [g.barbaro at mclink.net
>     <mailto:g.barbaro at mclink.net>]
>     Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 11:54 AM
>     To: Jcd
>     Cc: isis-users at iccisis.org <mailto:isis-users at iccisis.org>
>     Subject: Re: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files -
>     andPFTFormats
>
>     Dear Jean-Claude
>     yesterday I sent this mail to you, with some attachments, but I
>     got an NDR
>     message from your server (message too big (?) - it was not so big,
>     about
>     160kB...). So I decided to cut the old conversations and try to
>     send it
>     again to you.
>     Thanks
>     Kind regards
>     giuzzo
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Giuzzo Barbaro<mailto:g.barbaro at mclink.net
>     <mailto:g.barbaro at mclink.net>>
>     To: María Mercedes MacLean<mailto:gaspyy at infovia.com.ar
>     <mailto:gaspyy at infovia.com.ar>> ;
>     Jcd<mailto:jc.dauphin at gmail.com <mailto:jc.dauphin at gmail.com>> ;
>     De Smet
>     Egbert<mailto:egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be
>     <mailto:egbert.desmet at uantwerpen.be>>
>     Cc: isis-users at iccisis.org
>     <mailto:isis-users at iccisis.org><mailto:isis-users at iccisis.org
>     <mailto:isis-users at iccisis.org>>
>     Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2014 1:46 PM
>     Subject: Re: [Isis-users] JISIS - Problems Importing ISO Files -
>     andPFTFormats
>
>     Dear Jean-Claude, Maria Mercedes, Egbert and all friends,
>
>     attached to this mail you'll find some files (in .zip format) - 2
>     export
>     .ISO files and the TECA db structure,  and an explanation (Word)
>     of the work
>     I have done, to explain in a simple (?) way the problems I have
>     encountered.
>     Thaks again for your help.
>     Have a nice weekend
>     Kind regards
>     Giuzzo
>
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>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Jean-Claude Dauphin
>
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