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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-CARRIBEAN link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#993366'>Hi everybody,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#993366'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#993366'>Ernesto has done it again. My problem is solved and 1 more lesson learnt from our genius </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#993366'>J</span><span style='color:#993366'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#993366'>See solution below in his email. I love the versatility of the mx command. There should really be a manual on it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#993366'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#993366'>Bridgette<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> isis-users [mailto:isis-users-bounces+nlj_bmheron=hotmail.com@iccisis.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>spinaker<br><b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 12, 2015 4:25 PM<br><b>To:</b> isis-users@iccisis.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Isis-users] MX utility<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Bridgette<br><br>In first place I want to congratulate you because a database with more then 140 thousand records is really interesting<br>By the Way, what kind of library you manage and where is it located?<br><br>Ok, let's go to work<br>Out of curiosity, how do you get your hit of records, i.e. is the term 'pioj' indexed in any way?<br>do you extract that term using some sort of FST?<br><br>I suppose that your bool=pioj is correct, so the way to do this is: <br><b><span style='font-family:"Courier New"'><br> mx dbase bool=pioj proc='d.' copy=dbase now -all tell=1000</span></b><br><br>The way to delete the record is copying the process onto the same database, otherwise the result is only to the console, but has no effect on the master file<br>let's note that you cannot export records wiht a proc='d.' because you cannot create deleted records !!!<br><br>then ... please ... backup yuour database before you begin with the killing !!!<br><br>good luck<br>Ernesto Spinak<br><br><br><br><br>El 12/10/2015 a las 18:05, Bridgette Heron escribió:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Hello all,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I have a database of 142,747 records and I want to delete all records with the term ‘pioj’ . The search from Winisis yields 59775 records so its too many to delete.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>I tried the mx utility.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Mx dbase bool=pioj proc=’d.’</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Thought it would logically delete them so I could export/import to load back the records I want to keep. The command runs but no effect when in Winisis i.e. records with the term pioj are not flagged as logically deleted. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Shed some light please. Thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Bridgette</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre>isis-users mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre><a href="mailto:isis-users@iccisis.org">isis-users@iccisis.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>To manage your own subscription options go to: <a href="http://lists.iccisis.org/listinfo/isis-users">http://lists.iccisis.org/listinfo/isis-users</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre>Or contact Henk Rutten: <a href="mailto:hlrutten@xs4all.nl">hlrutten@xs4all.nl</a><o:p></o:p></pre></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><pre>-- <o:p></o:p></pre><pre> .^. .^.<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> ( ) ( )<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> === ===<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> =[=]================================[=]=<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> | | Ernesto Spinak | |<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> | | <a href="mailto:spinaker@adinet.com.uy">spinaker@adinet.com.uy</a> | |<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> | | Montevideo, Uruguay | |<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> | | tel/fax (598) 2622-3352 | |<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> | | celular (598) 99612238 | |<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> =[=]================================[=]=<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> === ===<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> ( ) ( )<o:p></o:p></pre><pre> V V <o:p></o:p></pre></div></body></html>