Ok, so I'm an idiot.
So I was working on a regex that took way to long to craft. After perfecting it, I upgraded my work machine with a blazing fast hard drive and realized that I never saved the regex anywhere and simply used RegexBuddy's autosave to store it. Dumb dumb dumb.
I sent a copy of the regex to a coworker but now he can't find it (or the record of our communication). My best hope of finding the regex is to find it in RegexBuddy on the old hard drive. RegexBuddy automatically saves whatever you were working on each time you close it. I've done some preliminary searches to try to determine where it actually saves that working data but I'm having no success.
This question is the result of my dumb behavior but I thought it was a good chance to finally ask a question here.
On my XP box, it was in the registry here:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\JGsoft\RegexBuddy3\History
There were two REG_BINARY keys called Action0 and Action1 that had hex data containing my two regexes from the history.
The test data that I was testing the regex against was here:
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\JGsoft\RegexBuddy 3
It depends on the OS, of cause, but on Windows I would guess the application data directory. I can't remember the path on xp but on vista it's something like this:
C:\Users\ user name \AppData\
And then it would probably be here:
C:\Users\ user name \AppData\roaming
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I have searched for a setting within the mvbasic extension within VSCode but I may have hit a dead end. I am new to using VSCode with the rocket mvbasic extension and still in the learning process, so please bear with me.
Our development for the most part has always been directly on the server using the editor within it to code and develop on a Unix/Aix platform with Unidata. Some of our code has array assignments with CHAR(253)/CHAR(254) characters within them. See the link to the image that shows how its done. Now I didn't do this code, the original software developer did this many many years ago and we just aren't going to go and change it all.
How code looks on actual server
The issue is when pulling the code to edit in VSCode, the extension is changing it, and I uploaded it back and didn't pay attention and it was implemented in our production incorrectly, which created a few bugs.
ALIST="H�V�P�R�M�D"
How code looks in VSCode
How code looks after uploaded back to server from VSCode
Easy to fix, no biggie, but now to my question.
Does anyone have this issue, or has a direction to point me into that maybe I need to create a setting to keep the characters in the correct ASCII format so that this doesn't happen again by mistake?
VSCode defaults to the sane choice for character encoding in 2022: utf-8, but sometimes you have to deal with legacy stuff.
https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/editor/codebasics#_file-encoding-support
If you click on the UTF-8 in the bottom right corner you can choose "Reopen with Encoding":
After that, you can select a different encoding. I chose DOS (CP437) at a guess and literal MV characters are displayed as superscript 2 (²), and for me I can save to the server and confirm those characters remain as #VM after a round trip (though for my terminal emulator they appear as } which is useful).
You can edit preferences and set "files.encoding": "cp437". One other thing that can be helpful if your programs don't have a standard extension (like .bas) as most don't is to set the default mode to basic so most of what you're editing will identify as MVbasic, and you can do a quick CTRL-K M to switch to any other modes if you're just pasting in something else like SQL.
Some useful links - the Rocket forums are helpful and the folks there are always super nice
https://community.rocketsoftware.com/forums/multivalue?CommunityKey=521bce2e-71d5-4d32-b560-dfa95e950eb5
The MV Extensions Community extension is a good group and always has been helpful when I've had issues. I've made some small contributions - they're very open. I prefer this extension, but honestly haven't done a deep comparison.
https://github.com/mvextensions
I wrote a tool which was originally thought for analyzing hard disc images. Now I'm trying to use this tool for live analyzis of computer systems, means my tool tries to access the physical drive.
I implemented my tool in QT accessing the images using the QFile class. Instead of images I hand over the physical drive, under windows it is \.\PHYSICALDRIVE0.
I was wondering first I didnt get any errors, I can open the device, I can seek, get the position, almost everything. The only thing I have problems with is retrieving the drive size with size().
Some code example:
QFile file( "\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE0" );
file.open( QIODevice::ReadOnly );
file.size(); //returns 0
I'm not too deep into QT, probably this is some easy thing. I would like to thank everybody who has an idea what is the reason.
thanks in advance!
QFileInfo may be able to help you out. It sounds like opening a read only file at that part of windows partition is allowed maybe even if it doesn't exist. There might be a chance that the call of GetLastError() may give more information why a file size of zero was returned.
With QFileInfo, you can check to make sure it exists before it opens.
You may end up needing some platform specific calls to be able to work with Physical Drives:
Volume to physical drive
It looks like there may be some example code of looking at partitions with PartMod on SourceForge.
As a side note of querying sizes of file folders, I thought it had to be cached somewhere by the operating system, or had to be calculated at the time of the query in many cases. I know it seems like that happens when looking at folder properties in Windows or Get Info on OSX.
Also, looking at the Volume to physical drive answers, there is a field there for the extent length. I think this is what you are looking for.
Hope that helps.
I'm looking for a way to include a full blown English dictionary in an iPhone app (a word game), the database must be able to include all conjugation possibilities for verbs, must include singular and plural spellings. So my app can query the database to check if the spelling is correct.
Is there a free or commercial database that would include those data?
You can use UITextChecker for spell-checking.
Regarding a dictionary, when I built an iOS dictionary library sometime ago (www.lexicontext.com) I used WordNet. WordNet contains a lot of interesting semantic info ...
NSSpellChecker is your easiest option, but it might be more complete to use the online Scrabble official dictionary as well and check it against both (only one match required.)
You could do a web-service request using http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/en_US/search.cfm
http://www.a2zwordfinder.com/cgi-bin/scrabble.cgi?Letters=&Pattern=______&MatchType=Exactly&MinLetters=3&SortBy=Alpha&SearchType=Scrabble
Change min letters to get different results
The best place to find a database for a spell-checker is probably a free text processing application. So, I'd try with Open Office version of Word. Download it, install it and simply find the dictionary file.
Open Office is licensed under LGPL, so it should be fine, just check if the licence covers the data as well (i.e. the dictionary file).
Maybe this English corpus helps: http://www.wordfrequency.info/free.asp
I am developing an architectural LISP-based package for a member of the IntelliCAD consortium. Per recommendations I have found on websites, I have used the Kelvinator to deformat and disguise some of the code. Now I am attempting to use Protect.exe to encrypt the code. The exe seemed to work until I tried to put use a folder name in the output file name thus:
protect es.lsp L kelvinated\protected\es.lsp
First of all, can I do this? Will protect.exe work like this, or do the input and output file have to be in the same folder?
Also, one time I tried this and I got a "stack overflow" error. Therefore, I am here.
Kelvinator/protect et al are pretty old utilities, do you know the last time they were updated? Subtitle, they may expect old school 8.3 file / folder names.
As for "will this work?", I cannot say, as I use different schemes to protect my work when writing lisp for others (vlx/fas, bricscad's encryptor, my own loader / obfuscators ...).
A stack overflow in this context suggests a recursion error, perhaps when it tries to reconcile the pathing you're providing.
Have you tried to use the DOS short path? Putting the path in quotes? Using forward slashes? Using double backslashes?
What happens if you pass "/?" (and alternates) on the command line, does it provide any help?
Finally, if it refuses to process the files unless they share they same directory you could always front end with with a batch file that does the housekeeping for you.
Michael.
I have been given a set of COBOL DAT, IDX and KEY files and I need to read the data in them and export it into Access, XLS, CSV, etc. I do not know the version, vendor of the COBOL code as I only have the windows executable that created the files.
I have tried Easysoft and Parkway ODBC drivers but I have not been successful in reading the data from the files.
I do not have access to the source code as the company that was distributing this product shut down.
I have successfully read some of the dat files using http://www.cobolproducts.com/datafile just now which I came to know through another forum. Most probably I will work with them to help me read the rest of the files that I am having an issue with.
A few possibilities.
1/ See if you can find the names of the people that worked for the company. They may be helpful.
2/ Open the DAT file in a text editor. The data may be decodable from that. If the basic format can be discerned, quick'n'dirty code can be written to extract it.
3/ Open up the executable in an editor, there may be strings in there that indicate which compiler was used, then you can search for info on its file formats. If it's a DOS application, there's a good chance it was either Microsoft or Fujitsu COBOL.
4/ Consider placing job requests on work sites like elance or rentacoder; I don't think there's a cost if the work can't be done successfully.
5/ Hire someone to examine it and advise on the likelihood of recovery.
6/ Get a screen dump of the record contents for every active record and re-construct it from that.
Some of these are pretty hard so your mileage may vary.
Good luck.
I have read COBOL DAT files only with FD, when I do not have the FD, I open the file in a Text Editor, and try to guess the columns, and try again, until I have this working, the big problem with this approach is when the DAT file have COMP columns, that can be any kind of COMP type, but with a litthe patience I cold get this done.
I had tryed Parkway ODBC, but without success.
for anyone going through this journey, I found this in sourceforge: Cobol and RPG data reader and converter
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cobol2j/
Im about to try it, sounds kind of promising