[Babase] demog 06b

kfenn kfenn at princeton.edu
Wed Feb 21 16:56:21 EST 2007


Karl,

Thanks.  Yes, working on the programs next week is good timing for me.  
I won't be ready to do the update itself at that point, but I'll be 
starting to compile the demog data and can run some tests with whatever 
I do have.


Tabby

Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>
> On 02/21/2007 01:36:22 PM, kfenn wrote:
>> Karl,
>>
>> Just out of curiosity, are you hoping for us to do the next demog 
>> update entirely through PPA?  Does the status of the conversion 
>> errors have any bearing on whether we use PPA or FoxPro....(it seems 
>> that we would have to have all the errors cleaned and a fully 
>> "converted" babase in PPA,  otherwise we would still be working in 
>> FoxPro).
>
> Yes, we can't just do updates on papio until we're entirely off
> Foxpro and that means no more conversion errors.  It's probably
> time to run the dumptext.prg and compare the output to what's
> on papio after the conversion to see if there's any hidden errors.
>
> I also just found a minior bug in the INTERACT trigger.
> I don't expect any new conversion errors as a result but
> it's always possible.
>
>>
>> I'm just trying to think about scheduling the update...
>
> I want to try to get the programs ready for next week,
> if that helps.
>
> Karl <kop at meme.com>
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