Re: [pilot-db-list] pdbtools questions

[Thomas R. <tr...@or...>]

Hi Hans,

Here are some answers to your question. I hope I'll have time to answer 
all your questions later.

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> Question 1
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> In the manual it says:
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The english manual is out of date, I beleive a new manual is on the way. 
If you can read French, there is an html doc in the archive.

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> Question 2
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> Are other types supported too, such as date?
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all types are supported excepted link and linked.
Calculated fields are partially supported: the scripts are lost in the 
pdb->csv process, but if you do csv->pdb using the merge mode you can 
retreive the scripts from the original pdb file.
Note fields are supported but you must use the extended CSV mode if the 
note contains some carriage return characters.

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> Question 4
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> the option
>  option systemPWD on
> does not have any effect! Why is this?

I don't know. I will try to look in the code later.

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> I created a general csv2pdb.bat file with the foll line in it:
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> csv2pdb -i in.ifo in.txt out.pdb
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> whereby the -i stands for "Read the info FILE for the metadata"
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the -i option does not read metadata from in.ifo but only format options.
For instance, in your in.ifo file, the only useful lines are:

 > format date %d/%m/%Y
 > extended on
 > separator ,

all other lines are ignored

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> Question 5
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> Is there a reason for not mentioning time separately?

you can use
   format time...
exactly as you use
   format date...

Thomas