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Translation Automation / Batch
Apr 13th, 2004 at 5:37pm
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Is there a way to automate database translation? Is it necessary to translate databases 1 at a time? What workaround is there for someone with 300+ databases?
  
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Re: Translation Automation / Batch
Reply #1 - Apr 13th, 2004 at 5:50pm
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You have to translate them one at a time. It is not that bad. Once you do a few of them, it will go fast. Are your databases are related? Do they combiningly make an application? If so you will have to do little planning as to what to merge and what to be left as separate a application.
  
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Reply #2 - Apr 13th, 2004 at 6:40pm
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The command line option "-qa QA_FILE.DTF" was disabled just before the initial release. It was intended for batch translations. I can check with marketing to see if I can reenabled it for the next release.



  

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Reply #3 - Apr 13th, 2004 at 7:15pm
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Come on Walt, why are you discouraging him? He has 300 different databases!!! With your estimate it will take quite a long time.  Grin Grin Grin

  
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Reply #4 - Apr 13th, 2004 at 7:45pm
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Translation process is not time consuming. (make sure that you prepare properly before translation as per translation guide).  But it is really going through the codes and redesigning the forms that takes time.
  
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Reply #5 - Apr 13th, 2004 at 8:05pm
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Walt .... You got me there.  I could be wrong and guilty as charged.  Smiley
  
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Re: Translation Automation / Batch
Reply #6 - Apr 14th, 2004 at 2:51am
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On a second thought, I am right. Walt, how quickly and conveniently did you forget!!! -  a dot (.) which means "male".  Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin Grin
  
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Reply #7 - Apr 14th, 2004 at 3:10pm
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Erika ("Hammer") is right - in Windows and on Unix, the "." means "here". Just like ".." means one directory up from "here". It is the operating system's "shorthand" for the current directory. It has meant that since 1970.

So if you specify a file to read:

C:\> sesame .\this_file.db

That means read that file from the CWD.

It has nothing to do with Sesame - it is an operating system construct used in both Windows (and DOS) and Unix.
  

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