Upgrade Guide - Prolifics

The dd5upg UtilityRelease 5 Widgetsf5upg attempts to convert every widget it can according to the heuristics discussedabove under “General Behavior” on page 4-14. If, however, the -5 option is specified,the widget is left unconverted as a JAM release 5 field on a release 7 screen. JAM 7attempts to deal with such fields to achieve a stricter backwards compatibility, butthese fields are much harder to manipulate in the JAM 7 editor, and are more difficultto convert to future releases of the product. You may wish to do the conversion withthe -5 option and later do a full conversion. Please note that the presence of a JAM/Piextension specifying widget type overrides this option, and the field is convertednonetheless.The dd5upg UtilityThe dd5upg utility converts JAM 5 data dictionaries into JAM/Panther repositories.The utility should be invoked from the command line with the following syntax:dd5upg [-cflv] [-p prefix] [-e ext] JAM5dd repositoryArguments and OptionsJAM5ddThe name of the JAM 5 data dictionary.repositoryThe name of the JAM/Panther repository.-c-f-lCreate compact JAM/Panther screens.Output file may overwrite an existing file.Generate a screen library, ldb.lib, to be used as the LDB.Upgrade Guide 4-21