RE: [mv] Question too difficult??

["Christopher Thompson" <ct@arborinternet.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Christopher Thompson" <ct@arborinternet.com>     ******

Just a guess on your problem. You have to have accessed the data file with
a Minivend tag before the tag_data() will work in your [per] statement. I
don't know why, but I'm sure there is a reason, good or no. There is a
[tag touch] command or something like that you can use.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Scott
> Satterthwaite
> Sent: Tuesday, February 08, 2000 10:36 AM
> To: 'minivend-users@minivend.com'
> Subject: RE: [mv] Question too difficult??
>
>
> ******    message to minivend-users from Scott Satterthwaite
> <ssattert@homier.com>     ******
>
> Barry and all:
>
> Your're right.  I'm guilty on all counts.
> I couldn't resist the urge to stir the fire a little...has to do with
> the frustration level of spending more than a week an the same silly
> issue.
>
> As for the crack about ASP, I was actually implying (not successfully)
> that I could write my site using ASP (my forte: Visual Basic, Pascal,
> SQL) in much less time that I had been spending trying to figure out a
> few minor details in Minivend.  Details, I might add, that have mostly
> to do with my lack of PERL experience.  For the record, PERL makes a
> hell of a lot more sence to me this week than it did last week.
>
> I have lot of faith in Linux as a Web platform. Moreso than NT (that is
> coming from an NT administrator).  You can't argue with the proven
> success of Apache.
> And, all-in-all, Mike Heins has done one heck of a job developing a very
> workable e-commerce solution and I'm sure the program will continue to
> evolve and improve
> (THANK YOU MIKE!). You sure can't argue with Minivend's pricetag.
>
> As for this list; I have seen a lot of questions answered and some
> ignored.  Overall, I think everyone is very helpfull. When my experience
> allows it, I try to help out.
>
> As for my original question that has yet to be addressed:  It had to do
> with the tag_data routine in Vend::Interpolate.  If anyone wants a crack
> at it, let me know and I'll re-post it.
>
> Thanks for the help I've received from everyone.
>
> Scott Satterthwaite
> Webmaster, LAN Administrator
> Homier Mobile Merchants
>
> ________
>
> Barry Treahy wrote:
>
> I don't know what the original question was regarding MV, but this
> definitely
> qualifies as a
> stupid statement presuming that ASP users can or will answer questions
> related to MV or
> visa-versa.  Definitely not apples-to-apples.
>
> I for one am truly amazed at the number of people willing to help and
> answer
> novice questions
> today, when compared to even a year ago when I started.  THANK YOU
> ALL!!!  When examined over the
> past 18 months period, the participation has increased several orders of
> magnitude, though the
> patience of novice people haven't.  I didn't have patience 18 months
> ago, but I also didn't give
> up so quickly either...
>
> If there are any words of wisdom from a recovering-novice to a novice,
> cool your jets, roll-up
> your sleaves, and put some effort into resolving the problem yourself.
>
> If your original problem went unanswered, it is probably because it
> never actually posted, it
> posted but has been answered ten zillion times and can be found in the
> archives, or the question
> was so poorly stated that people couldn't understand why you are asking
> how to run ASP pages on a
> Amiga with a Revel Blender front-end.
>
> My two cents.
>
> Barry Treahy
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