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Question: I have a client with a PowerBuilder application, but no source code. Is there a way to reverse-engineer or recover the source code?? Answer: It is not possible to

Question: I am creating a “Change Password” screen in PowerBuilder 5.0. The window basically accepts the password entered by the user, verifies it by connecting to the database, then tries

Question: I am attempting to run a series of externalapplications within JAVA. I need the resultsof the prev. application piped as input to thefollowup application. I understand the spawningof the

Question: After about 4 hours of work, I’d come up with an application (alltext, runs from the command line) that asks for a starting directory,and recursively writes all of that

Question: Is it possible to use Java to execute a command on Unix and get the output from that command? Answer: Yes. The java.lang.Runtime class has various exec() methods thatcan

Question: I have a place in my Active Server Page script (VBScript) where I’d like to wait for 1 second before performing an action. What can one do to cause

Question: Can you help me to get a calculated value from many records? A dataset(Paradox table) that I use has an Integer field which is used to put minutes value.

Question: How do you make a percent bar with the Win 95look and feel? I know that you can make a percentbar using a picture box, but I am trying

Question: I need to calculate the number of workingdays. Is there an easy way to do this? Answer: From what I can see, there is no built-in function to do