Bruce, That's what I did in the end. I re-used the first report that computed the 8.3 filenames to write out a batch file with the move commands and it worked fine.
Thanks again for you advice and concern. Tony -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Bruce Conrad Sent: Monday, June 22, 2009 7:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Filename character length Hi Tony, You certainly could be creating all of your output files and the batch file in the same report. However, I find it simpler to have one report create all the files with 8.3 names, and then, after it completes, I run a separate report that creates the batch file with the move commands. Each move command mentions the 8.3 name and the desired long name. For convenience, I place two computed fields is the panel that drives the report. One computes the 8.3 name and the other computes the desired long name. This makes it very easy to write the two reports. Best wishes, Bruce On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:32 AM, Tony wrote: > Brian, > > I've played with this sequence as Ralph Alvy describes in Mastering > Dataperfect but to no avail. > > At the beginning I thought that with the new version of DP this had > changed > but then on opening the file I realized that the only difference this > sequence makes is that it overwrites the content versus appending it > but the > prompt always pops up. > > Tony > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Brian Hancock > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Filename character length > > > Hi Tony, > > So that you do not get the prompt try this sequence > > Turn File Off (Ctrl-F7,1,9) > Begin Writing to filename in RV (Ctrl-F7, 1,C) > Turn File On (Ctrl-F7,1,A) > > This will cause the same named file to be overwritten without > prompting > > Regards > Brian > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony > Sent: Wednesday, 17 June 2009 4:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Filename character length > > > Bruce, > > Thank you very much. This is just what I needed. I will have DP > number the > output files sequentially and since the filename I want is tagged > within the > file I'll create a batch file with Dataperfect ED editor using > macros paring > the sequential number followed by the name extracted from the file. > It's an > easy workaround the 8.3 hurdle. > > I have just even thought that while I run the original report I'll > include a > couple of lines to open a batch file to collect the filename number > and the > actual name preceded by the move command. The only problem I see > here is > that everytime I write a number-name pair to this .bat file MS-DOS > will warn > me that the file already exists and whether I want to proceed. Do > you know > if there's a way to silence this prompt from the system and just go > ahead > and append. > > Thanks again for the trick. > > Tony > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of Bruce Conrad > Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:51 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Filename character length > > > Hi Tony, > > I do this thing quite often, using a little trick. Since DP can only > create files with 8.3 names, I use names selected in a particular way, > based in some abbreviated way on the actual desired filename. > > Then, in a separate DP report, I create a DEPLOY.BAT batch file > consisting of commands like the following: > > MOVE ACID1.HTM SortAscendingChannelIDPage1.html > MOVE ACID2.HTM SortAscendingChannelIDPage2.html > ... > MOVE DM2.HTM SortDescendingMonikerPage2.html > > Then, after running the report which creates all of 8.3 named files, I > exit DP and run the DEPLOY.BAT program to rename the files to the > desired names. > > Hope this technique helps. > > Best wishes, > Bruce > > On Jun 16, 2009, at 3:46 AM, Tony wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> I'm using the "Open filename in RV" report option and I need to be >> able to >> write filenames longer that the 8 character-long + 3 character >> extension >> constraint set by MS-DOS. >> >> Does anybody know of a way to circumvent this limitation? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Tony >> http://eubd1.ugr.es >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Dataperf mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf > > _______________________________________________ > Dataperf mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf _______________________________________________ Dataperf mailing list [email protected] http://lists.dataperfect.nl/mailman/listinfo/dataperf
