There might be some security feature of catalina that is affecting you. The file you are trying to access looks to be in your user folder.
Assuming your J starts with the current directory as your user folder then you could try: freadblock 'Documents/OrderInserted.txt';0 On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 10:26 AM Eric Iverson <[email protected]> wrote: > A few quick ideas. > > The failure is on 1!:4 (which is fsize). The same fsize code worked in > your test with file.txt. This might imply there is something wrong with the > particular file that fails. > > Try with a few other other files and try simpler and different ways of > accessing OrderInserted.txt. For example, does fread work. Can you load > that file in the mac text edit app. > > I think this is more likely a problem with that file, than with catalina. > > > On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 5:14 AM Pablo Landherr <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> JVERSION >> Engine: j807/j64/darwin >> Release-d: commercial/2019-03-18T16:07:14 >> Library: 8.07.26 >> Qt IDE: 1.7.10/5.9.8 >> Platform: Darwin 64 >> Installer: J807 install >> InstallPath: /applications/j64-807 >> Contact: www.jsoftware.com >> >> Whenever I try to read existing files (which I could the other day) I get: >> >> freadblock '/Volumes/Macintosh >> HD/Users/pla/Documents/OrderInserted.txt';0 >> |interface error: freadblock >> | s=. 1!:4<f >> >> But this works >> >> 'Test text' fappends 'file.txt' >> 10 >> freadblock 'file.txt';0 >> ┌──────────┬──┐ >> │Test text │10│ >> └──────────┴──┘ >> ferase 'file.txt' >> 1 >> >> Is there a known issue with Catalina? What is my best course of action? >> >> Kind regards, >> Pablo Landherr >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
