Thank you all for the responses. It was the "extra" quotes that caused the problem! I will look into the multi-part file possibility.
Appreciate the prompt responses. Marc On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 7:34 PM Bruce Willmore <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a thought. I don’t know if this is a new application or not, but if > it is, have you considered Multi-part files? > > > *From:* Dick Thiot > *Sent:* Friday, November 16, 2018 5:22 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: Create-file question > > Marc, > > Your create statement assumes that there is already a dictionary section. > Are you wanting to create a new data section underneath and existing file > or a new file with both dictionary and data sections. Also, I agree with > Peter. Get rid of the double-quotes. If the latter then try: > EXECUTE \CREATE-FILE DATA \:FILENAME:\1 11\ > > Dick > > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 4:04 PM Peter Falson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Get rid of the " around the \FILENAME \ >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Nov 16, 2018, at 11:25 AM, Marc <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I'm trying to EXECUTE a CREATE-FILE command as shown below and I'm >> obviously screwing up the punctuation... >> >> FILENAME = VNAME:".PRICE" >> OPEN ''",FILENAME TO F.OUT ELSE >> EXECUTE \CREATE-FILE DATA "\:FILENAME:\"\ 11\ >> OR >> >> EXECUTE \CREATE-FILE DATA "\:FILENAME:\" 11\ >> >> What am I doing wrong?? >> >> Thanks! >> >> -- >> -- >> IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. >> >> To post, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "jBASE" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> -- >> IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. >> >> To post, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "jBASE" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > -- > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "jBASE" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. > > To post, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the > Google Groups "jBASE" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/jbase/ISxqGXUcj2Q/unsubscribe. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- IMPORTANT: T24/Globus posts are no longer accepted on this forum. To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jBASE" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
