Hey there Ted! I'm using Win7 Pro SP1. And, yes, same Version of VFP w/.5815 at the end. And, nope - file name didn't have the colon - it's the CustomText field that has the colon. And, correct - if I just do PUTFILE by hand in the command window - it Always works right. The strange issue only happens when the system is running. And, yes, in my case - Windows Explorer does indeed show the extensions.
-K- -----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 1:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: A Quirk w/the PUTFILE Function? On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Kurt Wendt <[email protected]> wrote: > Regarding your other suggestions like Concatenating and such - I have not > tried them yet. I will try them shortly to see if that has any impact on the > problem. At the moment I am working on another issue - so I will have to come > back to This problem as soon as I can and try your suggestions. It seems to me that if you're asking PUTFILE() to put up a dialog showing only files of extensions "XLS" but you give it a default name that doesn't have the XLS, well, I can understand why it might be confused. Windows does such a poor job of optionally showing file extensions. What version of Windows are you running? Does the Window explorer usually show extensions? when I issue: ? PUTFILE("Custom text","text with spaces in the filename","XLS") it displays and returns "text with spaces in the filename.XLS" if I CD to a network drive and repeat the test, I see the same result. I'm running VFP 9.0, version(4) says "09.00.0000.5815" Perhaps you've already addressed this in the message thread, but I didn't see it: there's a colon in the original file name. That won't work for me, or likely on Windows, I get an "Invalid path or filename" error. [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/80838f1ca795b14ea1af48659f35166f1b9...@drexch02.corp.globetax.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
