Sytze: As you're coming to learn, depending on Microsoft to maintain their APIs and compatibility from version to version is a gamble.
Unless there's some reason the client wants to edit their invoices after sending, rather than saving in Word, have them save a PDF file. Test out your code to see if you can work with that. That's likely the quickest and simplest solution: get out of Office formats! Second point, don't use '&' unless you absolutely have to: the '&' is shorthand for "recompile this entire line using the values at runtime" and invokes the entire parser and compiler. It is slower, and it also chokes if there are spaces or some special characters in the file name. Most of the time, you can use the parentheses () when just substituting a filename into a command. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4kxhy0aa(v=vs.80).aspx http://www.tomorrowssolutionsllc.com/Articles/Handling%20Code%20that%20Changes%20at%20Runtime.pdf On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 11:46 PM, Sytze de Boer <[email protected]> wrote: > So I have used this approach for 20 years and it has always worked > My client prepares an invoice using Word > The file is "INV"+alltrim(str(invnum))+".DOC" > E.g. INV12345.DOC > > The system says > append general rtfgen from &newfile LINK > > It is then easy to print this on the report > > It seems this no longer works with Win10 > > My thoughts at this time are to no longer store the data in a General > field, and to print the DOC file as part of the report. > BUT, I can't figure how to do that. > I can print pictures, BMP's, Gif's etc, but not a Doc file > > Can anyone throw some light on this, or offer some suggestions? > > -- > Kind regards, > Sytze de Boer > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [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/cacw6n4tczwkd1u3avkj5822_lvm0wjhft2mdwsafbhz76sb...@mail.gmail.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.
