displays of 'iggorance' are common in this industry. I bought a book on dotnet for VFP programmers and ended up learning more about VFP including things it is embarassing that i didnt know. in the end, as long as your app works, how you did it isnt as important.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sytze de Boer Sent: Tuesday, 24 November 2009 9:34 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Appending problem But I'm a bit reluctant to share cos it shows my iggorance ........... Anyway, here's what happened The barcode reader function would copy a file into a designated folder (freetask.upd) I originally set this up (\optiscan) and made a batch file to copy this into the app folder when required. I did it this way for specific reasons but won't bore you with details. The application was accessed by the workstation, where the app was in a drive (T:) My app would import the files from the \optiscan folder i.e. ! import.bat The \optiscan folder had an empty file called freetask.upd (That was the killer because my import routine always checked to make sure the file freetask.upd did indeed exist) Without my knowledge, they had changed the barcode set up to download the file directly into the app folder, so everytime they ran the import routine, it was copying the empty freetask.upd file Running it from my Remote Desktop, the optiscan folder was not accessible so the "true" file was not overwritten, hence it was working as designed. Some of the comments made by you (my buddies) made me check "outside the square" and I discovered the problem now for my next challenge................... Did any of you like my Excel 2007 import workaround ? On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Tina Currie <[email protected]> wrote: > Michael's echoing my thoughts. Do share. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Michael Madigan" <[email protected]> > To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 7:41 PM > Subject: Re: Appending problem > > > So what was the problem? > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** 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.
