Claudine Try “SET TRACE ON” right before your ERASE and then take a look at the variable.
Don’t forget to “SET TRACE OFF” right after the ERASE Buddy From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Claudine Robbins Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 6:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [RBASE-L] - ERASE filespec Thanks Jan. I tried this to no avail. :( From: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of jan johansen Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 2:30 PM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [RBASE-L] - ERASE filespec Claudine, You can try this (untested). SET VAR vQuotes = (CVAL('QUOTES')) SET VAR vfilename1 TEXT = NULL SET VAR vfilename2 TEXT = NULL SET VAR vDeleteFileCommand TEXT = ('DELETE ' + .vQuotes +.vfilename2 + .vQuotes) SET VAR vCopyFileCommand TEXT = ('COPY ' + .vQuotes + .vfilename1 + .vQuotes &.vQuotes + .vfilename2 + .vQuotes) &vDeleteFileCommand PAUSE FOR 2 &vCopyFileCommand Jan -----Original Message----- From: Claudine Robbins <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > To: "[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> " <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2017 19:35:45 +0000 Subject: [RBASE-L] - ERASE filespec Hello all, I’m having a bit of a headache with an ERASE filespec command which has worked reliably for weeks, works reliably from the R:> prompt and yields “Failed deleting… (2262)” then “Cannot create destination file (2086)” from within a form when I: ERASE .filename2 And COPY .filename1 .filename2 Permissions are ok… Undoubtedly my fault but I can’t find it, help! TIA, Claudine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBASE-L" 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.
