Bill, I think that did the trick. You saved me some grief (again<g>). The routine failed once on my system... but I may have fat fingered something, as all was well for the next two tests. We'll see how it survives on my customer's system.
Thanks, Ben Petersen On 4 Feb 2003, at 7:37, William Cook wrote: > That's scary. Do you suppose setting the PKUNZIP.EXE attribute to read > only might help? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ben Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:46 PM > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Probs with zip > > > > Has anyone else experienced this? > > > > I have a routine that writes a batch file and then zips out to > execute > > it. The batch file runs pkunzip.exe and mt.exe. The problem is that > > both pkunzip and mt are corrupted after being run. The size of both > > is reduced. This is only true if the batch executes these two files > in > > the same directory as the batch file and from within RBase. If they > > only reside on the path (not in the same directory) it's not a > > problem. > > > > Ben Petersen > > > > What's odd is that I, and several customers, ran this routine > heavily > > last year without a hitch (the routine processes annual dues > > payments from a remote site). > > > > >
