Dan My two cents worth.
The problems you are experiencing here only reinforce my long standing belief that though maintaining lots and lots of little ASCII files is a challenge, it is still prefererable to the many hassles of dealing with codelocked files!! David Blocker ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Champion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 1:22 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Trace/Crashing - Razzak's Reply > > Dennis, > I agree, I would have liked them to have used the standard quoting ', > however there are at least 600 programs (including eeps) Reports with > variables, forms with variables that use the double quotes. > I do have the main menu program (the running program that calls the form > that calls this particular form that disconnects from the DB, sets the > quotes "", then reconnects, then disconnects and stays disconnected > between every menu choice. So the quotes are set and reset by every user > all day long. (had to to this a couple of years ago to resolve quote issues.) > I wish I had the time available to edit every program and use standard > quoting, however it isn't feasible. > In short, the set quotes = " "" " command was issued just previous to > calling this apx. > > Javier..... I think you hit a nail on the head.... my ASCII file I didn't > name .app, but .eep so it woulnd't get erased when I delete the .apx > from Rbase. I will rename it to .app and see if that lets me step through it. > > > Dan > > At 08:30 AM 2/21/03 -0800, you wrote: > > >Dan, > > > > > $COMMAND > > > inform2 > > > SET ERROR MESSAGES OFF > > > CLEAR V i* > > > SET V imessage = + > > > "You may search based on any known information. Just click + > > > on the field you do have information about and fill it in. Then hit > > > enter. + > > > You only need to fill in one field" > > > >You are using non-standard quotes. Codelock assumes the single quote. > > > >You have two options: > > > >1. Put SET QUOTES="""" at the top of the first command block of every > >command file: > > > >$COMMAND > >inform2 > >SET QUOTES="""" > >SET ERROR MESSAGES OFF > > > >2. Go throught the work to convert to single quotes. It is worth the > >trip, but time consuming. > > > >Dennis McGrath > > > > Dan Champion > P.O. Box 223 > Grandville, MI. 49428-0223 > www.championsolutions.net >

