Jim, Making the scratch directory if it's not there just seemed a sensible safeguard.
I know my C:\Temp is there and that I'll never - even accidentally - delete it <g> but I can imagine in business circumstances when a new PC is set up and R:Base installed and although whenever I did that I _always_ (and a very big <g> there) created the directory and the set commands in the autoexec.bat, the techie doing it might not. Either way, it should only ever access that section of the code once - I'd take a crash then without thinking twive about it but not nearly every time it accessed the set scratch part of the code. Thanks & regards, Alastair. PS: I still haven't had a chance to look at your code but I will do so later. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Limburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 12:57 PM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Setting Scratch, scratch files and R:Base crashes > Alastair > > One area I can think of that my area of code doesn't cover is to actually > make it's own directory. I have wondered if this would be needed, but I have > had such good luck with the code, that I haven't pursued it. It would be a > good idea that when it gets down to the part where it is just going to use > the same directory rbase resides in to change it to create the c:\temp > directory, check for it's existence and then use it. I have always thought > in the back of my mind that this would be better, but alas, I hate to > fool with code when I know it's working.. Too many other projects on the > table. > > Jim > > Alastair Burr wrote: > > Jim & Mike, > > > > Jim, I've not had time to peruse your code yet but thanks, I'll check it out > > tomorrow. > > Mike, we've been there & discussed that already. I still find that > > CrashGuard saves me more than it causes problems - at least with R:Base. > > More often than not, I can save an R:Base session with CrashGuard, at least, > > enough to save and exit and re-start. That said, it's _very_ rare for > > anything else to crash. > > > > If v7 ever materialises I'll try it without C/G first... > > > > Regards, > > Alastair. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "MikeB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 6:56 PM > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Setting Scratch, scratch files and R:Base crashes > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jim Limburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 7:41 PM > > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Setting Scratch, scratch files and R:Base crashes > > > > >
