I agree. The problem that has mysterously arose is that I have been naming just the
8 digit filename files by adding text to the end using the ? placeholder character. Now for some reason, the placeholder is not acting consistently in that Dir ABCD???.??? returns all files such as ABCDEFGHIJK.xxx even though there are many more characters than designated by the (3-???) placeholders. What seems to be happening is that less than a total of 8 characters work. I.E. DIR ABCD??.??? will retrieve only filenames with 6 characters starting with ABCD. Will see what the shortname command does, although I am still at a loss for why it has been working and then quit. Even more so, why it quit over the weekend when no one was on the system at all! Below are files that had been renamed by the existing program without error Friday, but stopped on Saturday. I have literally hundreds of files in archive that this has worked on over the past several months. But it sure is not working now??? I am sure there is an explanation, I just cannot find it. Volume in drive g has no label. Directory of g:\edisoft\sales\home depot westcoast\recv\ RC122A~1 001 9652 7-31-09 10:33a RC090731sent10_37.001 RC5CD9~1 001 2248 7-31-09 10:03a RC090731sent10_6.001 RC1A29~1 001 6652 7-31-09 11:33a RC090731sent11_39.001 RC0907~1 002 4228 7-31-09 11:03a RC090731sent11_40.002 RC0907~1 003 270 7-31-09 3:35p RC090731sent11_40.003 RC0907~1 004 3000 7-31-09 3:35p RC090731sent11_40.004 RC0907~1 008 1354 7-31-09 2:05p RC090731sent11_40.008 RC6CD7~1 001 4145 7-31-09 11:03a RC090731sent11_8.001 RC160E~1 001 1648 7-31-09 12:34p RC090731sent12_40.001 RC6CD9~1 001 1510 7-31-09 12:04p RC090731sent12_9.001 RC1A0B~1 001 5028 7-31-09 1:04p RC090731sent13_11.001 RC121A~1 001 270 7-31-09 2:05p RC090731sent14_13.001 RC0907~4 002 270 7-31-09 2:05p RC090731sent14_13.002 RC1619~1 001 2157 7-31-09 3:05p RC090731sent15_14.001 RC162B~1 002 3180 7-31-09 3:35p RC090731sent15_44.002 RC1E1F~1 001 1007 7-31-09 5:06p RC090731sent17_16.001 RC1E2F~1 002 3547 7-31-09 5:06p RC090731sent17_16.002 RC1E1C~1 001 294 7-31-09 6:36p RC090731sent18_46.001 ----- Original Message ----- From: "MikeB" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2009 11:35:25 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: filename characters Also, the ? character is the placeholder for a character, so: Dir abcde??.??? is not the same as Dir abcde?.??? ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 10:48 AM Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: filename characters Does anyone have insight on the following results? I am at a loss..... R>dir checka??.??? Volume in drive G has no label. Directory of G:\RBTI\Edi_V8\ CheckAWM txt 543 1-23-09 9:51a CheckAWM.txt CHECKA~1 TXT 480 1-23-09 9:52a CheckAlex.txt CHECKA~2 TXT 543 1-23-09 9:51a checkalex111.txt 3 File(s) 1566 bytes 115894489088 bytes free R>dir checkal?.??? File not found The second dir should have returned the last two files above, but did not. The first dir should not have returned the last two files but did. Can someone confirm like behaviour on thier system or is something awry on my install. As I stated before, this worked fine for many months, but I would not think a database corruption would effect a file handling command. Thanks, -Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "ttc inc" <[email protected]> To: "RBASE-L Mailing List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 3, 2009 9:19:08 AM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central Subject: [RBASE-L] - filename characters Are there any settings that effect filename wildcard characters? (Turbo V8) (Other than the set single command) I have a program that has ran fine for many months. It runs 24 hours 7 days per week via a form timer. This weekend it stopped running. The code that quit working is : --Rename the Merchant EDI files so that users can discern if they have --been sent via this program and that this program will not reprocess same files at --a later time. Include a time stamp to prevent duplicate file names SET VAR voldfile TEXT = ('G:\Edisoft\Sales\HOME DEPOT WESTCOAST\recv\RC??????.???') SET VAR vnewfile TEXT = ('????????sent' + (CTXT(IHR(.#TIME)) ) + '_' + (CTXT(IMIN(.#TIME)) ) + '.???' ) RENAME .voldfile &vnewfile (The . and & are intentional and I believe correct. In any case it worked before and I have tried various combinations this morning, without success) This code has worked without issue for many months. I have several hundred archive files that prove the rename command worked in the past. Now it does not. All file names start out such as RC20090801.001, RC20090801.002, RC20090801.003 etc. The rename command should rename them to RC20090801sent_0824.001, RC20090801sent_0824.002, RC20090801sent_0825.003 and has done so in the past for hundreds of files. This weekend it stopped working. The voldfile RC??????.??? now picks up all files that start with RC, even if the filename has more that 8 characters. This did not use to happen. I.E. previously the above voldfile would not include any RC20090801sent_0824.001 files as they were longer than 8 characters. It seems like the single character wild card is not working now for some reason. I have checked the single character wildcard and it is set properly. I might find some other work around, but I need to find out why it worked before and not now. Any thoughts??? Thanks, -Bob created
