In my case, this had to be a file on the network, available to everyone... Karen
-----Original Message----- From: MikeB <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, Jul 17, 2015 9:55 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Code quit working Why fight city hall? I gave up on this issue several years back and just grab the path of the windows temp folder for the current user, which always guarantees read/write permissions. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Karen > Tellef > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 10:30 AM > To: RBASE-L Mailing List > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Code quit working > > Same thing happened to me when a client had a windows update... A > program regularly saved to a file called File.Txt. All of a sudden > that file became super-protected and could not be overwritten or > viewed. An administrator had to delete the file, then the program > would work once but again the file would be super-protected. Believe > it or not: I changed the program to save to a file named File2.txt, > and it works every time.... Don't ask me why... So try changing the > name of the file. > > Karen > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael J. Sinclair <[email protected]> > To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, Jul 17, 2015 9:00 am > Subject: [RBASE-L] - Code quit working > > > Hi all, > The following code was working perfectly, 2 days ago after a windows > update, it stopped working. The error message is... > > Can not find the U:\note.txt file > > Strange, it works when I trace it. > > --offnote.cmd > SET VAR vpnum REAL > IF vpnum IS NULL OR vpnum = 0 THEN > GOTO END > ENDIF > SET HEADINGS OFF > DROP TABLE offnotes_dup > PROJECT TEMPORARY offnotes_dup FROM offnotes USING * + WHERE patnumbr = > .vpnum UPDATE offnotes_dup SET dictdata = + > '###################################################################### > ######' + WHERE dictdata = 'DICTATED BUT NOT READ TO EXPEDITE FILING' > OUTPUT u:\note.txt > SELECT dictdata FROM offnotes_dup + > WHERE patnumbr = .vpnum ORDER BY rdate_=D linenum=A OUTPUT SCREEN > LAUNCH u:\note.txt ERASE u:\note.txt LABEL END RETURN > > What am I doing wrong?
