Michael,
Check the RBASE help for Launch. You have to add the “W” option to wait until the process is finished. My guess as to what is probably happening is, the LAUNCH is started, control returns to RBASE and the file is erased before the launch is finished. The W option will stop the processing until the launch is completed. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael J. Sinclair Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 7:44 PM To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Code quit working I think I may have found a partial solution. In my code, I erase the file after I create it. It seems like the erase command was firing even before the file was finished be created and launched, even though the erase command came after the launch command. I moved the erase command to the top of the code and now it works. Comments?? Mike _____ From: MikeB <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 10:53 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?
