Dennis,
Just got back and am reading through this thread.
Sounds good to me.
At this point I'm getting nervous. Datax quits to BTW, both are
codelocked, never had a problem.... which leaves me feeling like
I'm walking about with no pants <g>.
Ben Petersen
On 1 Sep 2001, at 15:22, Dennis McGrath wrote:
> I have a suggestion for those who want to use the QUIT TO syntax with
> codelocked files and do not want the overhead of all those extra APX's.
> After all, one of the advantages of codelocking is that the number of files
> to distribute is small, usually just 1.
>
> create a file: QUITTOME.CMD containing the following:
> RUN &vRunFile
> RETURN
>
> Use Codelock to make this into an APX say QUITTOME.APX
>
> In your app you can put the command block to execute in the vRunFile
> variable and quit to the QUITTOME.APX
>
> SET VAR vRunFile = 'WHATEVER IN WHICHEVER.APX'
> QUIT TO QUITTOME.APX
>
> This method will allow you to use the cleanup advantages of QUIT TO while
> keeping your file count low. You only have the everhead of one run level to
> give you this desirable result.
>
> I have not tested this method, so those of you who wish this functionality
> will have to experiment with it. Would be interested in knowing the
> results. If it works out well I will probably add support for this to
> RClass, even including the QUITTOME.APX nicely precodelocked in the correct
> mode. So theme RClass would be able to rewrite your QUIT TO FILENAME calls
> so they use this method.
>
> What say all you RClass users? Do you need this functionality?
>
> -- Dennis McGrath
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of Bernie Corrigan
> Sent: Saturday, September 01, 2001 12:37 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Q. about QUIT TO command
>
>
> >In your example the blockname and file name were
> >very short (BT IN BTW.APX).
> >Perhaps there is a limit there?
>
> I just tested that theory and it had no effect.
>
> QUIT TO b IN f
>
> didn't work whereas
>
> RUN b IN f
>
> did.
> --------------------------------------
> In a separate issue an attempted QUIT TO a codelocked command file resulted
> in a string of bad command error messages. I then used RUN and the file
> executed perfectly. Tried QUIT TO immediately after that and the same file
> executed okay. Restarted RBase and the problem disappeared. This was in
> RBW 6.5++.
> ======================================
> At 11:50 AM 9/1/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >> I tried it from R> and all was fine. The block being called is the first
> >> in the APX file... maybe that makes a difference.
> >>
> >> I can't think of anything else that would make it work.
> >
> >In your example the blockname and file name were very short (BT IN
> BTW.APX).
> >Perhaps there is a limit there?
> >--
> >Larry
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