Unfortunately for this customer, at this time I must work with RBASE 6.1a. I will be attending the 7.0 seminar in 2 weeks (YEA!!!). The purpose of that is to analyze a complete migration of our product from 6.1a to 6.5++ to 7.0! But, for now, I must solve this issue using 6.1a conventions. We don't anticipate a complete migration until January 2003.
Thanks, David R. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of A. Razzak Memon Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 7:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Long File Names - Razzak's Reply At 07:25 AM 9/5/2002 -0700, David Ratliff wrote: > I am working on an interface exporting data from RBASE 6.1 as an >ASCII delimited file to a 3rd party app. The 3rd party app requires the >filename contain an 18 character name with a 3 character extension. > The 3rd party app requires I use the system date as the unique ID >for the last 6 characters of the filename. I can not figure out how to >precede my 6 character filename with the 12 additional characters >(CSD1INVOICE_). > Once the job is complete I will have created an ASCII delimited file >using the name CSD1INVOICE_######.DAT where ###### is the current date of >the export (unique ID) out of RBASE. > Any ideas how I might achieve a rename from short to long from RBASE >or DOS batch? I have tried XCOPY in a DOS batch file but that seems to work >only if I append the 12 additional characters. Unfortunately I need them to >precede the RBASE output filename. This is the last step in the design and >must be automated for the user. David, The Glorious R:BASE 2000 (ver 6.5++), Build:1.855xRT03 and higher for Windows supports Long_File_Names with Long_Extensions. Very Best Regards, Razzak. ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/ ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: INTRO rbase-l ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] In the message body, put just two words: UNSUBSCRIBE rbase-l ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: http://www.mail-archive.com/rbase-l%40sonetmail.com/
