In a message dated 6/23/2004 1:58:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
0005: FILE.2.FIND = 'EDI.TXT'
0006: EXECUTE 'DOS /C DIR /B C:\' CAPTURING X RETURNING Y
0007: ITS.THERE = (INDEX(X, FILE.2.FIND, 1) 0)
This looks like an old way to do it. Perhaps
There really have been a whole heap of complicated solutions offered to
this. I'm glad you have something working, but I'll just suggest the
simplest, most efficient way to tell if an OS pathname exists in UniData is
this:
IF DIR(PATHNAME) THEN
* exists
END ELSE
* doesn't
END
Since you don't
In a message dated 6/22/2004 8:47:20 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I can handle running the 2 functions and scheduling the program to run
every 30 seconds or so, but I'm not quite sure how to poll the directory. The
directory is D:\Roi\PLACON.MAIN\INBOUND.EDI and
D:\...? Sounds like Windows. FWIW in Universe, (HP/UX) I'd do:
open '','INBOUND.EDI' to F.INBOUND else...
loop
readv dummy from F.INBOUND, EDI.TXT, 0 then exists = 1 else exists = 0
if exists then...
sleep 30
repeat
(assuming you have defined INBOUND.EDI in the VOC pointing to
That got me on the right track, thanks. I don't know about other U2 systems, but
UniData required DIR instead of F in the first line of the VOC entry. Everything else
was the same though.
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