On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Clinton Jeffery wrote:
> Steve,
>
> An update: the situation is weirder than I thought. :-)
>
[...]
>
> Then I tried building exe's directly in the install under \Program Files\
> that I was testing. And I got the same message you reported below. Windows
> seems to allow ui to write text files, but not executables, to a directory
> under \Program Files\, or maybe under any directory that was created by a
> software installer tool. This may be new to Win7 or may have been introduced
Due to this?
> > icont: cannot create farb.exe
The diagnostics could probably be improved on that, perhaps. Several reasons
exist for not being able to write to a directory: Permissions, disk full,
nonexistent directory, off the top of my head.
> earlier. Another observation which is much, much weirder, is that on my
> machine at least, the text files that I wrote in \Program Files\Unicon\bin
> show up under the "file open" dialog which says it is at \Program
> Files\Unicon\bin; I can save, close "ui", rerun "ui", open them and the
> contents are there... but the same source file does not appear under the
> explorer or on the command prompt "dir" listing. So it is like there are
> two different "C:\Program Files\Unicon\bin", one that shows to the program
> installed there, and one that the rest of the world sees. I presume this is
> a valuable security upgrade.
I'm wondering if you are doing this as the same user, or whether one of
this is set to display hidden files and one not. But those are just guesses.
Is one of them set to "run as administrator"?
>
> Writing to a separate directory c:\foo, my saved .icn and resulting .exe
> seem normal and OK.
>
[...]
>
> Cheers,
> Clint
Hugh
>
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Steve Graham
> <solitary.wandere...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> > Clint,
> >
> > What am I doing wrong here?
> >
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\Unicon\ipl\progs>icont farb.icn
> > Translating:
> > farb.icn:
> > main
> > No errors
> > Linking:
> > icont: cannot create farb.exe
> >
> > C:\Program Files (x86)\Unicon\ipl\progs>
> >
>
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