Hi John, When you reported a similar sounding issue last April, I wasn't very much help, for which I am sorry. What I told you then was that we get error 214 mostly when C language I/O routines report errors. One of the last things you asked, or alluded to in that previous thread was that newer Microsoft Windows platforms seem to generate these errors when they didn't use to on earlier versions of Windows, and that is consistent with my experiences: Windows used to behave like UNIX and allow multiple applications to access a file at once, but now it does not, or is far more restricted than it was.
In order to track this down better, I will try and reproduce the setup you describe and see if I can generate the same error. In the meantime, it would help if you included the text of the error message, in a private e-mail or via a post to the bug tracker on Source Forge, along with the program and sample input file, if they are not sensitive. If you can identify which function call(s) the runtime error occurs within, it is possible to convert most runtime errors of this time into failure using &error, and this is best done by turning it on for a specific call and then turning it off afterwards -- that might be a workaround for you until the problem is addressed in a friendlier manner. Regards, Clint ________________________________________ From: John Sampson <jrs....@ntlworld.com> Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 1:22 PM To: Unicon group Subject: [Unicon-group] Output file open in Word - strange error message I have a Unicon program which takes a tab-delimited text file as input and a text file as output. If I run it, then open the output file in Microsoft Word, then run the Unicon program again, run-time error 214 occurs with an 'offending value' of a string of spaces followed by three digits. These do not occur in the input file, so the effect is utterly mysterious. The actual error is that the output file is open in Word. Is there a test I can incorporate in the program that would give a useful error message? Regards John Sampson ______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list Unicon-group@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sponsored by Intel(R) XDK Develop, test and display web and hybrid apps with a single code base. Download it for free now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=111408631&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list Unicon-group@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
