Chdir problem

[GCC Consulting]

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> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf 
> Of Fairlight
> Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 8:21 PM
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> Subject: Re: Chdir problem
> 
> Yo, homey, in case you don' be listenin', GCC Consulting done said:
> 
> > What I would like to do is have use filePro 's system 
> command to print 
> > this report.
> >
> > Sounds simple however this is a functional acknowledgement 
> from there 
> > customers and each acknowledgement is located in a 
> different directory.
> > It looks something like this:
> >
> > C:\edate\GEIS-A\customer_name\ANSI\997\all\997.rpt
> >
> > The variable here is the customer name and the date of the file 
> > 997.rpt
> >
> > I need to search each customer directory, get the name and if 
> > 997.rpt's date is equal to today's date, store the 
> directory name in an array.
> > Once I have all of the positives, I would the loop through 
> the array 
> > appending the name into the command an printing the report.
> >
> > Any suggestions on how to best accomplish this will be greatly 
> > appreciated.
> 
> Are you trying to do all this in fP, or use an external?

Since the EDI program( not fp) which generates the 977.rpt ASCII file isn't
printing it correctly, I want use fp to "walk" thru each directory and using the
system command, print the report.

There are at least 8 possible edi customer directories which have to be checked
for a current 997.rpt file.

 
> I mean, if you have a report and simply need to print a 
> report for any customer name whose 997.rpt is of today's 
> date, this is something that's trivial to do in perl, and you 
> could just execute *report from inside there.  Unless they 
> did something really cool with time and date as far as 
> handling files (I remember Ken mentioning some @STAT array or 
> something very similar, though I forget when it's populated) 
> that might have this info, it's going to be a PITA to obtain 
> and convert that internally to anything useful.
> 
> What you're trying to do could be done as a cron job, system 
> call, or whatever, with a tiny little perl program doing the 
> grunt work.  Not hard.

Can't use cron as this is a Windows system.  I can have the EDI program initiate
the batch file to run this program.


> Probably not the way you'd like to do it, but it's how -I- 
> would do it, given the same problem--assuming I understand it fully. 

Also, I would prefer to stay with fp and the programs available without
installing another program.

Richard Kreiss
GCC Consulting