Tip of the day - USER command

[Enrique Arredondo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jerry Rains" <j.rains at allamericanmoving.com>
To: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 11:02 AM
Subject: Tip of the day - USER command


> I've been working with the USER command a lot recently and was having
> problems with it either hanging or blowing up.  I determined that if the
> user presses Break just before the USER command was written to, it caused
> filePro to exit to the shell.  Also, occassionally the USER command would
> hang for reasons I haven't been able to figure out.
>
> In either case I found that if you CLOSE the USER command and then reopen
it
> these things don't happen.  For example, for 'USER pcm =
/var/scripts/pcms'
> you would 'CLOSE pcm'.  This slows things down somewhat, but if you are
> having problems having it blowup or hang, give this a try.
>
> Jerry Rains
> Director, Information Technologies
> All American Moving Group, LLC
> (901) 353-3900 Ext 1360
>
>

I'm having the hanging problem with the USER command 50% of the time!!! let
me try your close solution and let you know.

Thanks