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
>
>

After adding that CLOSE command to my user command it fixed the hanging
problem, it's been running almost 1 week with no problems at all. Filepro
should add on their help screen that you should use close when using this
command or explain more about it. The way it's now shown on the help screen
is useless they should move this description to the "Get more Confused help
screen".

Regards,

E A