import processing must us .wp extension

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Wed Feb 9 05:29:26 PST 2005


Dennis Malen wrote:
> 
> Ken,
> 
> That was probably what happened. It probably read the other ".wp" file I
> had. Then when I copied over it and changed it to ".wp" it worked.
> 
> Can you clarify? If I had a file that did not have ".wp" appended and I
> requested an import from that file without the ".wp" I'm assuming it would
> work. It was only because I had two files named the same and one had the
> extension that the problem arose.
[...]

If you tell filePro to import a file with no extension, and you do not
have PFADDWP=OFF, filePro will add a ".wp" extension.

For example:

    import ascii foo = /tmp/foo f=, r=\n

This will import "/tmp/foo.wp".

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