-RO causes an error

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Dennis Malen <dmalen at malen.com> wrote:

> I am using a menu line with the following:
> 
> /appl/fp/rclerk msx -s7 -RO
> 
> I get the following error:
> 
> *** A System Error Has Occurred ***            
> /appl/filepro/msx.atty/index.A: Bad file number
> 
> In auto processing I am looking up the file
> msx.atty.
> 
> If I remove the -RO everything works fine.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Dennis Malen
> 
> 

This sounds like a bug.  In my opinion filepro should
not give you such an error for any reason.

I have had similar problems with the -ro flag, when I
was using 4.8 filepro on HPUX unix.  That version had
quite a few problems, of course, so this was the least
of my troubles.

That said, are you perhaps doing a write in automatic
processing?  In general this is bad form and should be
avoided IMO.  Perhaps that in conjunction with the -ro
is giving filepro fits.  Try using the -y flag to
bypass automatic processing.

Have you tried using PFREADONLY? If I remember
properly I actually was able to use PFREADONLY when
-ro was causing problems. 

Are you using the current version of filepro?

Good Luck

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHExport and JHImport.  The easiest and
fastest way to generate code for filePro exports and
imports.


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