-RO causes an error

[Dennis Malen]

Jeff,

I am on 4.8.

I am doing lookups in auto proc. I can't deactivate as the lookups are 
critical to the record info for viewing.

Thanks for your response.

Dennis
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Harrison" <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
To: "Dennis Malen" <dmalen at malen.com>; <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: -RO causes an error


> --- 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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