The CLOSE command

[Jeff Harrison]

--- Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net> wrote:

> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Thu, 16 Feb 2006 12:05:48
> -0500):
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:10:09AM -0500, Howard
> Wolowitz wrote:
> > > Subject: The CLOSE command
> > >
> > > If I do lookups to multiple files using the same
> lookup name (a common
> > > practice at Aljex) and then I issue a CLOSE for
> that lookup name -
> > > what happens?
> [...]
> > I would assume that when you re-use the lookup tag
> for a new file, that
> > the old one's handle is automatically closed, but
> I might be wrong; it
> > may just be that the tag->file association is
> broken.
> 
> The latter.
> 

So I guess that in order to prevent these stranded
files one would need to make sure that a close is
executed before the tag is associated with a new file,
or else re-execute the lookup that you wish to close
prior to issuing another close.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

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

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