Too Many Open Files (was Re: The CLOSE command)

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeff Harrison" <jeffaharrison at yahoo.com>
To: "Tony Ryder" <tryder at westnet.com.au>; "FPlist" 
<filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 5:08 PM
Subject: RE: Too Many Open Files (was Re: The CLOSE command)


> --- Tony Ryder <tryder at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> [top posting fixed]
> [... Jeff Wrote]
>> |That works fine unless you have multiple lookups
>> that
>> |re-use the same alias.  For example:
>> |
>> |lookup fil = file1 k=ky i=a -nx
>> |lookup fil = file2 k=ky i=a -nx
>> |lookup fil = file3 k=ky i=a -nx
>> |close fil
>> |
>> |The above code only closes the open files from
>> file3.
>> |I would like an option to close all of the open
>> files
>> |from lookups.
>> |
>> |Jeff Harrison
>> |jeffaharrison at yahoo.com
>>
>> close would close all open files.
>>
>> If you mean you only want to close open files
>> within the call or chained processing table
>> then you would have to use close filename
>> for each open filename.
>>
>> Tony Ryder
>>
>
> Um, have you tried the code that I posted previously
> that proves that this is not the case?
>
> Here it is again:

He said close, not close alias
I don't know if that works any better in this exact case but it's worth 
trying.
If it does work then you obviously have a new difficulty incorporating that 
into existing
tables where there may be who knows what other lookups you don't want to 
close.

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