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

[Jeff Harrison]

--- John Esak <john at valar.com> wrote:

[snip]
> 
> As for the why shouldn't filePro do the closing
> automatically, on this we
> disagree. FilePro shouldn't do much of anything it
> isn't specifically told
> to do. Just a working paradigm. I'd always rather
> have control of things
> like this, and putting CLOSE's where I want them is
> just like putting
> WRITE's where I want them. I know there is no
> relationship at all, and this
> may be a bad analogy, but I wanted to say something
> and couldn't think of
> anything better. :-)
> 
> John
> 
> 

Well, at the time I mentioned this originally I
couldn't think of a reason why anyone would *NOT* want
these files closed.  Upon further thought, however, I
guess that it is possible for a person to re-lookup
the original file, and perhaps they would not want the
extra overhead of closing and opening this file.

Given that it is a rare situation where this feature
will casue a problem, I'm willing to let this dog lie.
 I will say, though that I don't believe people should
use this technique of re-using the same aliases on
different files unless they understand what will
happen.

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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