user command
Jay R. Ashworth
jra at baylink.com
Tue Sep 19 11:38:34 PDT 2006
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:58:03PM -0500, Richard D. Williams wrote:
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 12:58:03 -0500
> From: "Richard D. Williams" <richard at appgrp.net>
> To: filePro Mailing List <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
> Subject: user command
>
>
> Linux, FP 5.14
> I am trying to get a unique number by executing this script called uniqueid:
> temp_file="/tmp/$$"
> echo $temp_file
> This is my result from the command line:
> # uniqueid
> /tmp/23124
> #
> My filepro user command syntax is:
> uniq = /usr/local/bin/uniqueid
> ha=uniq
> msgbox ha
> This is my result from filepro @key:
> ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃ
> ÃÃÿ
> ³
> ?[24;70H?[m?[m?[2J?[H?[m?[2J?[H?[1;1H?[m?[2J?[H?[1;1H
> ³
> ³
> ³
> ÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃÃ Press
> Enter Ã
> (the graphics did not cut and paste very well, but you get the idea.)
> Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?
<dryly>Nope. They sure didn't.
Cheers,
-- jra
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