Error when deleting the last record out of a file

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Mike Schwartz (Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:13:16 -0600):

>      One of my customers (filePro 5.0.5K2R4, SCO Unix 5.0.6) has a general
[...]
>     The system works fine, except when finish my processing, I need to
> delete out all the records I have put there, and when I am deleting the very
> last record out of the file, I get the error:
>
> /u/filepro/storesort/indexabc.A: invalid argument
>
> Dummy field tt contains the users tty#.
>
> ClrSrt   If: 'Clear out the storesort file after we're done...
>        Then: '(Also:  Clear HD32's before we start...)
> 220  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
>          If:
>        Then: lookup stx = storesort  K=("TTY")  i=A -bpG
> 221  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -   -
> NXTstx   If: not stx                'No more recs to delete for HD32
>        Then: sleep "1000";  return
[... conditional "delete" ...]
> 224  -------   -   -   -   -   -   -
>          If:
>        Then: getnext stx; goto NXTstx
[...]

Note your use of "-b" rather than "-n".  I'd start by looking at that.
(Also, which line gives you the error?)

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