Bug in *report with -fp

[John Esak]

As I said in The FP Room... just reiterating here for anyone who sees your
comment. This is not a bug, this is the known and expected behavior since
day 1 of filePro... Even Profile 16. The manuals all showed that if you do
something like:

   dreport filename -f formatname -y no-name -a -u

You could expect to have NO automatic table, becuase there is no processing
table called "no-name". You would arrange things this way... It was to allow
non-programmers a method of understanding how to make things work if they
didn't know that using "" would accomplish the same thing:

  dreport filename -f formatname -y "" -u -a

So, no bug, just the way filePro has always worked in most of its flags
simpley carried through to the -fp flag. I don't think changing it now after
27 years, and just changing it for -fp would make sense.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Fairlight
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 8:17 PM
> To: fpsupport at fptech.net
> Cc: filePro Mailing List
> Subject: Bug in *report with -fp
>
>
> There's a bug in dreport and rreport as late as 5.0.14R4 (Linux in this
> case).
>
> If you specify "-fp tablename" on the command line, and the table does not
> exist, it does not complain in any way, shape, or form.  It acts as if it
> just did a sane job of running.
>
> Further compounding the confusion was an attempt to use -db with dreport
> and finding nothing wrong, yet having "nothing happen"...mostly because
> there was no processing to debug--which it doesn't warn you about.
>
> Not sure if this has been fixed in 5.6 or not, but anyone using 5.0.14 or
> earlier should beware.
>
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