export write delays

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Doug Luurs (Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:54:31 -0400):

> Filepro 5.6.06R4 running on SCO Openserver 6.0
>
> I am using a "EXPORT ASCII" command for a tab delimited file to write
> some data, and it works fine as long as I where to wait until the
> program is completely done Running.
>
> However .. If I try to do something with the file with a "@DONE"
> command within the processing, it is like the last 2-2.5k of the file
> is Never wrote yet.   I have tried to SYNC and close the file, and the
> the last 2-2.5k of data never appears until after the program is done
> running.
[...]

If you want to finish the export and run a SYSTEM command on that
file, you will need to "CLOSE exportname" prior to the SYSTEM.

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