Using WRITE() on 5.0 - running on Linux

[Kenneth Brody]

Nancy Palmquist wrote:
> I am pleased to announce that the sleep command added right after the 
> write file in the EXPORT version seemed to solve the problem.

I'm sure you already know this, but I'll point it out anyway.  Adding a 
sleep will in no way affect what filePro writes.  (It might affect "when", 
but not "what" or "how".)

> I have no clue why I got 4 items when I used WRITE() in the subtotals, I 
> gave up on that version ever working since it broke every file it wrote.

If you still have a version that fails, contact fpsupport so they can look 
into it.

> The EXPORT version, was only breaking less than 1% and adding the SLEEP 
> "20" after I wrote the data seemed to clean that up also.
> 
> I am just glad I finally got this process running.  I have messed with 
> it, on and off, for a year or so.  Never with enough time to get to the 
> bottom of the issue.  I think it will work reliably now and I can go on 
> to other issues.
> 
> You guys are great.  Just writing an email to the list makes me double 
> check everything so I don;t get any embarrassing solutions I should have 
> thought of myself.

-- 
Kenneth Brody