Export Command

[Kenneth Brody]

On 10/4/2011 11:17 AM, Rodgers Hemer wrote:
> fp5.6.10D4/CentOS5.3
>
> Perhaps someone can explain the odd behavior I have recently noticed in
> use of the "export" command.  Despite the definitions and instructions
> in the help file and the filePro manual,  I cannot use the command in
> the prescribed manner.

Can you give a specific example that "doesn't work"?

> While using "export word" I am not able to provide an alternative suffix
> such as ".xls" or ".doc",

Can you give a specific example you have tried, along with the filename that 
ends up being created?

> and it insists that the "fpmerge" directory be used to receive the output.

You can give a full path to the filename, and it will go to that directory 
instead.  It only goes to the fpmerge directory if you don't specify any path.

> If I try any other combination, a filePro error appears when checking the
> syntax.

Please give some specific examples, along with the actual error message you 
get for each.

> The syntax checker seems to require that only the output file name be
> given, with no quotation marks.  If quotation marks are used for the file
> name, the file is created with the quotation marks as a part of the name
> with all of the obvious problems that entails when trying to use or modify
> the file.

If you specify that the filename should include quotes, then filePro will 
include quotes in the filename.

[...]

This works just fine for me:

     export word foo=/tmp/export.csv

-- 
Kenneth Brody