Export Command

[Stanley - stanlyn-com]

> 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.

What version of filePro for SCO did this first appear?

Stanley





-----Original Message-----
From: filepro-list-bounces+stanley=stanlyn.com at lists.celestial.com
[mailto:filepro-list-bounces+stanley=stanlyn.com at lists.celestial.com] On
Behalf Of Rodgers Hemer
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 10:54 PM
To: Kenneth Brody
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: Re: Export Command


On Oct 4, 2011, at 8:59 AM, Kenneth Brody wrote:

> 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
> 
Ken:

After further study, I found a path definition error that must have caused
the problem.  It is working fine now.  Thanks,

Rodgers Hemer


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