Output no matter what's happening

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at spamcop.net
Wed Jul 30 06:57:28 PDT 2014


On 7/30/2014 12:17 AM, Mike Fedkiw wrote:
> I have a website that uses a file that I export from filepro to update
> the on hand every hour so my customers know what I have in stock. When
> doing the output on the invy file within filepro I'm changing nothing,
> just generating a file which is then automatically uploaded to the site
> which then updated the on hand whenever it receives the file. My concern
> is running into snags if someone happens to be adding items to the invy
> file or updating a record at the same time the timer says to generate the
> file for the website. Since I'm not changing anything on the output,
> shouldn't there be a way to run it whether there's records being added or
> updated anyway?

Since you aren't changing anything in any file, consider adding the "-ro" 
(read-only) flag, along with "-u", for dreport.

-- 
Kenneth Brody


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