[SOLVED] EXPORT ASCII won't - after action report

[Jay Ashworth]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>

> My initial inclination was to exclaim, "You bastard!"
> 
> Then I thought about working on the system in question, and I have now
> modified it to, "You poor bastard!"
> 
> :)
> 
> (Does it have 'truss', so you could pull strace-style debugging?
>  That'd be my next step.)

Happily, I didn't (have to) go down that rabbit hole (and "no, of course
it doesn't; it's SCO".)

Ken's "add a show statement" tip was enough to make clear to me that it
*wasn't running any of the code at all*, and that led me to "what's it
running it *with*?".

And it was then that I noticed "Define Runtime Processing" at the bottom
of the left copy of the main menu.  Since this was a Menu Maestro install,
it hadn't occurred to me at all that there might *be* tok tables... and 
then came the best part of all:

Someone had copied rreport *over* dreport -- both had the same size and
mod date.  So even my manual runs of dreport weren't going to find
the prc tables.  I compiled it, and voila! (yes, that's how you spell
that*) it worked perfectly.

At that point I could start actually working on the, y'know, *work*, which
(as expected) only took me half an hour.

I will be generous (since this was a referral from the list) and assume
that whomever decided that was a good thing to do had a good reason for
doing it.  :-)

My thanks to the various people who popped up with ideas both on- and
off-list.

Add this to your WTF? checklist.

Cheers,
-- jra
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