Filesize() Function

[William J. McEachran]

msgbox ERRNAME( abs(aa) )
will tell you the OS error on a negative number
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Bill McEachran
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On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 10:19, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> Friends and filePro Experts,
>
> Does anyone have an idea what it means when I do the following commands?
>
> aa(8,.0)=Open([Name of file])
>
> ab(8,.0)=filesize(aa)   'should report the filesize of the opened file
> and does most of the time.
>
> But sometimes I get the value "-4" instead of a positive number of some
> kind.
>
> I expect it might be an error of some kind and if a -4 is possible, can
> I expect other negative numbers?
>
> I would appreciate any insight on this.  I am kind of assuming the file
> was not created or something bad like that happened.
>
> Nancy Palmquist
>
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