Extended Error 183

[Mel Smith]

Dear Friends,

Enviro: Win XP Home & Win XP Professional, a DOS application running in a CMD
full-screen window.

At times I get the above error which 'kicks' the screen up a line but allows
the app to carry on without failure (my users alerted me to this yesterday and
said it had been happening for a couple of years but didn't tell me about it !)


Any ideas where this could be coming from or how I can track it down ???

TIA,

-Mel Smith

[John Seberg]

Post by Mel Smith
Dear Friends,
Enviro: Win XP Home & Win XP Professional, a DOS application running in a CMD
full-screen window.
At times I get the above error which 'kicks' the screen up a line but allows
the app to carry on without failure (my users alerted me to this yesterday and
said it had been happening for a couple of years but didn't tell me about it !)
Any ideas where this could be coming from or how I can track it down ???

Well, it *reminds* me of a message I get running rmake when the script
tries to make a directory that already exists...

I'm not in a position to reproduce that error, at the moment, but, I'm
sure it is quite similar to what you're getting.

[Mel Smith]

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[Mel Smith]

Post by John Seberg
Well, it *reminds* me of a message I get running rmake when the script
tries to make a directory that already exists...

J

[Mel Smith]

Post by John Seberg
Well, it *reminds* me of a message I get running rmake when the script
tries to make a directory that already exists...

John,

Your absolutely right !

I *usually* do the following if I have to ensure a directory exists:

swpruncmd("MD &cMyDir",0,"",0)

using Blinker's swap function to create the directory -- whether the
directory exists or not. This is careless and lazy of me, but it always worked
with no problem *until* Win XP came along. Then the error occurred and 'kicked
up' my user's screen.

So, I fished around in my utilies until I came across the function
FT_MkDir(cMyDir) and another utility called isdir(cMyDir). A combination of
these along with my own MD(cMyDir) gives me what I want.

Thanks for the help !

-Mel Smith