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Richard Russell
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Re: Works in LB, not in LBB
« Reply #5 on: Jan 29th, 2015, 5:58pm » |
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on Jan 27th, 2015, 01:57am, Alincon wrote:| In this program LBB does not print the employee information line. (namLine$), but in LB those lines print. |
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OK, with the help of the OP I have tracked down the incompatibility. It arises because LBB assumes that the first parameter of the FILES statement will be a full path name, i.e. a string starting with the drive letter; for example:
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However in his code the OP is passing the first parameter of FILES without the drive letter, for example:
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This is causing LBB to misbehave.
The LB docs simply refer to the first parameter as pathSpec$; all of the examples include a drive letter but it isn't stated whether one should always be supplied.
I ought probably to modify LBB to be more compatible with LB in this respect, but in the meantime the problem is easily fixed in the OP's code by replacing:
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Code: files "c:";foldName$, info2$(
This will not affect compatibility with LB 4.04.
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Re: Works in LB, not in LBB
« Reply #6 on: Jan 30th, 2015, 1:07pm » |
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on Jan 29th, 2015, 5:58pm, Richard Russell wrote:| I ought probably to modify LBB to be more compatible with LB |
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I've updated LBB to v2.86; it is no longer necessary for the first parameter of FILES to include the drive letter. The OP's program now runs without modification.
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Alincon
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Re: Works in LB, not in LBB
« Reply #7 on: Jan 31st, 2015, 8:36pm » |
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Good detective work. I never would have suspected that the drive letter was missing. I just took what FILES gave me.
Anyway, I expect that this fix should also explain why the second program I mentioned above does not work.
But where do I download 2.86?
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Re: Works in LB, not in LBB
« Reply #8 on: Jan 31st, 2015, 10:01pm » |
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on Jan 31st, 2015, 8:36pm, Alincon wrote:| But where do I download 2.86? |
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The usual place, i.e. at the LBB website. I've simply updated it 'in situ', which means anybody downloading LBB now will automatically pick up the latest version.
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Alincon
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It's baaaak
« Reply #9 on: Mar 5th, 2015, 02:22am » |
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The files command still omits the drive letter in v3.0; my program does not work unless I add it.
Code: fileName$ = "c:" + info$(index,0) + "\"+ areaTbl$(index)+".dat"
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