Scott,
In Windows 2000 Pro, I can stop it but I have to stop RBase to do it. I
thought that there was a way to break out of it through some magic key
combination that I was not aware of. For instance, in RBedit you can always
hit the Escape key and bingo you are out. But if you :RUN A_prog.rmd and it
attacks a 90K Record File and you see something wrong in the display (OUTPUT
FILE WITH DISPLAY) there is no way to break out.
Maybe I did not explain myself properly. Very likely.
Phil
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Subject: Killing a routine
Phil,
Here is one way to kill a routine while it is running:
In your command file, look for the existance of a file
and if it's there, kill the routine.
SET VAR x INT = NULL
--Some sort of looping routine goes here
SET VAR x = (CHKFILE('C:\Stop.TXT')) --Returns 1 if found, 0 if not
IF x = 1 THEN
RETURN --or break out of the loop or whatever...
ENDIF
If you want to kill the routine, just type the following at
the DOS prompt:
C:\> DIR > Stop.TXT
This will put a file out there called Stop.TXT
and your program will pick up on it and
exit. There is a better way to do this and
I'll see if I can find it. But for now this is the
best I can come up with.
Scott
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"Phil Nolette (NCS Group, Inc.)" wrote:
> This must be my night for questions. By the way, the previous information
> on the SLOC worked great.
> Just an irritant question => I am running windows 2000 pro and when I run
my
> command files (rmd) and I see something going by on the screen that I want
> to fix, I can not break out of it. I have tried setting the ESCAPE = ON
and
> it does not work. Here's what it says on the RBase Syntax HTML: "SET
ESCAPE
> allows you to use [Ctrl]+[Break] to escape or abort command file
processing
> or database file access" . Something is wrong because I hit the CTRL
BREAK
> and also the FN BREAK and the only way to get out is using the
CTRL-ALT-DEL
> and killing the process and RBase. Certainly there must be a better way.
>
> Phil
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