On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, John Burtt wrote:
> I realize that I should try this in order to find the cause of the
> problem but I don't have a machine running NT of my own. I was
> demonstrating my program for a potential customer on their machine.
> It just doesn't seem right to tell them their machi
Title: Re: How to detect error in "Set Directory"
I'm using your work-around, but I'd sure like something better. That work-around has two major problems:
1) The error message I usually get is "Can't open directory." This is a legal directory name! I can catch some but not all errors this
Title: How to detect error in "Set Directory"
How do I detect an error in a "Set Directory" statement?
It appears that 'set the directory to "My Dir"; answer the result' will return an empty string on success, an error message on failure. This behavior makes sense.
But 'set the directory t
I'm having some trouble making my printouts look like my screens. I'm just
using "Print this card". It works well most of the time. But the text size
is slightly different on the printer and on the screen. Does anyone have
any hints on how to avoid this problem?
I've got a sample at http://ww
Title: Re: General MetaCard question
The referenced article makes some interesting observations about the library question. All of the script programmers used the hash tables built into the language. Java and C++ have similar functionality in their libraries, but none of the Java or C++ prog
