Re: Odd Error Message

2019-06-28 Thread Man-wai Chang
Disk I/O errors should always be logged, including secret folders. If you were not allowed to log that error, better leave the company before the errors hurt your reputation and career. Find a regular job that's normal. :) On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:57 AM Tracy Pearson wrote: > > Once had a networ

Re: Odd Error Message

2019-06-28 Thread Man-wai Chang
I would always exercise caution in all file i/o codes and walk that distance!! I would argue with my boss about that extra distance. Anyway, the problem might bite you again, or someone in place of you. Good luck then! :) On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 4:38 AM Fletcher Johnson wrote: > > We did have a

RE: Odd Error Message

2019-06-27 Thread Tracy Pearson
s... Tracy -Original Message- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Fletcher Johnson Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 4:37 PM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: RE: Odd Error Message We did have a test to see if the temp folder existed. If it didn't we tried t

RE: Odd Error Message

2019-06-27 Thread Fletcher Johnson
m/athletes/fletcherjohnson 408-946-0960 - work 408-781-2345 - cell -Original Message- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-boun...@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Man-wai Chang Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 4:23 AM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: Odd Error Message You better double-check the err

Re: Odd Error Message

2019-06-27 Thread Man-wai Chang
You better double-check the error handler! It should not have ignored the write error to that TEMP folder. To verify whether a folder was writable, you could test write then delete a file in that folder and look for errors. You might need to temporarily use ON ERROR to trap file write errors befor

RE: Odd Error Message

2019-06-26 Thread Fletcher Johnson
com] On Behalf Of Tracy Pearson Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 6:30 AM To: profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: Odd Error Message Hello Gene, That just raises more questions about what COM object is being used to create the XLS file. Is it shipping with the latest Windows 10 computer? Is it built in to the

RE: Odd Error Message

2019-06-25 Thread Gene Wirchenko
At 06:30 2019-06-25, "Tracy Pearson" wrote: Hello Gene, That just raises more questions about what COM object is being used to create the XLS file. Is it shipping with the latest Windows 10 computer? Is it built in to the VFP runtimes? Is this functionality suddenly going to stop working one da

RE: Odd Error Message

2019-06-25 Thread Tracy Pearson
m] On Behalf Of Ted Roche Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2019 10:34 AM To: profoxt...@leafe.com Subject: Re: Odd Error Message What Alan said. When TYPE XL5 was introduced, it was added because Excel 5 changed the output file format to some COM-based structured storage, iirc. So, VFP is calling some Windo

Re: Odd Error Message

2019-06-25 Thread Ted Roche
What Alan said. When TYPE XL5 was introduced, it was added because Excel 5 changed the output file format to some COM-based structured storage, iirc. So, VFP is calling some Windows OS-based API calls to create the storage, as it should, and that API gracefully fails ("0x80030003") when you are try

Re: Odd Error Message

2019-06-25 Thread Alan Bourke
I would imagine the functionality is baked into the VFP runtimes, I've never had an issue with it failing on any version of Windows, even without Excel installed. -- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm ___ Post Messages to: ProFox@leaf

RE: Odd Error Message

2019-06-25 Thread Tracy Pearson
Hello Gene, That just raises more questions about what COM object is being used to create the XLS file. Is it shipping with the latest Windows 10 computer? Is it built in to the VFP runtimes? Is this functionality suddenly going to stop working one day after the DLL is identified and removed by s