Re: directories

[Don Mellen <donm@ONTKO.COM>]

On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Randle Boyd wrote:

> Hello,
>
> We have SQR (and Maximo) and our SQRs and SQTs on a server that we'll
> call server 1.  We would like to use a flat file that is on another
> server, that we'll call server 2.  We would like to use the flat file
> from server 2 as input for an SQT on server 1, then have the resulting
> .LIS and .SPF files created on server 2.  By the way, we're using WIN
> NT, and SQR v3.0, and all the servers are mapped as local drives.

<snip>
> browse and get the 8.3 file names.  So, I tried this:
> open 'r:\power~1\prod\maint\pilotwo~1\data\wrkorder.txt' as 10
> for-reading record=6
>
> This time I got an error - SQR 3501 'Didn't find end of literal'.  I
> suppose that SQR does not like the '~' character?

SQR loves the '~' character. I've used it several ties with no problem.
One thing about your example, "pilotwo~1" is 9 characters long, not 8.
This, however, should not cause a 3501 error.

The most common cases of 3501 errors that I've had come from forgetting to
double my exclamation marks.  for example:
   let $warn = 'Warning! An error occured.'
treats everything after the '!' as a comment.

> I am having similar problems with the exists() function, and when
> attempting to place the .LIS and .SPF files into a different directory
> using the -F flag on the command line.

You mean a 3501 error?  If not, what error(s) are you getting?

> Can anyone tell me what I may be doing wrong?
>
> TIA,
> Randle
> Ruan Transportation
> (515)245-2493


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