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echo: foxpro
to: DAVID POWELL
from: KA`RLIS GOBLEJA
date: 1997-02-24 21:14:00
subject: Fox Puzzler

Hello David!
Saturday February 22 1997, David Powell writes to All:
 DP> You have an application which stores data in various subdirectories 
nder
 DP> it.
Yes.
 DP> You use SET DEFAULT TO to enter each subdirectory for its local
 DP> processing.
No. I issue SET PATH TO ..
 DP> Alas!  Although this nearly always works, sometimes you get a File is
 DP> Open error.  So you insert a CLOSE DATA statement prior to the loop.
 DP> No good.  The file in question is a .TMP file that Fox is using.
SORTWORK, EDITWORK, PROGWORK, TMPFILES in config.fp and some programming 
discipline.
Of course, if you write FOXPRO program which purpose is remove directories, 
then you should have some problems.
Charles
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