1. ex.err not being created
- Posted by "gridsleep" <darkside at frontiernet.net> Dec 16, 2003
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C3C364.7B7A1490 charset="iso-8859-1" After trying to RUN a file from within MEditor and having an error detected, an alert pops up "unable to open file: <source-dir>\ex.err". A search of the drive indicates there is no ex.err file to be found, except for a couple of instances in the Demos directory. The program run correctly from a DOS prompt. Is this an MEditor problem or a Euphoria problem being fed through MEditor? Also, the mailing list search tool on the web site desperately needs Boolean capability. Searching for "unable to open file ex.err" brings up every entry with any one of the search words in it, which is nearly every entry in the database. This is not acceptible. There is no Boolean instruction to search for an exact phrase. Please, whoever wrote the search routine, consider adding a more advanced search strategy. Thanks. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C3C364.7B7A1490 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>After trying to RUN a file from within MEditor and having an error detected, an alert pops up "unable to open file: <source-dir>\ex.err". A search of the drive indicates there is no ex.err file to be found, except for a couple of instances in the Demos directory. The program run correctly from a DOS prompt. Is this an MEditor problem or a Euphoria problem being fed through MEditor?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Also, the mailing list search tool on the web site desperately needs Boolean capability. Searching for "unable to open file ex.err" brings up every entry with any one of the search words in it, which is nearly every entry in the database. This is not acceptible. There is no Boolean instruction to search for an exact phrase. Please, whoever wrote the search routine, consider adding a more advanced search strategy. Thanks.</FONT></DIV> ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C3C364.7B7A1490--
2. Re: ex.err not being created
- Posted by "Greg Haberek" <g.haberek at comcast.net> Dec 16, 2003
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> After trying to RUN a file from within MEditor and having an error detected, an alert pops up "unable to > open file: <source-dir>\ex.err". A search of the drive indicates there is no ex.err file to be found, except > for a couple of instances in the Demos directory. The program run correctly from a DOS prompt. Is > this an MEditor problem or a Euphoria problem being fed through MEditor? Sometimes a program will quit using abort(x). If x is anything other than 0, it is seen as an error. However, callling abort(x) will not generate an ex.err file. If this is a program you wrote, check this first. Try using an old Win32Lib trick by calling abort(1/0) causing a div. by zero and there by generating an ex.err file. > Also, the mailing list search tool on the web site desperately needs Boolean capability. Searching for > "unable to open file ex.err" brings up every entry with any one of the search words in it, which is nearly > every entry in the database. This is not acceptible. There is no Boolean instruction to search for an > exact phrase. Please, whoever wrote the search routine, consider adding a more advanced search strategy. I believe Robert Craig himself wrote the search engine. I believe someone on the list was working on a new version, but I haven't heard anything in a while, maybe that was for the Archive search.
3. Re: ex.err not being created
- Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Dec 16, 2003
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Kurt Faasse wrote: > After trying to RUN a file from within MEditor and having an error > detected, an alert pops up "unable to open file: <source-dir>\ex.err". > A search of the drive indicates there is no ex.err file to be found, > except for a couple of instances in the Demos directory. The program > run correctly from a DOS prompt. Is this an MEditor problem or a > Euphoria problem being fed through MEditor? What happens, when you run the same program directly from the windows explorer, without using MEditor? If you try that, I believe it will answer the question. > Also, the mailing list search tool on the web site desperately needs > Boolean capability. Searching for "unable to open file ex.err" brings > up every entry with any one of the search words in it, which is nearly > every entry in the database. This is not acceptible. There is no > Boolean instruction to search for an exact phrase. Please, whoever > wrote the search routine, consider adding a more advanced search > strategy. Thanks. I believe, you are talking about the search tool on the RDS website rather than that one on the Topica website, right? Currently, if you search for more than one word on the RDS website, AFAIK the search is performed by automatically applying a Boolean OR to all the words. Rob, I also think it would be very useful, if the user at least had the choice between applying OR or applying AND. This is my wish for Christmas.The more the mailing list database grows, the more this becomes important. Normally its not the problem to find just anything, but to look for a needle in a haystack. Regards, Juergen PS: Kurt, please don't send mails containing any HTML to this list, send plain text only. Thanks in advance! -- /"\ ASCII ribbon campain | |\ _,,,---,,_ \ / against HTML in | /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ X e-mail and news, | |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' / \ and unneeded MIME | '---''(_/--' `-'\_)
4. Re: ex.err not being created
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Dec 16, 2003
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Kurt Faasse wrote: > Also, the mailing list search tool on the web site desperately needs > Boolean capability. Searching for "unable to open file ex.err" brings > up every entry with any one of the search words in it, which is nearly > every entry in the database. This is not acceptible. There is no > Boolean instruction to search for an exact phrase. Please, whoever > wrote the search routine, consider adding a more advanced search > strategy. Thanks. It's true that the search matches any message that contains any of the words you are searching for, but the scoring system ensures that messages that match all of the words you are looking for will be displayed at the top, or very near the top of the list of results. This way you get the best of both worlds. If no message has all of your search words, you'll see a list of partial matches, which should be more useful to you than "No match found. Try again". Regards, Rob Craig Rapid Deployment Software http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
5. Re: ex.err not being created
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Dec 16, 2003
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Kurt Faasse wrote: > There is no > Boolean instruction to search for an exact phrase. Sorry, I didn't read your message carefully enough. As far as phrases are concerned, you don't need a boolean (like AND or OR), you just need a way of quoting the phrase. That sounds reasonable. I'll look into it. Thanks, Rob Craig Rapid Deployment Software http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
6. Re: ex.err not being created
- Posted by "gridsleep" <darkside at frontiernet.net> Dec 16, 2003
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Yes, quoting the search phrase would be good. I tried using double quotes but they were ignored. Thanks for considering my suggestion. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Craig" <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> To: <EUforum at topica.com> Subject: Re: ex.err not being created > > > Kurt Faasse wrote: > > There is no > > Boolean instruction to search for an exact phrase. > > Sorry, I didn't read your message carefully enough. > As far as phrases are concerned, you don't need > a boolean (like AND or OR), you just need a way > of quoting the phrase. That sounds reasonable. > I'll look into it. > > Thanks, > Rob Craig > Rapid Deployment Software > http://www.RapidEuphoria.com > > > > TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! > >
7. Re: ex.err not being created
- Posted by "gridsleep" <darkside at frontiernet.net> Dec 16, 2003
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Thanks Greg, Juergen and Robert for the advice. The program is a short one and is actually error free, so it runs from a DOS prompt properly. When I run it in MEditor some sort of error is generated but, as you say, no ex.err results, but MEditor looks for ex.err and reports that it can't be found. Probably MEditor isn't seeing the program close properly, or perhaps I'm not returning to system properly but not as an official error. Probably the latter. It was just a little test program so I'll work on something more substantial and see how that goes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> To: <EUforum at topica.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 1:01 AM Subject: Re: ex.err not being created > > > Kurt Faasse wrote: > > > After trying to RUN a file from within MEditor and having an error > > detected, an alert pops up "unable to open file: <source-dir>\ex.err". > > A search of the drive indicates there is no ex.err file to be found, > > except for a couple of instances in the Demos directory. The program > > run correctly from a DOS prompt. Is this an MEditor problem or a > > Euphoria problem being fed through MEditor? > > What happens, when you run the same program directly from the windows > explorer, without using MEditor? If you try that, I believe it will > answer the question. > > > Also, the mailing list search tool on the web site desperately needs > > Boolean capability. Searching for "unable to open file ex.err" brings > > up every entry with any one of the search words in it, which is nearly > > every entry in the database. This is not acceptible. There is no > > Boolean instruction to search for an exact phrase. Please, whoever > > wrote the search routine, consider adding a more advanced search > > strategy. Thanks. > > I believe, you are talking about the search tool on the RDS website > rather than that one on the Topica website, right? > Currently, if you search for more than one word on the RDS website, > AFAIK the search is performed by automatically applying a Boolean OR > to all the words. > > Rob, I also think it would be very useful, if the user at least had the > choice between applying OR or applying AND. This is my wish for > Christmas.> The more the mailing list database grows, the more this becomes > important. Normally its not the problem to find just anything, but to > look for a needle in a haystack. > > Regards, > Juergen > > PS: Kurt, please don't send mails containing any HTML to this list, send > plain text only. Thanks in advance! > > -- > /"\ ASCII ribbon campain | |\ _,,,---,,_ > \ / against HTML in | /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ > X e-mail and news, | |,4- ) )-,_..;\ ( `'-' > / \ and unneeded MIME | '---''(_/--' `-'\_) > > > > TOPICA - Start your own email discussion group. FREE! > >