OpenEuphoria

Re: [OT] files/dir on windoze

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Jul 08, 2004
• 583 views

Kat wrote:

> On 8 Jul 2004, at 4:58, irv mullins wrote:
>
>> posted by: irv mullins <irvm at ellijay.com>
>>
>> Juergen Luethje wrote:
>>
>>> Oops, I almost forgot about LFN. New program (as previously, using the
>>> exw.exe 2.4 interpreter BTW):
>>
>>> Anything worked fine, up to file #08191 (inclusive). Then Euphoria said:
>>> "Can't create error message file: ex.err"
>>>
>>> Now it's your turn. 
>>
>> Pass. Now it's Rob's turn :)
>>
>> Oh, you might try redirecting the ex.err to another directory and
>> see if Eu could write it there.
>
> Too bad that doesn't fix the original problem: the program could not create a
> file for the programmer, which caused Eu to fault and try to write it's own
> ex.err, which wasn't going to happen either. Windos Eu returns only a -1 to
> let the programmer know there is an error, but not what the error is,, unless
> RobC can extract the extended error msgs to give us.

Yes, another test showed, that the 'ex.err' file says:
"bad file number (-1)".

Perhaps someone wants to write a test program, that uses Windows API
functions for writing the files. There is an API function called
'GetLastError' or so, that might return a meaningful value.

Regards,
   Juergen