OpenEuphoria

Re: Can't create error message file: ex.err

• Posted by Juergen Luethje <j.lue at gmx.de> Sep 07, 2006
• 598 views

Greg Haberek wrote:

>> I have no information about it, since there is no "ex.err" file, and
>> Euphoria also doesn't tell me something about it in the console window.
> 
> You could always direct your ex.err files to a common location.
> 
> }}}
<eucode>
> constant APPDATA = getenv( "APPDATA" )
> 
> if sequence( APPDATA ) then
>     crash_file( APPDATA & "\\ex.err" )
>     crash_message( "Please see \"" & APPDATA & "\\ex.err\" for more
> information." )
> end if
> </eucode>
{{{


I can't remember that I ever encountered an envirinment variable APPDATA
(see also Pete's related post). The envirinment variable TEMP or TMP might
be used instead, though. ( TEMP or TMP pointing to a read-only drive
wouldn't make much sense, would it?  )

However, as I wrote there are other situations where this problem occurs.
I first encountered this problem, when I forgot to close files in a loop.
Try this:

integer fn
for i = 1 to 30 do
   fn = open("c:\\autoexec.bat", "r")
end for
? 1/0

And, as I wrote, there actually is not reason why Euphoria should display
the message
     "Can't create error message file: ex.err"
_instead of_ of the original error message. I can't believe that Rob
intentionally made Euphoria work this way.

Regards,
   Juergen

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