Re: [append] vs. [appendfile] delta + question?

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11364
interpreted = N
texte = In fact, all of the URL-style specifications you made should work just fine. This is true for all the contexts that require a path specification. What version are you using? What platform?John.>In the latest webcat version: > >I got the [appendfile] construct to work fine from the tmpl(s) and it >apparently uses : as the delimiter between folder references for the >file path, e.g. somefolder:myfile if I wish to reference a file, myfile, >in a subfolder called somefolder. > >I can't seem to get [append] construct to work from the tmpl(s). I have >two databases with a header line containing the tab delimited field names >and I haven't been able to add records at all to either database. I >notice in the online docs, that the [append] construct docs state that >the / is the folder delimiter. Is this true and is this inconsistent to >appendfile? I have tried the following forms to get to my databases in a >subfolder to the store folder: > > somefolder:invoice.db > > somefolder/invoice.db > > ./somefolder/invoice.db > > >None of the above works! What did I miss? > >Curt > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >| William Curt Eggemeyer Curt@mail.bzzzzzz.com | >| BeeHive Technologies, Inc. | >| http://www.bzzzzzz.com with a WebCam in Pasadena, California | >---------------------------------------------------------------------- John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing ********************************* Pacific Coast Software * Home of the Web's best 11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #462 * Catalog and Merchant software San Diego, CA 92128 * http://www.smithmicro.com Phone: 619-675-1106 Fax: 675-0372 ********************************* Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
In fact, all of the URL-style specifications you made should work just fine. This is true for all the contexts that require a path specification. What version are you using? What platform?John.>In the latest webcat version: > >I got the [appendfile] construct to work fine from the tmpl(s) and it >apparently uses : as the delimiter between folder references for the >file path, e.g. somefolder:myfile if I wish to reference a file, myfile, >in a subfolder called somefolder. > >I can't seem to get [append] construct to work from the tmpl(s). I have >two databases with a header line containing the tab delimited field names >and I haven't been able to add records at all to either database. I >notice in the online docs, that the [append] construct docs state that >the / is the folder delimiter. Is this true and is this inconsistent to >appendfile? I have tried the following forms to get to my databases in a >subfolder to the store folder: > > somefolder:invoice.db > > somefolder/invoice.db > > ./somefolder/invoice.db > > >None of the above works! What did I miss? > >Curt > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >| William Curt Eggemeyer Curt@mail.bzzzzzz.com | >| BeeHive Technologies, Inc. | >| http://www.bzzzzzz.com with a WebCam in Pasadena, California | >---------------------------------------------------------------------- John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing ********************************* Pacific Coast Software * Home of the Web's best 11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #462 * Catalog and Merchant software San Diego, CA 92128 * http://www.smithmicro.com Phone: 619-675-1106 Fax: 675-0372 ********************************* John Hill

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