>>>>>>Thanks Tore and Ooops!
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>>>>>>There are 3 slightly different versions to this prog that I had to amend. 2 of them go on to do some extra printing/fputting after the initial code shown below. It just so happens that I forgot to put in the FCLOSE() for this particular case (which I've now fixed, of course)
>>>>>>Do you think that would have had some bearing on the problem {sheepish grin}?
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>>>>>Well, reminds me of some old "you didn't say 'Please!'" jokes.
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>>>>I don't think I know of any so that allusion totally escapes me ????
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>>>A man carries a heavy load, and can not see where he is going. So he asks a boy to open the door for him. The boy does not open the door, so the man crashes into it and loses all his stuff. When he asks the boy why he did not open the door, the boy answers "you didn't say please".
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>>And they say that Norwegians have no sense of humour. Well haing read the funniest joke I've heard all year I still don't see the relevance to my plight.
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>When you wrote "Do you think that would have had some bearing on the problem {sheepish grin}?", I got the impression that you understood that you had done a silly mistake.

Yes I was aware, esp. as, after the prog had run, I tried to open the txt file with Notepad, to check the text was in it, and was told that another process had it open :-)

So, yes, it's naughty not closing the file but I didn't think necessarily that this would prevent the text being written to it, esp. as, like I said, I've seen it work under 3 different methods.

But still don't see how that's germane to the joke. But I can be obtuse at times.

UPDATE:

The same system was installed on two further machines (older than the one with the problem) and the text file was created and populated OK. I'm pleased to say this as in talking to the client it makes the problem out to be (in their eyes) not one of my incompetence but one of the old software vs new hardware. :-)

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>>>>And my question was serious - do you think that may be (one of) the reason(s) for the failure to write the details to the file - in the exe version at the client's (as I said, it worked OK in VFP, debug and the EXE here)?
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>>>Yes, I think the fclose() is important. Maybe even more important in FPD than in VFP, since VFP has added more intelligence.
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>>Cheers