>Same Unique File Names
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>In a freak hapenning FPD25b under Win2K on PIII 500 returned the following (excerpts from the error log):
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>Z25SPCKG (hid) C "_72601579" SQLCUSTCOM
>Z25MCHNL (hid) C "_72601579" SQLCUSTCOM
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>Any solutions that this does not happen again?
From the manual: "SYS(3) may return a non-unique name when issued successionally on a fast computer. Use SUBSTR(SYS(2015), 3, 10) to create unique, legal eight character file name."
If it isn't filenames you need, forget about the substr().
HTH, Hilmar.
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