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External Subroutine question

Hello all,

I will explain what I want to do before asking the question / your help.

I have programs that need to call a subroutine that will have a rev number. Example "Sub_Rev_A.prg"

I have a text file that those programs read and extract the final letter of the name and assign it in a variable with the readline command. So if I have a second sub named "Sub_Rev_B.prg" and the txt file writes B, the B sub will be read instead.

Now the issue I am having is... Those programs will be read only in a read only folder. I noticed that when I start those programs, they search for the sub they had executed in the first run while NOT in read only mode and after that while executing they search for the real version to execute (and execute it correctly).

In the example I gave be4, Main Program is tested with REV A sub, saved and set to read only. It works with Rev A for some time perfectly. Later on, we revise the sub to rev B, change the Txt to B. The program starts, gives an error message that the sub A is not found (we remove the old revisions), procedes to execution, reads the txt, executes sub B. From that point if I reexecute the Main program without closing it runs without error. If I close and reopen it I am getting the same error for Rev A.

No impact on the result of the measurement but each time I am getting an annoying message that I would love to eliminate if possible. Please know that in reality I am talking about hundreds of programs and subs and it is not possible to remove readonly mode each time we revise a sub without performing validation documents etc,

any help is much appreciated! |

PC-Dmis 2017 R2
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  • One thing you could try is to assign that network path to a device letter and then use the device letter instead when calling the sub.

    It's not the best way but maybe worth a try.


    No matter what I do the program starts and searches for a sub before actually processing the code and finalizing the sub in the variable. This means that if I have a variable for the path/name of the sub, pcdmis will reach to that, after it has already searched the sub that was previously used with the last execution of the program. Everyone can give a try to that like this:

    C1 =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=NO,
    REV NUM?
    ASSIGN/V1="PATH\PROGRAMNAME_REV_" +C1.INPUT +".PRG"
    CS1 =CALLSUB/nameofsub,V1:,


    Run program giving Rev 1 as an answer. Change the name of the sub to Rev_B. Execute the program. Pcdmis will give an error message, proceeds to reading the V1 and running the SUB REV B. From that point on B will be impeded to its code and thus this will reoccure once per revision. Imagine now that the program is readonly and having this message at every program execution... :S
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  • One thing you could try is to assign that network path to a device letter and then use the device letter instead when calling the sub.

    It's not the best way but maybe worth a try.


    No matter what I do the program starts and searches for a sub before actually processing the code and finalizing the sub in the variable. This means that if I have a variable for the path/name of the sub, pcdmis will reach to that, after it has already searched the sub that was previously used with the last execution of the program. Everyone can give a try to that like this:

    C1 =COMMENT/INPUT,NO,FULL SCREEN=NO,
    REV NUM?
    ASSIGN/V1="PATH\PROGRAMNAME_REV_" +C1.INPUT +".PRG"
    CS1 =CALLSUB/nameofsub,V1:,


    Run program giving Rev 1 as an answer. Change the name of the sub to Rev_B. Execute the program. Pcdmis will give an error message, proceeds to reading the V1 and running the SUB REV B. From that point on B will be impeded to its code and thus this will reoccure once per revision. Imagine now that the program is readonly and having this message at every program execution... :S
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