The culprit turns out to be ...fp/lib/makedir which appears to be corrupt. I replaced it with an older version and all is working fine.<div><br></div><div>I'll go through the downloaded tarball from fptech tomorrow and see if I can duplicate the issue. If so I'll report it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks to everyone for their help.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:13 PM, William J. McEachran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.mceachran@gmail.com">bill.mceachran@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Upgrading from SCO to Linux filepro 5.7.00D4 (reported by ddefine).<div><br></div><div>I'm unable to create new filepro files using ddefine. It's not creating the required directory.</div>
<div>If I manually create the required directory (sudo'ed to user 'filepro') then ddefine will create and edit the map.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The error message:</div><div>--</div><div><div>*** A System Error Has Occurred ***</div><div><br></div><div>Cannot open file.</div><div>/home/datafp/filepro/xxx/map: No such file or directory</div></div>
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<div>--</div><div>ddefine is </div><div>-rwsr-xr-x 1 filepro root 583184 May 31 2011 ddefine</div><div>lib/makedir</div><div>-rwsr-xr-x 1 root sys 37092 Oct 10 2001 makedir</div><div><br></div><div>What am I missing?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Calls and emails to fptech have brought no response.</div><div>Thanks.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div>Bill McEachran</div><div><a href="mailto:bill.mceachran@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.mceachran@gmail.com</a> <a href="http://www.wjmceachran.com" target="_blank">http://www.wjmceachran.com</a></div>
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