opening files without extension

From: [at]} <Violeta>
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 12:23:08 +0200

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Dear list members,

I would like to ask you if any of you has already tried to work with files
having no extension. I am trying to open such a file and it seems that
BlackBox is unable to return a view for that file.
I have added some details of the problem below.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Thank you,
Violeta Seretan - Univ. of Geneva


The following procedure opens a file interactively via a file dialog:

        PROCEDURE OpenFileNoExtension*;
                VAR loc: Files.Locator;
                                conv: Converters.Converter;
                                name : Files.Name;
                                view: Views.View;
        BEGIN
                view := Views.Old(Views.ask, loc, name, conv);
                Log.Ln; Log.String("view is NIL: "); Log.Bool(view = NIL);
                Log.Ln;Log.String("conv is NIL: "); Log.Bool(conv = NIL);
                IF conv # NIL THEN Log.Ln; Log.String("file type: " + conv.fileType$);
END;
                Log.Ln;Log.String("loc.res (0 if ok): "); Log.Int(loc.res);
                Log.Ln; Log.String("name: " + name$);
        END OpenFileNoExtension;

The procedure outputs the text below if the file I am opening has no
extension ("Fixing the finances").

view is NIL: $TRUE
conv is NIL: $FALSE
file type: odc
loc.res (0 if ok): 2
name: Fixing the finances

Everything goes fine if the same file has an extension ("Fixing the
finances.odc").

view is NIL: $FALSE
conv is NIL: $FALSE
file type: odc
loc.res (0 if ok): 0
name: Fixing the finances.odc

It seems that the problem concerns the file location & name (loc.res is 2,
"location or file not found").
Which is unintuitive as it is the user that specified an _existing_ location
and file.

res: INTEGER
Directory operations return their results in the locator's res field.
The following result codes are predefined:
res = 0 no error
res = 1 invalid parameter (name or locator)
res = 2 location or file not found
res = 3 file already exists
res = 4 write-protection
res = 5 io error
res = 6 access denied
res = 7 illegal file type
res = 8 cancelled

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