Exec and directory

[Sharky]

This is very strange and I can't see what I'm doing wrong.

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cd "<...>\PhD version files"
<various minor routines>
exec ".\create all appex v5.prg"


When I run it, I get an error saying that the program 'create all appex v5.prg' isn't found on disk in a totally different place!

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<...>DOCUMENTS\EVIEWS ADDINS\CREATE ALL APPEX V5.PRG not found on disk in "EXEC ".\CREATE ALL APPEX V5.PRG"" on line 35.

I reset with cd directly and try running that line but each time it thinks I'm trying to call a program from an 'eviews addins' folder for some reason.

The status line has the correct Path.

I'm running Eviews 12 University Edition

[EViews Gareth]

https://eviews.com/download/whitepapers/ExecInclude.pdf

[Sharky]

https://eviews.com/download/whitepapers/ExecInclude.pdf

Thanks Gareth. Any idea why it's calling from addins even though I'm using

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.\

?

[EViews Gareth]

Is the program you are running from saved to disk?

[Sharky]

Is the program you are running from saved to disk?

Yes, saved to and running from C drive.

[EViews Gareth]

Is your copy of EViews up to date?

[Sharky]

Is your copy of EViews up to date?

I downloaded Eviews 12 University edition about a month ago - is that up to date?

[EViews Gareth]

Should be.

Seems strange.

Can you do the following:

• Create a brand new program.
• Enter a single line:
  

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  exec ".\foo.prg"
• Save as "c:\temp\test.prg" (make sure you have a folder called test)
• Run

It should error saying "c:\temp\foo.prg not found"

[Sharky]

Should be.

Seems strange.

Can you do the following:

• Create a brand new program.
• Enter a single line:
  

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  exec ".\foo.prg"
• Save as "c:\temp\test.prg" (make sure you have a folder called test)
• Run

It should error saying "c:\temp\foo.prg not found"

Not sure what you mean by 'a folder called test' but I saved in both the location specified and a subfolder called 'test'. In both cases I got the error:

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C:\TEMP\TEST\FOO.PRG not found on disk in "EXEC ".\FOO.PRG"" on line 1.

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C:\TEMP\FOO.PRG not found on disk in "EXEC ".\FOO.PRG"" on line 1.

[EViews Gareth]

ok, so that appears to be working correctly. Something specific about your program is causing the weird behaviour.

(and I mean to say a folder called "temp". My bad)

[Sharky]

OK I've replaced with include and for some reason it works. Very strange.