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Francis Mariani
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I got this error and spent three hours trying to figure out what was wrong. The program worked just fine when run from Dev Studio, but failed in RC.

I finally figured out that the last character in fex file was a binary 00. How it got there is a mystery, but I suspect that it was put there by the Dev Studio text editor. I normally edit files with my favourite external text editor, but I think I made a change using the internal text editor, which introduced this character.

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Francis


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Can you dup this using the car file?




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Any FOC errors in the source code when you run the report from Dev Studio? I have seen warnings cause RC to not run a report.


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Francis Mariani
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No FOC errors at all, the Excel report gets created. The RC log does not provide a normal FOC error number, just "Task error: UNRECOGNIZED COMMAND".


Francis


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Francis Mariani
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Dev Studio 8.0.08 - when opening a fex in an external text editor, a 00 hex character is added to the end of the file. If you save the file, the hex character is saved along with file. This causes Report Caster to fail. This occurs with fexes located on the reporting server or in the repository. I've tested with EditPlus, UltraEdit and Notepad.



Francis


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Laura1
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I am having the same issue. How did you get rid of the 00? I am currently working on webFocus 8009


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Francis Mariani
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My case is still open - there is no way to get rid of the 00. My work around is to make sure the last line of the fex is 
-*
(with no new-line). When the 00 gets appended it will be on a comment line and will be ignored by Report Caster.


Francis


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Laura1
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That doesn't seem to make a difference for me.


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I found my issue. It was a ';' on a line by itself. When running in dev studio it ignored the error and continue to complete the report, but went run in RC it completed running the report but just would not distribute it. This then placed the error at the end of the report, making it look it that was where the issue was when it actually happened at the beginning.


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Francis Mariani
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I have a habit of putting -RUN statements after every TABLE or DEFINE END statement. I put a -RUN after FILEDEF and JOIN statements. If there is an error, the error will be displayed at the -RUN statement, not at the end.


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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Francis Mariani
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This is to inform you that a Dev Studio 8.0.08 Hot Fix is available (DS-90_DS8008HF.zip) which solves the "00 hex byte at end of file" bug. Hallelujah.


Francis


Give me code, or give me retirement. In FOCUS since 1991

Production: WF 7.7.05M, Dev Studio, BID, MRE, WebSphere, DB2 / Test: WF 8.1.05M, App Studio, BI Portal, Report Caster, jQuery, HighCharts, Apache Tomcat, MS SQL Server
 
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