What happened to my PRG???

[Dan Musicant]

I have a PRG I use daily that's over 3500 lines. Yesterday, it stopped
working. Today I see that the program had shrunk to under 2900 lines.
VFP 9 had recompiled the program and parts of it were not found, well, a
particular procedure within it. Fortunately I had it backed up and I
restored the program. I had not modified the program. What could have
caused this head scratcher?

Dan


Email: dmusicant at pacbell dot net

[Gene Wirchenko]

Post by Dan Musicant
I have a PRG I use daily that's over 3500 lines. Yesterday, it stopped
working. Today I see that the program had shrunk to under 2900 lines.
VFP 9 had recompiled the program and parts of it were not found, well, a
particular procedure within it. Fortunately I had it backed up and I
restored the program. I had not modified the program. What could have
caused this head scratcher?

The file was corrupted? It was misread and an EOF was seen
earlier in the program?

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

[Dan Musicant]

On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 13:08:10 -0700, Gene Wirchenko <***@telus.net>
wrote:

:On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 05:43:23 -0700, Dan Musicant <***@privacy.net>
:wrote:
:
:>I have a PRG I use daily that's over 3500 lines. Yesterday, it stopped
:>working. Today I see that the program had shrunk to under 2900 lines.
:>VFP 9 had recompiled the program and parts of it were not found, well, a
:>particular procedure within it. Fortunately I had it backed up and I
:>restored the program. I had not modified the program. What could have
:>caused this head scratcher?
:
: The file was corrupted? It was misread and an EOF was seen
:earlier in the program?
:
:Sincerely,
:
:Gene Wirchenko

I don't know why, but a significant portion of the PRG, including many
subroutines disappeared from the PRG. The last line read

RETU

I never enter that, I always enter RETURN at the end of my subroutines.
The programs and data are on a server machine. I was accessing the data
through the program from a wirelessly connected laptop. Maybe the
behavior was somehow due to a network glitch. I started a thread here,
and there are many posts:

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1713397

Dan


Email: dmusicant at pacbell dot net