Topic: Using -q (quiet) switch with Vedit to sort (1 of 5), Read 62 times
Conf: Error messages, Crashes
From: Chad Scott
Date: Friday, September 05, 2003 11:36 AM

Since I am fairly new to VEdit I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or if this is an actual bug...
I am trying to use VEdit from the command line in quiet mode to sort a text file. The command I am using is:
>>vpw -q -c SortMerge("1,16",0,FSize) C:\petr\test2.dat -a c:\petr\test2out.dat<<
(without the >> << around the entire command).
From going through the documentation I think that this should sort the entire test2.dat file using characters from column 1 thru column 16 as the sort key. The text file contains numbers as follows:
8912586000054997
8912586000055267
8912586001056066
8912586001059193
8912586001071123
8912586001071420
6008379812003116
6008379812003249
6008379812003256
6008379812003264
6008379812003272
The sorted list should be saved in the test2out.dat file as specified with the -a switch.
What I get from the command is >The instruction at "0x00426e1a" referenced memory at "0x00000000". The memory could not be "read".<
When I try the command without the -q switch it works perfectly but leaves me in the VEdit application, I would like to have it perform the sort without any GUI showing.
I am running on W2K Pro and this happens after a fresh boot without any other applications running (other than all the normal services), this machine also has Network Associates VirusScan NT 4.0.3a on it. I tried disabling the virus scan and the error still occurs. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Chad.

 


Topic: Re: Using -q (quiet) switch with Vedit to sort (2 of 5), Read 46 times
Conf: Error messages, Crashes
From: Ted Green
Date: Friday, September 05, 2003 03:07 PM

At 11:54 AM 9/5/2003, you wrote:
>Since I am fairly new to VEdit I am not sure if I am doing something wrong or if this is an actual bug...
>I am trying to use VEdit from the command line in quiet mode to sort a text file. The command I am using is:
>>>vpw -q -c SortMerge("1,16",0,FSize) C:\petr\test2.dat -a c:\petr\test2out.dat<<

While the "-q" option works with many macros, it does not always work. I suspect that the sortmerge() command's attempt to display progress on the status line is causing it to crash.

I will add this to our bug list; hopefully we can fix it soon.

Ted.

 


Topic: Re: Using -q (quiet) switch with Vedit to sort (3 of 5), Read 33 times
Conf: Error messages, Crashes
From: Chad Scott
Date: Monday, March 14, 2005 04:59 PM

Any idea when this problem may be addressed? I tested with v6.13 and it still does a big crash.

 


Topic: Re: Using -q (quiet) switch with Vedit to sort (4 of 5), Read 26 times
Conf: Error messages, Crashes
From: Ted Green
Date: Monday, April 11, 2005 11:57 PM

At 05:59 PM 3/14/2005, you wrote:
>From: "Chad Scott"
>
>Any idea when this problem may be addressed? I tested with v6.13 and it still does a big crash.

This problem was fixed today.
We also recently fixed the problem that 6.13.1 will not save explicit
(non uniform) tab stops.

A new version with these fixes can be downloaded from:

www.vedit.com/download/beta/vpw-prod.exe

If you also need the 64-bit version:

www.vedit.com/download/beta/vw-pro64.exe

Ted.

 


Topic: Re: Using -q (quiet) switch with Vedit to sort (5 of 5), Read 29 times
Conf: Error messages, Crashes
From: Chad Scott
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 11:11 AM

Thanks Ted, I'll give it a try.

Regards,
Chad