From the Baan server I want to rename a file on the client pc. How do I do this ?
And what's the syntax for file.mv.across.hosts ?
How do I specify a a hostname in the source and destination strings ?

thanks,

Walter

From the Baan server I want to rename a file on the client pc. How do I do this ?
And what's the syntax for file.mv.across.hosts ?
How do I specify a a hostname in the source and destination strings ?

thanks,

Walter

Hello,

file.mv.across.hosts()

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Syntax
long file.mv.across.hosts( const string source, const string target )

Description
This moves a specified source file to the location specified in the target argument. The file can be either local or remote. Source and target can be on different hosts.

Return values
1 Success.

<0 Error.

Thanks bdittmar,

I've read the help file but can you give me an example of the source and/or target strings if I want to copy file A to B on server S ?

Walter

I never could get that remote host to work. What I typically do is copy the file to the server. Have you tried building a cmd statement and using app_start to launch it? I think there are some examples on this board. Or a longer method - client2server, remove.local.file,server2client(with new name).

Thanks Mark,

Your'e longer method is clear to me. I was hoping file.mv() would be a nice short way to get the job done.

Walter

Actually it is, but I could never get the host pieces to work. Somehow the client has to be a trusted host on the server and their was no way our UNIX admins were going to let that happen. So i gave up on that method of doing things with the client.

Try this:

string command.line(100)

command.line = "cmd /c move c:\temp\file.txt c:\temp2\file.txt"
e = run.prog("cmd.exe", command.line, rp_wait)

Thanks dhowells,

I'm not sure if that would work. I'm running Baan on Unix and want to move the file on the Windows client pc.

It should work. However, it will open a black screen (the cmd window) infort of the user for less than a second and then close it..