After 13 years of using this product I can't believe I could find a new extension. However, today when trying to add a new entry to a SET. I got an error message about the RULES. (Can't remember the exact wording)
It seems that at 15.04 yesterday the RLC and the RUL extensions for the SET were changed or created. The RLC I understand, but what changed it at that time I don't have the foggiest and 2 seconds later there was an RUL file with the same name created/modified. There is no mention of an RUL extension in the V6 reference manual.
I tried looking at possible culprits and the only thing that I might have been doing at that time was trying to use PKZIP to zip the directory where the SET was located. (I hadn't realized that Alpha was open on 3 computers on the network) The acual ZIPPING was taking some time as I have a lot of data but when I realized that I was trying to ZIP files that might be open I closed all the Alpha sessions and repeated the ZIP. This time it went pretty quickly.
I can't be sure of the timing of my ZIPPING but it is really the only thought I have that it might be related to the creation of an RUL file. There was nobody on the network that could have done this. If I knew what a RUL extension was I might be able to analyse better.
To get on with work, I moved the newRLC and the RUL to another directory and copied an old RLC file to my working directory and everything was back to working, as it has for the last umpteen years.
Anybody else seen an RUL file? I did a search in my directory for any other file with an extension RUL and came up empty handed and this is with 3573 files and 132Mb of data having 237 dbf files.
Steve
It seems that at 15.04 yesterday the RLC and the RUL extensions for the SET were changed or created. The RLC I understand, but what changed it at that time I don't have the foggiest and 2 seconds later there was an RUL file with the same name created/modified. There is no mention of an RUL extension in the V6 reference manual.
I tried looking at possible culprits and the only thing that I might have been doing at that time was trying to use PKZIP to zip the directory where the SET was located. (I hadn't realized that Alpha was open on 3 computers on the network) The acual ZIPPING was taking some time as I have a lot of data but when I realized that I was trying to ZIP files that might be open I closed all the Alpha sessions and repeated the ZIP. This time it went pretty quickly.
I can't be sure of the timing of my ZIPPING but it is really the only thought I have that it might be related to the creation of an RUL file. There was nobody on the network that could have done this. If I knew what a RUL extension was I might be able to analyse better.
To get on with work, I moved the newRLC and the RUL to another directory and copied an old RLC file to my working directory and everything was back to working, as it has for the last umpteen years.
Anybody else seen an RUL file? I did a search in my directory for any other file with an extension RUL and came up empty handed and this is with 3573 files and 132Mb of data having 237 dbf files.
Steve
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