FIX: ERR Files Contain Carriage Return and No Linefeed

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 3.0b, 5.0, 5.0a, 6.0

SYMPTOMS

You compile a Visual FoxPro program file, form, class library, or report that contains at least one compile error. SET LOGERRORS is ON, which is the default, and this forces Visual FoxPro to write any compile errors to a .ERR file. When the .ERR file is opened within the Visual FoxPro editor, it will appear as expected with line feeds between each line, but if the file is opened with another editor, such as Notepad, no line feeds appear, and the text will all appear on a single line.

CAUSE

The .ERR file is written with a carriage return character (ASCII value 13) at the end of each line, but no line feed character (ASCII 10). The Visual FoxPro editor moves to a new line with each ASCII 13 character, but other editors such as Notepad may not.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a bug in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

This bug was corrected in Visual Studio 6.0 Service Pack 3.

For more information about Visual Studio service packs, please see the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q194022 INFO: Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs, What, Where, Why

Q194295 HOWTO: Tell That Visual Studio 6.0 Service Packs Are Installed

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. Run the following code from a program (.PRG) file:




=STRTOFILE('This line will cause an error!'+ CHR(13) + CHR(10) + ;
'So will this one!', 'testxx.prg')
SET LOGERRORS ON    && This is the default
COMPILE testxx.prg
RUN /N notepad testxx.err 

MOTE: If you are running Visual FoxPro 3.0 or 5.0, then you must create the program file manually. The STRTOFILE function is not available in earlier versions of Visual FoxPro.


2. Look at the error file that is opened in Notepad.



3. All the text will appear on the same line, but it will wrap if Word Wrap is enabled in Notepad. The file will contain the text below. The character represented here as [] will appear as a black square in Notepad.

This line will cause an error![]Error in line 1: Unrecognized command verb.[]So will this one![]Error in line 3: Unrecognized command verb.[]

REFERENCES

© Microsoft Corporation 1999, All Rights Reserved.
Contributions by Jim Saunders, Microsoft Corporation

Additional query words:

Keywords : kbVFp300bbug kbVFp500abug kbVFp600 kbVFp600bug kbXBase kbVS600sp3fix kbGrpFox
Version : WINDOWS:3.0,3.0b,5.0,5.0a,6.0
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug