Mecanique contact problems

[boroko]

Is it just me, or does anyone else get caught thinking this thread is about a Telemecanique relay (contactor)?

Seems like every time I see it come up, I do a double take....

Bo

[ralfmayr]

Hi quys,
having problems with MCSP results in the same when writing email to them => no answer (i tried 3 email addresses!, twice!).

Maybe somebidy here can help:
I have a courious effect: I have a project with one .bas files and several .inc files. All ok. After compiling the project: one .inc file has disappeared! It is completely deleted from the harddisk, also not to find in trash...!?

What happens there....!?

Regards,
Ralf

[Michael Wakileh]

I remember reading about a similar problem a long time ago. I believe the problem is that the file name length which the program uses to differentiate/recognize files(.bas or .inc) is quite low...wish I could point you to that thread...
Do the files have similar names?

[Melanie]

If in doubt, default to the old MS-DOS (CP/M) file names (which seem to work in almost all cases)...

Rules...

(1) No more than 8 Characters (only Alphabetics, Numerics and Hyphen allowed)
(2) No Spaces
(3) No Hieroglyphics ie Ampersands (&), Asterisks (*), Commas, Full-Stops, Percents (%) or anything else - as many had special meanings within the File, Directory or Search System.
(4) You could have a Full-Stop (Period) and you could then follow that with an extension of up to three characters (in our case it's .BAS or .LST or .HEX etc)

All of which leads me to suspect that the PICBasic Command Line Parser has it's roots further back than you might think.

...and before anybody gets any strange ideas about my age... my Dad brought home an old Heath/Zenith Z89 from a local junk shop to play with one day when I was a kid... thought I might learn something... yeah... I learnt about Hard Sectored Floppy Disks with a 102kb capacity and an operating system called HDOS - real useful!

[ralfmayr]

Hi all,
thanks for the answers. I have filenames between 8 and 16 characters, but the curious thing is, i copied the content of the file into a new one, stored it under a new name, now it works. When i compile the "old" version under MPLAB, nothing happens. Only when using MCSP this effect happens. I tried to contact now several times Mecanique, no successs! Is it a one man show, and this quy is in holiday or what is this for a company!? Never had so bad support like from them....
Regards,
Ralf

[Melanie]

Look if somebody is giving you grief, then change your supplier...

As Aleksandr Orlov (www.comparethemeerkat.com) would say "simples".

[keithdoxey]

Hi all,
thanks for the answers. I have filenames between 8 and 16 characters, but the curious thing is, i copied the content of the file into a new one, stored it under a new name, now it works.

Hi Ralf, just one thought on this....

where are you storing the folder containing all the files ? If its in MyDocument or on the desktop then that could contribute to the problem with filename length as the path would be quite long.

My documents is actually
C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\My Documents

likewise the desktop is
C:\Documents and Settings\<user_name>\Desktop

If it is then nested a couple of folders down from that the total path length gets quite big.

[kirtcathey]

About a year ago I wanted EasyHID so forked out funds for the MCSP upgrade, but same thing - the software developer was totally unresponsive to ANY inquiry. However, when I asked for a refund, the refund came through the very next day.