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[Asmith]

Darrel,

Thank you, I didn't even think of that while I was doing this code. It makes a lot more sense now. Thank you again.


I have one more question, well it's more of something going on with PBP. I have about 30 PCB board designs and Software for each of them. I have all the file to each board in a dedicated folder including the sch, pcb layout, and PBP files. In this one folder the board has 2 PICs onboard and when I try to compile one it overwrites all the files of the other ones, except for the pbp file. Also, what is stranger is that it takes my sch file and renames it after the file I just compiled, and the sch file has nothing to do with pbp. Has anyone ever seen this occur. It's only on this one folder so it's not a big deal I just made a seperate folder for each PIC inside the main folder.

Again thank you for all the help everyone. I appreciate the support. Hopefully this new project of mine will continue smoothly for a while.

Anthony Smith

[Darrel Taylor]

Yeah, isn't that annoying?
I lost several files before realizing what was going on.

When PBP does a compile, it first deletes all the files generated on the last compile.
But, instead of being Smart about it and verifiying the filenames it needs to delete, it just deletes everything with the same Name.

But here's the problem ... it uses the old DOS style names when it does it. So everything with the same 8 characters in the beginning of the filename also get deleted.

Let's say you have the following files ...

TestProg.PBP
TestProg.ASM
TestProg.LST
TestProg.XRF
TestProg.HEX
TestProg.XLS
TestProg.BRD

When you compile TestProg.PBP, you will lose the Excel and PC board files (.XLS and .BRD) because they have the same Name.

You would also lose these files, if they were there.

TestProg_Try2.HEX
TestProgram.ASM
TestProgram3.INC

or any other file with the same first 8 characters, that isn't a .BAS or .PBP.

So, you're right. It's best to have each program in it's own folder.
And, be sure to name anything else in that folder something different than the main program.


HTH,

[Ioannis]

Yeah, it is easy to do a:

del testprog.*

than check each file with its own extension.

Now I understand why I lost a project sometime ago and never knew why... pitty.

Thanks Darrel.

Ioannis

[Asmith]

Thank you for the insight on this issue Darrel. I understand what is going on now. I will be sure to keep everything seperated, or maybe just start the file name with the specific file task instead of end with it. Thanks again.

Anthony