Conference vaxuum::online_bookbuilding

357.0. "\special problems" by MARVIN::KNOWLES (intentionally Rive Gauche) Mon Jul 09 1990 11:36

    Working with the latest tools (1.2B, 25 Jan) I'm getting an odd error.
    Bookwriter doesn't like some .fse files that it has already succesfully
    used in another book (for which I did the graphics on DECwrite and
    converted to .fse with UTOX). It _does_ like some other .fse files 
    that I've just produced with RAGS; but it _does_n't like another
    one I did with RAGS - same version, T2.3 - a couple of weeks ago.
    
    I'd suspect the length of a filename, but the filenames are all exactly 
    the same (same directory, just different numbers in the name) as two that 
    have been included successfully in yet another book. I didn't keep a
    log of that build, but there's no reason (I can see) why I couldn't,
    if that'd be useful.
    
    Any ideas? 
    
    Here are relevant bits of the .lis file.  I've put a few comments in,
    cued by ��. Thanks for any help you can give.
    
    Bob

[ D e v i c e    C o n v e r s i o n ]...
%DVC-I-INCLUDING, including input file: 
   PROG-PROFILE_CONTENTS
%DVC-I-INCLUDED, File BOOKS$OBJ:V11-RE6468.FSE was successfully included
��This is one of the ones I did with RAGS T2.3
%DVC-W-SPECIALERROR, error in \special 
   bookr: plotfile  BOOKS$OBJ:V11-RE1033.FSE
-DVC-W-FIGFILOPN, cannot open figure file
-DVC-I-INPUTFILE, input file is: 
   KNOWLES_SRC_ROOT:[SRC.BOOKS]PROG-PROFILE.DVI_BOOKREADER
-DVC-I-ONPAGE, on page [PART1-50] 
��BOOKS$OBJ is a logical I use; it expands quite a bit, but not too
��much - as witness the first file successfully included. V11-RE1033
��is one of my DECwrite/UTOX files; it works in another book.
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��Loads more similar errors
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%DVC-W-SPECIALERROR, error in \special 
   bookr: plotfile  BOOKS$OBJ:V11-RE1208.FSE
-DVC-W-FIGFILOPN, cannot open figure file
-DVC-I-INPUTFILE, input file is: 
   KNOWLES_SRC_ROOT:[SRC.BOOKS]PROG-PROFILE.DVI_BOOKREADER
-DVC-I-ONPAGE, on page [PART3-331] 
��This, like other files successfully included, came from RAGS T2.3
%DVC-I-INCLUDING, including input file: 
   PROG-PROFILE_INDEX
%DVC-I-BOOKBUILT, book was successfully built
    

DOCUMENT PROG-PROFILE.SDML; ONLINE.HANDBOOK BOOKREADER/CONT/INDE=(GUIDE_HEADINGS,SORT=(LETTER))/LIST=PROG-PROFILE.LIS;/NOPRIN/SYMB=KNOWLES_EXE_ROOT:[SYM]V11-BOOKS-SYMBOLS.SDML;
Date/Time:  9-JUL-1990 14:49:12.40
CPU time: 406.94 secs.

    The "dvc$_figfilopn" error only occurs if an error is returned when
    opening a file. In these instances the "dna=keyword" option (this is
    the option that has the bug that limits filename length) is not used
    so filename length is not at fault.  I'd check the protections on the
    file if that's not it send me a pointer to a couple of the files with a
    note on how they were created.
    
    
    Mike

    Oops. I haven't checked yet, but I suspect the FIGFILOPN error was my
    fault. The clue is that some files worked in another book (where they had
    different names).  I changed the names for the new book, but left
    a couple of characters in.
    
    Thanks for the offer of help, Mike; but I think the problem's more
    with my head than with the device converter.
    
    b