Kbase 16459: Internal Results files - what are Qbf.p, Qbf.d and Qbf2.d ?
| Autor |
Progress Software Corporation - Progress |
| Acesso |
Público |
| Publicação |
5/10/1998 |
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Internal Results files - what are Qbf.p, Qbf.d and Qbf2.d ?
Internal Results files - what are _qbf.p, _qbf.d and _qbf2.d ?
(These files may also be called Qbf.p, Qbf.d, and Qbf2.d)
It can be helpful when troubleshooting Results errors to know about
files which Results creates and uses internally.
_qbf.p - This contains the 4gl code for the most recent query which
Results has printed or previewed. It is a temporary file
that should exist only from the time the query is printed
or previewed to the time Results is exited. The -T startup
parameter (Temporary Directory) will not change the location
of the _qbf.p file.
_qbf.d - There are two reasons why Results may create this file.
1) When saving a new query to an existing query directory file,
Results creates this file to keep track of what queries
already exist in this query directory file. The new query is
not added to this list until: A) another query is created and
saved to this query directory file or B) the same query is
saved again to this query directory.
2) Results also creates a Qbf.p file during the course of an
application rebuild. In this case it is a temporary copy of
the .QC7 file. It is deleted from the system after the
current Results session ends. It is also overwritten if
Results needs a Qbf.p to keep track of query directory
information (as described in usage 1 above) when saving
queries or when the user chooses to rebuild all query files
during an application rebuild. In this case the .Qbf.p is
temporarily created for usage 2 and then overwritten for
usage 1.
_qbf2.d This is the output for the last query that was sent to a
printer. This is not created when only previewing a query.
These files will get created in the same directory that contains the
query files (que####.p) and the query directory file (*.qd7) for the
query they are referencing. Note: this will not necessarily be the
user's working directory.
An error will occur if two users are trying to run queries from the
same shared directory. This is because two Qbf files can not be
created at the same time for different users. To avoid this error,
and to avoid each user overwriting each other's queries, each user
must use a distinct working directory for their own queries.
An error may also occur if a user does not have write permission to
the directory containing the queries because these internal files will
not be able to be created.
Progress Software Technical Support Note # 16459