Relative file reference

OK-relatively new to the product, so bear with me. Due to
file size, I needed to link several projects together. From info I
got here, I wanted to use a relative file reference so I could copy
the .swf's to other computers. So at the end of each module, the
project is to open a new file ( ..\file\file2.htm). This method
worked fine on my computer. When I copied the necessary files to a
different computer and the first module finished, it tried to find
the file on my local drive. Can anyone help?

Try using links formatted as follows:
for files in subfolders from the calling file use
foldername/filename
for files in folders above the subfolder use
../filename

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A File Reference and its evolving life!

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I've noticed something that came as a little bit of a surprise to me, but I think I have the explanation, at a hand-wavy higher level anyway. What I have not established is if this is a 'bug' or a 'feature', and if there are any ways the following issue can be avoided at the NI function/api layer.
Consider the file open and file close function. You open a file, you use the reference to the file to write/read data, then at some point you close the reference and the close function spits out the file-path. Here are a couple of tid-bits you may not be aware of (that are easy to test):
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So, what do you guys think?? Is the behavior of returning the (incorrect) original file-path when you close the handle a BUG or a FEATURE?? Would it not be possible for LabVIEW to read back the data contained in the (OS?) pointer location and as needed update the file out path data when it closes a reference? Should we not EXPECT that this would be the behavior?
Q3) Again, continuning from the above situation, lets assume we are back at the state in Q1, writing data to a (re)named file. What happens if the file is deleted by an external process? What happens to the file reference? File function calls using the reference?
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I am not sure if the above is possible on e.g. Windows, Windows would probably prevent you from re-naming a file that has an open file-handle to it, but this is definitley observable on at least vxWorks cRIO targets. (I don't have PharLap ETS or RTLinux devices so I can't test on those targets.. if you want to test its pretty straigth forward to make a simple test app for it.)
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QFang
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Hey guys, thanks for turning out your comments on this thread!
-Deny Access : still able to re-name (and delete) the file via FTP browser (didn't test other file avenues). I think this is for the same reason that NI vxWorks targets (such as cRIO-9014) do not support the concept of different users with different rights, as such, everyone have access rights to everything at the OS level. Another issue for me would be that "Deny Access" does not work on TDMS file references, so even if it worked, it would not help me.
--> I strongly suspect that these things are non-issues or issues that can be properly managed, on the new NI LinuxRT targets since (the ftp is disabled by default) it supports user accounts and user restrictions on files/folders. The controller could simply create the files in a tree where 'nobody else' has write access.
Obviously nobody should mess around with files on a (running) cRIO, but customers don't always do what they are supposed to do.
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I've included a zip with the LV2013 project and test VI's (one for tdms one for binary) that I've used. nothing fancy, but in the interest of full disclosure. The snippet is the 'binary file' test vi, in case you just want a quick peak:
Steve Bird's findings of (yet) another behavior on Pharlap systems is also very interesting, I think!!
[EDIT] JUST TO CLARIFY, on vxWorks, the re-named file keeps being successfully written to, unlike the PharLaps' empty file that Steve Bird found.
QFang
CLD LabVIEW 7.1 to 2013
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>
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>
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