A horror in release code
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Maybe this isn't the right place for this post since I don't have the code (so please move it if it doesn't belong), but it is clearly a horror on the part of the original programmers. We use the enterprise shipping software of a major shipping company (that uses yellow trucks with red lettering). Whenever we ship something using the software, a floppy disk must be in the drive (even though it neither reads a file from the disk or writes a file to the disk), otherwise it will fail with a .NET error WHILE TRYING TO EXECUTE THE C# COMPILER! While I'm sure that in some circumstances, writing code on the fly can be beneficial, I cannot even begin to imagine that it is even remotely necessary for shipping packages.
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Maybe this isn't the right place for this post since I don't have the code (so please move it if it doesn't belong), but it is clearly a horror on the part of the original programmers. We use the enterprise shipping software of a major shipping company (that uses yellow trucks with red lettering). Whenever we ship something using the software, a floppy disk must be in the drive (even though it neither reads a file from the disk or writes a file to the disk), otherwise it will fail with a .NET error WHILE TRYING TO EXECUTE THE C# COMPILER! While I'm sure that in some circumstances, writing code on the fly can be beneficial, I cannot even begin to imagine that it is even remotely necessary for shipping packages.
What does it do if you don't have a floppy drive?
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What does it do if you don't have a floppy drive?
I don't know. The machine that they provided has one. It's just on the one machine which has the scale and label printer attached.
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I don't know. The machine that they provided has one. It's just on the one machine which has the scale and label printer attached.
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Sounds like a poor mans dongle ;P
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((lambda (x) `((lambda (x) ,x) ',x)) '`((lambda (x) ,x) ',x))You wouldn't want someone belittling your dongle, would you?
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Maybe this isn't the right place for this post since I don't have the code (so please move it if it doesn't belong), but it is clearly a horror on the part of the original programmers. We use the enterprise shipping software of a major shipping company (that uses yellow trucks with red lettering). Whenever we ship something using the software, a floppy disk must be in the drive (even though it neither reads a file from the disk or writes a file to the disk), otherwise it will fail with a .NET error WHILE TRYING TO EXECUTE THE C# COMPILER! While I'm sure that in some circumstances, writing code on the fly can be beneficial, I cannot even begin to imagine that it is even remotely necessary for shipping packages.
Scott Barbour wrote:
a floppy disk must be in the drive
Any floppy disk, or a specific one provided by them?
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Maybe this isn't the right place for this post since I don't have the code (so please move it if it doesn't belong), but it is clearly a horror on the part of the original programmers. We use the enterprise shipping software of a major shipping company (that uses yellow trucks with red lettering). Whenever we ship something using the software, a floppy disk must be in the drive (even though it neither reads a file from the disk or writes a file to the disk), otherwise it will fail with a .NET error WHILE TRYING TO EXECUTE THE C# COMPILER! While I'm sure that in some circumstances, writing code on the fly can be beneficial, I cannot even begin to imagine that it is even remotely necessary for shipping packages.
Scott Barbour wrote:
cannot even begin to imagine that it is even remotely necessary for shipping packages.
Same here.
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer "Real programmers just throw a bunch of 1s and 0s at the computer to see what sticks" - Pete O'Hanlon "Not only do you continue to babble nonsense, you can't even correctly remember the nonsense you babbled just minutes ago." - Rob Graham
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Maybe this isn't the right place for this post since I don't have the code (so please move it if it doesn't belong), but it is clearly a horror on the part of the original programmers. We use the enterprise shipping software of a major shipping company (that uses yellow trucks with red lettering). Whenever we ship something using the software, a floppy disk must be in the drive (even though it neither reads a file from the disk or writes a file to the disk), otherwise it will fail with a .NET error WHILE TRYING TO EXECUTE THE C# COMPILER! While I'm sure that in some circumstances, writing code on the fly can be beneficial, I cannot even begin to imagine that it is even remotely necessary for shipping packages.
I guess the message was "Drive not A not Ready" from crss.exe. The reason for that is simple. You have in your application somewhere a drive letter selection combo box. That little snippet should exhibit this problem: foreach (DriveInfo d in DriveInfo.GetDrives()) { Console.WriteLine("Root: {0}", d.RootDirectory); } All you have to do is to check the DriveType if it is removeable and skip it altogether. If you do not access it then you wont have any problems with drive not ready messages. Yours, Alois Kraus
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You wouldn't want someone belittling your dongle, would you?
even worse, it's a poor man's floppy dongle!
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