File extensions

[Intel_C_Intel]

Hello All
I have recently moved from Microsoft Power Station to Visual Fortran (compaq) 6.5. I use a program called NONMEM (Nonlinear Mixed Effects Modeling) in which we have a control file in Word and the data file is in Excel (which is saved as*.CSV) extension. Then we run the program from command line. There is no problem when I was using the Power Station for the past 1 year. Now the real problem starts. The new compiler ver 6.5 simply says that my data file which is stored as *.CSV extension cannot be opened. I tried various formats too (*prn, txt format). Nothing works. I never faced this problem with Power Station. This was a common problem in WinME and even Win 95, 98 and 2000. There is a common problem somewhere. I checked on various machines (PI, PII, PIII and PIV) but still it is. I even upgraded the version to 6.6. BUt it will not solve the problem. I bought the software begining of this year. I am highly frustrated by this. Perhaps I should gp back to my old Microsoft Power Station Ver 4.03.
Could somebody please help me in this? I am ready to send any files anybody wants to check my problem.

Thanks in advance for all your time

Atul
Post-Doctoral Fellow
University of Florida
Gainesville-32601
Ph: 352-846-3257

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Please send details of the problem, including your source code (in a ZIP file please) and the data file, along with the exact error message, to vf-support@compaq.com. Please also let us know where in the directory structure you have the .CSV file.

My guess is that you are running the program from Developer Studio and the .CSV file is not in the project folder (where the .DSP file is).

Steve

[Intel_C_Intel]

Hello Steve
I dont run the file from developer studio. The program we use NONMEM has some link commands by which we run from command line (DOS). So we use something like this
c: cd nmv
c: mv:cd run
c: mv un:nmfe5 xxx.txt xxx.out

This xxx.txt will have the data file name which will have the name as xxx.csv. So in essence we use word for text file which is saved in our program folder called RUN and our data file as *.CSV. So when we start the program by using the lines from command prompt it links these two and you can see the program running. Now this happens with no problem in Microsoft Power Station Ver 4.0. I know many people using the Visual Fortran elsewhere. But I dont know why it is not working for me. Installation wise I think it was fine since I am able to compile the celsius.for example. Should I still send thedata files? how and where can one run them under the circumstances which I am using.
Could you please share your views on this?

Thanks
Atul

[Intel_C_Intel]

I think you are counting on being able to open files specified on the
command line, by leaving the filename blank (file=' ') in the open statement.
This is a Microsoft extension, that is avaiable in CVF, but not turned on
in the default project settings. Go to your project settings, select the
Fortran tab, pick compatibility in the category list, and then in the Powerstation
4.0 compatibilty box, check the 'filenames from command line' option.