Progress 4GL: Regarding OUTPUT TO statement

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What happens when I don't give directory path? Where the file is exported?

DEFINE VARIABLE cPath AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO.
cPath = STRING(MTIME) + "_user.out".

OUTPUT TO VALUE (cPath).
MESSAGE "In side a file".
OUTPUT CLOSE.
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The file is exported to your client's working directory. That is typically the directory where you've been in when you have started the client process (_progres, prowin, prowin32).

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You can use FILE-INFO to find out:

DEFINE VARIABLE cPath AS CHARACTER NO-UNDO.
cPath = STRING(MTIME) + "_user.out".

OUTPUT TO VALUE (cPath).
MESSAGE "In side a file".
OUTPUT CLOSE.

file-info:file-name = "./" + cPath.
message cPath file-info:full-pathname.

By the way - if you are hoping that using MTIME() to prefix the file name is going to result in a unique file name then you may be disappointed. Multiple processes running at the same time could have collisions. Or you may have old stale files left over from crashed sessions.

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