hello listers,
i would like to thank everyone who has helped me these past couple of
weeks with writing my first program EVER!
after six weeks of struggle it finally works and i have you guys to
thank for it.  thanks.
diana

here are a few useful tips on trapping errors when dealing with a lot of
records.  the first tip is some while loops that check if the dir exists
and prompt you to create the dir if it doesn't exist (this way you don't
have to start from record one everytime you come across and 'invalid
source name'!).  the second tip shows you where the problem is in the
script.

schlFileName=(fullpath+schlpath).AsFileName
schldirFileName=schlFileName.ReturnDir
while (schldirFileName.IsDir.Not)
  msgbox.warning(schldirFileName.AsString,"Directory does not exist")
end


LogFile = LineFile.Make("c:/temp/log.log".asfilename, #FILE_PERM_WRITE)
for each aRec in theRecords
  LogFile.WriteElt("The srcname is "+thesrcname.asstring)
end
LogFile.Close

If there is a crash you can see where things go wrong.