@ub & @cb issues

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:28:40PM -0400, Tim Fischer wrote:
> This is a pretty weird one.  For some users, when I have *@cb or *@ub on a
> screen, report or browse, instead of showing the user id (sueb or dz - no
> more than 3 characters) I get #-552 or something similar.  Has anyone seen
> this before?
> 
> I'm not really sure what kind of info to include - I'm on Solaris 9 running
> FP 5.0.13D4.  Happens in d and rreport/clerk.

I rather strongly suspect that Solaris permits unsigned shorts for
UID's, and your filePro does not... and that you have users with UID's
higher than 32767.

Cheers,
-- jra
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