Why?

[George Simon]

The thing is that it just doesn't happen in one computer.  It happens in
every computer I have tried so far.  Same code, different records.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian K. White" <brian at aljex.com>
To: "filePro mailing list" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Why?


>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "George Simon" <george at worldest.com>
> To: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
> Cc: "'Filepro-List'" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 3:17 PM
> Subject: RE: Why?
>
>
> > All dummy fields (gu, gv, gw, lct, etc.) are all defined as lowup.
> >
> > I guess my question is "Why does code that works with d/rclerk, foes not
> > work with d/rreport?"
>
> Auto processing? Commands or system fields or other features that work
> differently (on purpose) between clerk & report? Could be any of a zillion
> things that no one but you is in a position to diagnose.
> There may in fact be a filepro problem, but so far you have not shown it
> yet.
>
> I know if I punched that code in it wouldn't fail for me either.
> Ask me how I know :)
>
> Since "it worked for me" then there is something else besides what you
have
> shown so far, because I adhered to everything you said so far, which only
> leaves about a million other things that could still be different between
my
> test and yours.
> hmm, well, one thing that's different is I used 5.0.13 sco unix.
>
> here is my exact prc.test in it's entirety, except I edited out the site
> password:
> -----begin-----
> top::gu(2,lowup) = "gu" ; gv(2,lowup) = "gv" ; gw(2,lowup) = "gw":
> ::gx(2,lowup) = "gx" ; gy(2,lowup) = "gy" ; ma(2,lowup) = "ma":
> ::mb(2,lowup) = "mb" ; me(2,lowup) = "me" ; mf(2,lowup) = "mf":
> ::ky = "|":
> ::lct = ""{gu{ky{gv{ky{gw{ky{gx{ky{gy{ky{ma{ky{mb{ky{me{ky{mf:
> ::msgbox lct:
> ::lct = xlate(lct,"|"," "):
> ::msgbox lct:
> ::end:
> @keyt:' written so that the same code can be run in both clerk &
report:goto
> top:
> ::declare lct(30,lowup):
> -----end-----
>
> And here are the commands I used to test it:
> rreport test -fp test -y NoAuto
> rclerk test -z test -y NoAuto
>
> And it worked perfect both times.
>
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