Why?

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Simon" <flowersoft at compuserve.com>
To: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
Cc: "'Filepro-List'" <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 10:41 PM
Subject: Re: Why?


> No, I know which records break rreport because the table only gets called
> for those records.  Running rclerk on those same records does not break.

I will have to do my test again.
I did not treat this as a call table, I ran it directly using -z and -fp
I'll do it as a call table and see it that makes it break.

I'm guessing it's environment.
maybe under report the table runs out of room to run in
and the PF[""|AU|FORM]TOKSIZE variables need attention,
or under report the process requires more open file handles,

Neither of those would be a bug, just a result of clerk and report being in
fact different programs that do different jobs, in different ways, that
merely happen to such a superb and excellent level of compatibility that you
forgot they are even different.

What would be a bug in my opinion is that, in both of those examples filepro
should be able to die more gracefully and more informatively that it did for
you. That's only if your problem turns out to be like that, which we haven't
yet by a long shot.

Maybe you do something in -v processing for the report that you don't do in
clerk, or do in a differently? Theres tons of things you haven't defined
yet.

...
ok, I have adjusted my test code and re-did the test as a call table.
Not having any details to guide me one way or the other, I defined all the
small variables in the call table and defined lct in the parent as a global
and as and extern in the child and used it to pass the final value back to
the parent and displayed it from there.

here is prc.parent:
---begin---
top::call "test":
::msgbox lct:
::end:
@keyt:' written so that the same code can be run in both clerk & report:goto
top
::declare global lct(30,lowup):
---end---

here is revised prc.test:
---start---
::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,"|"," "):
::end:
::declare extern lct:
---end---

and here are the commands used to run them:
rreport test -fp parent -y NoAuto -a
rclerk test -z parent -y NoAuto -s0

They both worked perfect.

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