SOCKET Error

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bob Stockler (Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:18:03 -0400):

> SCO OSR6 - filePro 5.6.02D4
>
> In the filePro file "email" in $PFPROG/fp/fputil/filepro,
> when editing "prc.input" with dcabe and saving it I get:
>
>   *** A filePro Wrror Has Occurred ***
>
>   Line Number: 21
>
>   MySocket = socket()
>              ^
>   Process contains a syntax error at position indicated.
>
> MySocket is properly declared on the table, and the help
> page for SOCKET indicates that family, type and protocol
> are optional arguments and are ignored if given.
>
> So what could be causing the error?
>
> That same table on Windows XP Pro and filePro 4.6.01D9
> passes the syntax checker with nary a whimper.

Do you have a sockets license on the SCO box?  (I would have
expected a license error if you didn't, but if you don't have
a sockets license, you can't use sockets, so I'd start looking
there as the cause.)

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