SOCKET Error

Bob Stockler bob at trebor.iglou.com
Mon Jul 10 12:59:20 PDT 2006


Ken Brody wrote (on Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 01:47:20PM -0400):

| 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.)

Exexcuting "licinfo" reports a Sockets feature license.

Bob

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