Absolutely weirdest problem

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Sun May 7 05:55:10 PDT 2006


Quoting Howard Wolowitz (Sat, 6 May 2006 12:57:41 -0400):

> Warning:
>
> I had a really weird problem with filepro the other day running rcabe
> 5.0.13R4 under SCO UNIX.
[...]
>      If:    sf="qu"
> Then:    wb=qa{; goto wbt
>
> Notice there is nothing after the {  - which is, of course, an error.
>
> But, the table passed the syntax check so I didn't notice the typo and
> then both rclerk and dclerk went to never-never land when they tried to
> execute the bad instruction.  It took quite some time to figure it out
> using the debugger - which also just hung at that instruction.
>
> I thought it was a major bug but when I tried to document it in a small,
> test process it wouldn't pass the syntax check, which is, of course, it
> shouldn't.
>
> If anyone is interested I will send them the processing table, which
> uses only dummy fields for the lookup file names so you can try it
> yourself.
[...]

Could you please send me the prc table, the automatic table it goes
with, the map for the file (along with the filename, of course), and
the tok file that rcabe generated?

Since the lookups are are variable filenames, I won't need any maps
for the lookup files.

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