Different results

[Nancy Palmquist]

Tom Carey wrote:
> I'm using ver 4.50  in a DOS environment. If have a program that runs 
> correctly when run from the quickstart menu choice, but when run from 
> the standard add, update, inquire menu selection the program generates 
> an error on a lookup. That particualr lookup and key had been successful 
> earlier in the program.
>  
> I have been very careful to make sure that the program was compiled 
> under the quickstart option so I "should"  be executing the same code. 
> Yes I do say Yes to the create runtime version in the compile step.
>  
> Interestingly, the size of the tokenized program is different when 
> tokenized under regular and quickstart versions.
>  
> Also, I searched the on line manual for information concerning the 
> Quickstart options and it doesn't show on any of the menus shown and it 
> is not referenced in the documentation anywhere that I could find
>  
> Can anyone shed some light on this?
>  
> Thanks
>  
> Tom Carey
>  
> Almost a Filepro programmer.
Tom,

1) On the menu are you using dclerk or rclerk?

2) If rclerk, did you ask it to tokenize the automatic table also?  All 
the tables used must be tokenized.  You will see input.tok as well as 
input.prc in the folder for that database.

3) Show us the lookup line that is failing, please.

Quickstart is the name assigned to the version of filePro that generates 
a compiled process table (.tok) this was for speed and security (mostly 
speed)

The rclerk and rreport versions of filepro will only run tables with 
.tok extensions.

The dclerk and dreport versions will only run tables with .prc extensions.

Quickstart versions do not have any debugging capabilities.

The define processing program (rcabe/dcabe) can only open regular 
process tables (.prc).  The rcabe version is then able to save both the 
.prc version and a .tok version.  This is not related to the Tokenize 
size that is displayed.  That is a rough estimate of the memory that the 
process table will require - it is very rough but will give you an idea.

Hope all this helps

nancy


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