showlock command

[Dennis Malen]

Good idea!

We had to pay a guy in the midwest.

Dennis Malen
516.479.5912
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GCC Consulting" <gccconsulting at comcast.net>
To: "'Dennis Malen'" <dmalen at malen.com>; "'Fairlight'" 
<fairlite at fairlite.com>; <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 10:45 PM
Subject: RE: showlock command


> Dennis,
>
> IBM's has an office at 590 Madison avenue and another on the Island.
>
> Now it was a long time ago, but 590 had a very complete computer room
> running most, of IBM's midrange offerings.
>
> I did my  first System/36 to As/400 conversion there.  Have you considered
> calling your sales Rep and finding out if they have a comparable machine
> available with a compiler so that you could go there and compile this
> program?
>
> Richard Kreiss
> GCC Consulting
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From:
>> filepro-list-bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.celestial
>> .com
>> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+gccconsulting=comcast.net at lists.c
>> elestial.com] On Behalf Of Dennis Malen
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 7:29 PM
>> To: Fairlight; filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>> Subject: Re: showlock command
>>
>> Therein lies the problem for AIX. In order for us to upgrade
>> to AIX we had to find a system that had a compiler for AIX
>> and pay for filePro to be able to log in and re-compile the
>> program. It was worth it to get to 5.0. We will eventually go
>> to 5.6. I hate to have to pay for access to a compiler again.
>>
>>
>> Dennis Malen
>> 516.479.5912
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
>> To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 6:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: showlock command
>>
>>
>> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 06:00:28PM -0400, Bob Stockler, the
>> prominent
>> > pundit,
>> > witicized:
>> >> Top Post . . .
>> >>
>> >> As an AIX compiled "showlock" program is required, so also is the
>> >> KornShell required to run the shell script "lock.info", and I'm not
>> >> sure it's distributed with AIX (though the script could possibly be
>> >> edited to run under another shell).
>> >
>> > Everything I just read indicates that AIX ships ksh and
>> links /bin/sh to
>> > it.  This is supposed to be the default since at least AIX
>> 4.1.  Shouldn't
>> > be a technical issue there.
>> >
>> > Getting hold of a compiled showlock for AIX...that's another story.
>> >
>> > Maybe someone should rewrite it in something a bit more
>> portable as one
>> > cohesive program rather than script+binary...  Just a
>> thought.  Then
>> > again,
>> > how many fP users run AIX that it'd be worth doing?
>> Probably not many if
>> > fP-Tech couldn't even compile 5.0.x on AIX for a long time, they
>> > apparently
>> > never offered fpcgi for it based on their product platform
>> listings, etc.
>> >
>> > mark->
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