@id

[John Esak]

I can't answer as to plans for @id being lengthened... but if they do it,
they better do it so that it *won't* return a longer field in SCO. We use it
extensively on screens and I  would not want it to start clobbering things
to the right of it. :-)  An IFDEF for sure.

John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Rendall
> [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+john=valar.com at lists.celestial.com]On
> Behalf Of Chris Rendall
> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 12:09 PM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: @id
> 
> 
> With SCO UNIX the longest username possible was 8 characters.  
> Linux allows longer usernames so I've created everyone's username 
> as the first initial and last name.  In filePro @id only returns 
> the first 8 characters which has broken a number of my apps since 
> it is cutting off the username.  I'm still running 5.0.14 and I'm 
> wondering if this has been fixed in a newer release, and it not 
> are there plans to expand @id to return the whole username?
> 
> Chris
> 
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