Ahh... That sense of humour that we've all learned to know and appreciate... Thanks, Jim!
On Apr 1, 12:47 pm, Jim Idle <[email protected]> wrote: > As I understand it, support for PROC is withdrawn as of today and unless > this has changed recently, then after midnight PDT today, all the PROCS > will just abort with: > > "Please replace your PROC with a BASIC program as PROCS are no longer > supported." > > Given this, you may wish to look at buying my PROC to BASIC conversion > system, which is charged out at a rate of $250 per proc or $1 per line; > well, I have to make a living somehow guys. > > Some systems may have escaped this disable flag with the loading of > various patches or if in fact you were too lazy to upgrade anything and > so did not get the patches, which were released after jBASE 3.1.4.2009. > Fortunately, there is an easy way to determine whether your procs will > stop working or not. All you need do is run this jBC program, which has > the advantage of not needing a PROC to determine failure or not, but > relies on a quirk of the jBC compiler and runtime: > > AP="76,79,79,70,32,76,73,82,80,65" > procStep=1 > LOOP > C = FIELD(AP, ",", procStep++) > WHILE C # "" DO > CRT CHAR(C): > REPEAT > CRT > > If this program runs and does not print anything, then your PROCS will > be disabled at midnight tonight. If you see a string output, then your > procs will be fine, but the message given is in reverse polish > instructions, which you can manually decode. > > Hope this helps, > > Jim --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
