A client is on combo of Windows & DOS 6.5++. The
startup application files changes, among other things:
SET ZERO ON
SET NULL ' '
after the database has been connected. I've checked, and
no other programs set zero OFF, nor set the null to -0-.
App has been around for many years.
Within the past couple months, all of a sudden forms come
up with -0- in the null fields. We ignored it as just weird.
But then we found that when this happens, all the computed
columns that happened to have a null value in the computation
created null computed values! They caught it when it happened,
called me, and sure enough the ZERO is OFF. And the Null
was set to -0-.
They CLAIM that this seems to happen if they are sitting in
the main menu for a long time. That the null was ' ' before
they sat there, then the next time they did something the null
was -0-. And apparently the zero is now OFF. The rbase.cfg
files have those setings (off and -0-), but the startup file changes
them! I find it real hard to believe that the database settings
at that user's workstation get changed without a program doing
it! Come on, explain this one to me!
Karen
