Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

Wol >In BASIC, *EVERYTHING* is a string (apart from file variables). >Therefore any comparison should be valid. To be more precise, no. UniVerse Basic is a run-time typed language (like PHP) not a string language. So it gets the performance and storage benefits of real types, and coerces betwee

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

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Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

t runs out of memory/disk will it wait forever? Or will it halt the system? "Try again later, answer fuzzy". Will Johnson -Original Message- From: John Hester To: U2 Users List Sent: Tue, May 18, 2010 12:31 pm Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV R

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

In message <321088.49154...@web36901.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Jacques G. writes If your file is opened, then comparing it to an empty string is what will cause an invalid data type error. WHY!!! If the datatypes don't match, then the result of the comparison is FALSE, not INVALID. It is lo

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

>If your file is opened, then comparing it to an empty string is what will >cause an invalid data type error. >WHY!!! >If the datatypes don't match, then the result of the comparison is >FALSE, not INVALID. >It is logically correct to do such a comparison. The result I am looking >for is the

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

In message <536051.22442...@web36905.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, Jacques G. writes Oh - that reminds me of something else I'd call a bug. It might well have been fixed by now (I met it in 9.6) but you couldn't safely use a file variable in an IF statement. Can't remember the details, but it was someth

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

uld have to add more arguments to add more files. Ei from: CALL MYSUB(FILE1, ARGV_IN, ARGV_OUT) to CALL MYSUB(FILE1, FILE2, ARGV_IN, ARGV_OUT) This means each program calling MYSUB has to be modified. - Original Message From: John Hester To: U2 Users List Sent: Tue, May 18, 20

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

>Oh - that reminds me of something else I'd call a bug. It might well have been >fixed by now (I met it in 9.6) but you couldn't safely use a file variable in >an IF statement. Can't remember the details, but it was something like >FVAR = "" >some conditional code >OPEN FILE TO FVAR >more code

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

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Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Anthony W. Youngman Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 7:45 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV In message , John Hester writes I think it's something along those lines, but

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

> Looks like putting a sequential file in a dimensioned array makes it go out and reserve a block of memory the size of the entire file. Doubtful.. I'm guessing under the hood the array will resolve to a series of pointers somewhere down the track, but those pointers will need to be cast to diff

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

ny piece of memory to act as a pointer !! ?? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Hester Sent: 18 May 2010 20:31 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV Reading my own

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

!! ?? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of John Hester Sent: 18 May 2010 20:31 To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV Reading my own response just made me realize what's going o

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 11:42 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV Yes, I see your point. I wonder if the integer gets treated like a string in the first instance. I wonder what the result with FILEVARS<1> would be. -John -Origi

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

hony W. Youngman Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2010 7:45 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV In message , John Hester writes >I think it's something along those lines, but I don't think it's trying >to stick the entire

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

In message , John Hester writes I think it's something along those lines, but I don't think it's trying to stick the entire contents of the file into a variable. What I think OPENSEQ is doing is keeping track of the position where the EOF mark is so it will know when the end of the file is rea

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Marc A Hilbert Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 3:41 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV What happens wif you open to regular variable then pass it over to the array: OPENSEQ .

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

2:33 PM To: 'U2 Users List' Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV Let me see, can it be because you are trying to cram over 4 GB of data into a single cell. Unlike the OPEN statement that just puts the file variable into a variable, the OPENSEQ opens the whole file to th

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

s 11. Layer type is BASIC run machine. Fault occurred in BASIC program PTEST at address 5a. -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Marc A Hilbert Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 3:41 PM To: 'U2 Users List&#

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

de mayo de 2010 16:12 Para: U2 Users List Asunto: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV Yes file system is setup to support +2Gb files. As I mentioned I can open the file using a scalar file variable. Problem happening only with the combination of +2Gb and using array variable. Thanks

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Rajesh Menon Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 1:56 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV Does anyone knows what is happening here: I am trying to open a text file (over 4Gb) using OPENSEQ and

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Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 2:09 PM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV I already tried that. Same Error and the fault occurring at FILEVAR(1) = FV.TEMP line. Thanks, Rajesh -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org] On Behalf Of Dan Goble Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 12:00 PM To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org' Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV You may want to check with your Systems Administrator to be sure your file system is setup to support fi

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

List Subject: Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV Just for giggles... what happens if you... OPENSEQ '/tmp/file.txt' TO FV.TEMP ELSE ... FILEVARS(1) = FV.TEMP ?? -Original Message- From: u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2ug.org [mailto:u2-users-boun...@listserver.u2

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

Abnormal termination of UV Does anyone knows what is happening here: I am trying to open a text file (over 4Gb) using OPENSEQ and storing the file variable into a array as follows: COMMON /MYPROG/ FILEVARS(10) OPENSEQ "/tmp/file.txt" to FILEVARS(1) ELSE ... This operation results abnormal t

Re: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

2:56 PM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV Does anyone knows what is happening here: I am trying to open a text file (over 4Gb) using OPENSEQ and storing the file variable into a array as follows: COMMON /MYPROG/ FILEVARS(10) OPENSEQ "/tmp/file.t

[U2] OPENSEQ and Abnormal termination of UV

Does anyone knows what is happening here: I am trying to open a text file (over 4Gb) using OPENSEQ and storing the file variable into a array as follows: COMMON /MYPROG/ FILEVARS(10) OPENSEQ "/tmp/file.txt" to FILEVARS(1) ELSE ... This operation results abnormal termination with fault type error 1