Re: [U2] What is true

2013-07-30 Thread Kevin King
For me it was more of a concern when there were new players entering the market. As we haven't really seen any new MV platforms in a good long while it seems like this is much less of a concern. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Tony Gravagno <3xk547...@sneakemail.com>wrote: > > From: Wjhonson >

Re: [U2] What is true

2013-07-30 Thread Tony Gravagno
> From: Wjhonson > I saw it here by "KRJ" whoever that is > http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Compare That's Keith Johnson in NZ. What an unusual last name... ;) Ironically, it looks like he recently modified one of your postings to PickWiki too. About the true/false thing, I always use 0

Re: [U2] What is true

2013-07-30 Thread Wjhonson
I saw it here by "KRJ" whoever that is http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Compare -Original Message- From: Kevin King To: U2 Users List Sent: Tue, Jul 30, 2013 6:10 pm Subject: Re: [U2] What is true I picked up that trick from some old code may years ago, and haven't u

Re: [U2] What is true

2013-07-30 Thread Kevin King
I picked up that trick from some old code may years ago, and haven't used it in a while since @TRUE and @FALSE have been available on Unidata and Universe, but you may be seeing some of my old code. As far as I have seen, TRUE is usually 1 on MV platforms, but at the time I started writing that bi

[U2] What is true

2013-07-30 Thread Wjhonson
Are there MV systems, which do not recognize 1 as being TRUE ? I typically EQUATE FALSE TO 0, TRUE TO 1 But today I ran across code where they do this TRUE = (1=1) FALSE = NOT(TRUE) I suppose this works on all possible computer systems, but is it overkill for multi-value ? __

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-30 Thread Bill Haskett
John: That's an interesting thought. We do backups of the application account every night, so I do have the last 10 days object code in a backup (plus the last four months weekly backups). I'll look at this the next time it happens. Thanks, Bill Untitled Page ---

Re: [U2] [UD] BASIC Code Failing

2013-07-30 Thread John Hester
I would also consider the possibility of data corruption at the hardware level. Granted, I would expect that you'd also occasionally find anomalies within your source code and data files if this were the case, but I don't know how your filesystems are set up. If the object code has become corrupt