Do both UV UD behave exactly the same in this regard?
How about D3 the other MV-related systems?
cds
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X = '1'
Y = '1 ';* note the trailing space character
X = Y is true
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the language is rich. We should be able to express ourselves without
using obviously offensive words.
- Chuck chuck-bo-buck Banana-fana-fo-Charlie Stevenson
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Yes it
does, albeit syntax is different.
2
ways:
LIST.UNION combines
savedlists
GET.LIST LIST-A TO 1
10
record(s) selected to SELECT list #1.
GET.LIST LIST-B TO 2
10
record(s) selected to SELECT list #2.
MERGE.LIST 1 UNION 2
19
record(s) selected to SELECT list
From: Dawn M. Wolthuis
I'm looking for information related to companies that moved
or attempted to move from applications based on MV to Oracle
or other relational databases and went belly up in the process.
I don't know that this is so much a MV-to-Other conversion phenomenon as a general
Are you asking how or if it is a good idea?
If asking How: Disable logins in /etc/profile or if you are more
comfortable working in universe disable getting into uv in the uv home
directory's VOC UV.LOGIN add somethiong like this bit of code to the
top of the paragraph:
PA
BREAK OFF
IF
Karl,
Short answer: $OPTIONS TIME.MILLISECOND affects TIME() SYSTEM(12).
We are on HP UX also when upgrading from 9.6 TO 10.0.x we blindly
inserted
$OPTIONS TIME.MILLISECOND at top of all programs so they would function
as before.
Archives are at http://www.indexinfocus.com/ but I couldn't
This one interests me, since we also had trouble with FMT at 10.0.12
.16
We are running 10.0.16 and the L10 v. 10#L problem shows up there
exactly as you report it, in both PICK IDEAL flavors.
Chuck Stevenson
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I am curious about people's experience:
1. Do your end users like or dislike this case-inverting behavior?
I think most dislike it.
2. How about programmers and techies?
3. Do you let users configure it for themselves?
By the way, Stuart meant paragraph, not phrase.
Line 1 would
Andre,
Be careful when looking at ANALYZE.FILE for dynamic files.
The load modulo don't translate well for static files because of
large records.
The DUM example below is a dynamic file with 7 large records in it.
The 7 ids pointers to the corresponding data's residence in OVER.30
easily
This one ought to go into the FAQ
The following CONVERT statement does work,
CONVERT TO amp; IN LINE
Does anyone know what's happening here?
Well, I'm still proud of my little example when the question was raised
in April:
CDS.BP C
01 X = 'How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, if
Please let me deflect this thread before it degenerates into a GOTO war.
Which would you suppose is much faster:
1: T0=TIME()
FOR I = 1 TO 100
EXECUTE 'SELECT VOC WITH TYPE = V COUNT.SUP'
LOOP WHILE READNEXT ID
NULL ;* GOSUB DO.STUFF
REPEAT
It is my understanding that UniData (at least...don't know
about UniVerse) cache's the SELECT in Method 1. You can see
this from ECL by timing a huge select, then CLEARSELECT, then
re-issue the original select. The second run will come back
much quicker.
Caching can be controlled for.
Looks like someone has too much time on their hands today
Actually, the question grows out of a real need for a phantom to
repeatedly loop through a file all day long. My problem is that the
phantom does not have too much time. I thought the repeated overhead
associated with executing a SELECT
Do anyone having experience on Universe Database hang.
( note that existing user process still able to run the
process and access the database only user which using new
session log to the database will hang over there ?
) The system file is not full . When i LIST.READU EVERY
(using
of gratitude. I dug the following from the list
archive, http://www.indexinfocus.com/.
Until the manual is updated, I hope this documentation is good enough:
Subject: [UV] SYSTEM(9001) tells you what program you are in where you
came from!
From:Stevenson, Charles ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date
I do something similar on UV starting with
`cat /.uvhome`/bin/uvlictool report_lic
instead of UD's:
/usr/ud60/bin/listuser
(A question about uvlictool came up in the Universe Database Hang
thread this week.)
-Original Message-
From: Bill Pizer
I have this running every 60
Uni_VERSE_ I-types are probably best explained in the
Uni_DATA_ manual.
They have a much better introduction if you are new to the topic and it
is mostly applicable to UV.
The UD manual (can't remember which) probably calls them Virtual
Attributes or V-items. Start there, then check the UV
OK. Can't figure out how to execute the change function
inside an I-desc.
I'm trying to do: CHANGE(@ID,X,(X))
I wrote catalogued:
UTIL.BP CHANGE
01: FUNCTION CHANGE( EXPRESSION, SUBSTRING, REPLACEMENT, OCCURRENCE,
BEGIN )
02: RETURN ( CHANGE( EXPRESSION, SUBSTRING, REPLACEMENT,
From: Mark Johnson
Not for nothin' but there are some pretty ugly I-type dict
items with all the SUBS, EQS, REUSE etc stuff.
Before I disagree with some points, let me concur that I-types'
MV-handling can be ugly.
Although Prime traded the ugly correlative syntax for the inherent
simplicity
What Brian Leach said. I wrote a MAKE.LIST verb that creates an active
select list from the contents of the command line. (I think some
versions of Pick have that, maybe by a different name. Can't remember.)
The program loads a dynamic array from Brian's Get(ARG.)s, then does
FORMLIST. The
Oh, joy. It's a stupidity that Prime gave us, Vmark preserved.
(don't know about UD.)
A line that begins with a * is a comment - if it also has a space in
it somwhere after the *..
A line that begins with a * and has no spaces after the * is treated
like a globally catalogued program.
Note,
@DATA.PENDING is attribute-mark-delimited string holding the data stack.
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Karl,
I'm confused about your removing the hidden .Type30 files:
Here's some detail on the files as they currently exist (I
removed .Type30 from each file to save space):
BOHDR:
-rwxrwxrwx 1 vsifax staff 761856 Jul 19 12:21 DATA.30
-rwxrwxrwx 1 vsifax staff 468992 Jul 19
From: Karl L Pearson
I really didn't remove the .Type30 files from disk, only the
email. That would have been pretty daft of me...
speaking of daft, the joke's on me!
I thought maybe we were swinging at a moving target.
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UV10 STILL DOES NOT UPDATE INDEXES if the index is part of the ID.
From: Norman, David (SAAS)
In UV9.4 CNAME didn't update secondary indexes, which left a bit of
a mess behind. This has now been fixed, probably from 9.6.
Example. A 2-part id: [internal-date]*[something] indexed on date (
fair 'nuff
I once wrote a general purpose LOCATESUB that made LOCATE functionality
available to I-descriptors so I wouldn't have to write a separate
subroutine each time I needed it.
In retrospect, it was overkill. Altho I generally like the technique of
reusable general utility subroutines, I
UV's standard pdf doc set has translog.pdf.
Chapter 8 is Universe commands.
Userref.pdf has descriptions of TCL commands, including txlg cmds.
Look in UV home directory at the motif menus and follow the paths to
see the commands that tx logging submenus execute.
Look at the verbs in the VOC and
IBM could help us here by writing a backward link in the I_INDEX.MAP
that says where the primary file is that the index supposedly
references. If there is a mismatch, error out.
Is there a situation where the current state, where more than one
primary files could point to the same index is a
(Lurking Newbies:
I hope you are reading this thread. This can sting you really HARD!, as
Martin Phillips cites at the bottom. (meaning the bottom of this post
being where MP's comments are, not where you'll get stung. Well,
maybe...)
The issue is this: the path to the index is
The way I really hoped would be implemented was to have the index
files exist within the file subdirectory, i.e. all files with
indexes
would be similar in structure to Type30, but have a .index
subdirectory within them. So, from then on, the indexes would be
tied to the main data
Time to move the acronym discussion to u2-community?
To be an Acronym it must be pronounceable as a word,
Otherwise it's an abbreviation.
TLA, pronounced tee-ell-eh is a Three Letter Abbreviation.
pronounced 'tla ( hard for English speakers - do any
Indo-European languages start words
LeRoy,
Are we going to be able to get it at the IBM DB2 Information Management
Technical Conference?
Karjala
Isn't there a pre-conference seminar on the topic, too ? ? ?
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Thank-you! I couldn't remember or find it for some reason.
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Try using the RECORDLOCKED function...
Locked = RECORDLOCKED( file.variable, record.ID )
It will return you a value indicating
On UV, I would compile it with the -X option and then look at the
cross-reference map.
BASIC BP PGM -X
ED BP.L PGM
---: F Xspace
That would show all lines where variable X is referenced, assigned,
etc.
I think you have something similar in UD.
cds
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From: [EMAIL
I posted the following on the U2Ug.org Enhancements Forum:
__
[UV] Let UniAdmin's Performance Monitor capture to a file
(UniData may already have this feature?)
Rather than just catch realtime data on a screen, I'd like to be able to
capture it to a file
It was a UD question, but for those interested in UV try SYSTEM(9001):
OBJPATH = SYSTEM(9001)1,2
PGMNAME = OBJPATH[ '/', DCOUNT(OBJPATH,'/'), 1 ]
or alternate syntax:
PGMNAME = FIELD( OBJPATH, '/', DCOUNT(OBJPATH,'/'), 1 )
Forward shash assumes Unix. It also assumes you don't have
If I understand your problem, you can use INSERT exactly as you would
with dynamic arrays:
INS newValue1 BEFORE FLD(1)1,VMC
INS newValue2 BEFORE FLD(2)1,VMC
INS newValue3 BEFORE FLD(3)1,VMC
etc.
Heck, it is *possible* to INS *attributes*, not just values or
subvalues:
INS
I've been out sick for a month and am jumping into the middle of this
thread.
I gather that someone wants to maintain an index on a TRANS() result,
but is frustrated by UV or UD's failure to maintain the index.
Here is a good workaround using my own verb, XSELECT, first implimented
when we were a
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Charles
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 12:44 PM
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Subject: RE: [U2] Index problem
[snip]
Then 2 steps at TCL or pararaph:
SELECT ORD.HDR WITH CUST.NAME = XYZ ABC etc
From: Doyen Klein
I found the manual for uv on IBM site
(http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/25119270.pdf)
Any where I can find ...
1. a more detailed internals description of processor mode and
dispatch type?
Not that I know of. Just the whole VOC section (chapter 3) in the
System
For the first day after a reboot, our Universe application seems to be
extraordinarily slow; dramatically slower than what I've seen on other
systems, and maybe worse than how this system used to be after reboots
(subjective assessment).
For several hours after reboot users weep and gnash their
Barry,
On UV10.0.16, HPUX11i, I get a reasonable distribution:
0001: DIM DISTRIB(10) ; MAT DISTRIB = 0
0002: FOR I = 1 TO 99
0003: THIS.NUM = RND(370570)
0004: DISTRIB( 1+ INT( THIS.NUM/37057 ) )+= 1
0005: NEXT
0006: FOR I = 1 TO 10
0007: CRT
One can also create an I-descriptor that returns a true/false (then
SELECT ... WITH XYZ.FLAG ... ). Buried in the I-descriptor can be
explicit control (via IF,AND,OR, parenthases) of whether or not you do
certain expensive tests depending on results of cheaper tests.
You can also apply
Yeah, and get rid of Type1 for dirs in uvhome while you're at it
(catdir, APP.PROGS, BP, INCLUDE, etc.).
And default file types for SAVEDLISTS, PH, COMO, HOLD should be
Type19 when they get created, too.
The rabble has been 'roused.
cds
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
, November 10, 2004 12:31 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [U2] UV slow after reboot
Stevenson, Charles wrote:
For several hours after reboot users weep and gnash their teeth over
the slowness . By the end of a normal workday things seem to be back
to normal. I *think* the performance
it was probably the programs themselves being cached.
-Original Message-
From: Stevenson, Charles
For the first day after a reboot, our Universe application seems to be
extraordinarily slow;
[snip]
Has anyone else seen this sort of thing? I'm fishing for ideas here.
The only thing I can
Rod,
Try SET.INDEX.
The path to the index dir is buried in the header of the data file.
SET.INDEX will let you change that.
cds
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From: Rod Hills
Is their a way to copy a data/index files and not have to rebuild the
index.
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Verbing weirds nouns. (William Safire quote, I think??)
CDS
P.S. Nouning weirds verbs, too.
-
I think it was AT T who architected unix.
(I checked at dictionary.com, No entry found for architected)
Yes, but according to this link there are about 209,000 references
Bill,
You're forgiven - but just cuz it's Thanksgiving tomorrow.
Chuck Stevenson, old primate
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From: Bill H.
Goes to show ya...coming from a Pick background I see nothing wrong with
the results. :-)
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From: Womack, Adrian
Phantoms under PI/Open would execute the ON.EXIT paragraph when
exiting.
what does UD do?
It's pretty annoying that UniVerse doesn't do the same thing (IMO it
should).
Agreed.
Knowledgebase G21418 mentioned by Clif Oliver has been open since
9/4/97, UV 9.3.
For more
New uvconfig parameters can control optional behaviour if a proposed
enhancement would affect backward compatibility. That leaves it to user
to decide which compatibility he wants, PI or older UV.
Thanks, Uffe, for the QUIT paragraph tip. Makes sense. That
workaround/resolution is not
From: Dave Schexnayder
Sent: Friday, December 10, 2004 9:13 AM
1) Resizing. When we asked IBM about resizing, their answer was
FAST. However, I am not impressed with the product nor the
expense, are there any alternatives?
1st, I hope you understand and use dynamic hashed files (type-30
TRUE = (1 EQ 1) ;* If not otherwise defined
FALSE = NOT(TRUE) ;* If not otherwise defined
Just use @TRUE and @FALSE variables U2 already gives us.
VLIST of example in Universe:
1: IF @TRUE THEN CRT 'YES'
1 0 : 2DE testfw 1 E:
1 8 : 046 crtcrlf
Richard,
Besides the 7 character name limit, here's another scenario that would
cause grief. Don't know if it applies to you. It has nothing
particularly to do with VB.
Consider a single session that LOGTOs different accounts:
1. VBNOTEPAGE3 successfully runs in account A. common is
Wendy,
(can't believe no response posted yet.)
Cn,Prompt Text will take nth word from command line. Similar to
GET(ARG.) in basic.
In,Prompt Text will take nth word from command line, but if none
supplied, will prompt user.
[control,]prompt text[,options] is general syntax.
P,R,A, s are
Andrea,
This is a known conversion issue.
I don't think there is a workaround other than to write your own TRANS
function replacement. (If you do, be sure to mimic some of the
efficient caching of already-read records that TRANS does.) If IBM
wanted to, a new UVCONFIG option could be a way
From: Mats Carlid
What's wrong with
FUNCTION ATRANS( F,K,P,X )
RETURN (RAISE(TRANS(F,K,P,X))
END
?
--
looks good, except how about something like:
FUNCTION ATRANS( F,K,P,X )
REMOVE DUM FROM K SETTING MORE ; check for any delimiters
K = K ; * reset rmv ptr in case
YES! You do need the K=K.
Well, either that or
SETREM 0 ON K
That's better. More explicit.
OK, I admit it: I do K=K cuz of 10 yr old PI habits that won't die. PI
didn't have SETREM.
It is important to reset the remove pointer just in case some future
calling program, over which the
Shawn,
In your mystery, PTD.POSITION.ID references the _e_n_t_i_r_e_ 75th
attribute. It is a dynamic array. It may (or may not) contain value
marks. PTD.POSITION.ID[5,5] does a substring extraction, the 5th thru
9th characters of the array, regardless of where or whether there are
any value
-Original Message-
From: Ray Wurlod
Subject: RE: [U2] [UD] i-desc mystery
Does UniData have the same MV handling functions as UniVerse?
The OP specified [UD] in the subject line.
I just watched The Fog of War video of Robert MacNamara's (US
Secretary of Defense in 1960s)
Lastly, if you use the REMOVE function within your code,
instead of resetting the pointer, just use a temporary
variable so that the position of the pointer in the passed
in argument is both irrelevant and unchanged. That way
you don't inadvertantly affect a piece of code that's
working
From: Susan Joslyn
[snip] Gordon, I would think that you could address it with file
triggers... any reason why you can't?
triggers wont work on type 19 files.
Programs have to be type 19 files.
Can PRC work around that one?
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TCL verb: RECORD [[DICT] filename [record]]
displays the group the record ID hashed to and indicates whether the
record
was found in the file.
PI had a subroutine called !HASH.ID (if I recall correctly).
I wish we had the same. I used to use it in my own verb I called
PREHASH that would take
I wrote these examples up for our own programmers.
Might as well share them with the group for the newbies' sakes.
__
Suppose X always contains the string
'AB-CD-EF-GH'
for each of the following examples:
Substring extractions:
Y = X[3]-- Y = '-GH'
Thank-you, Tom. I was hoping someone would be kind enough to speak up
about Unidata.
Does UD (as does UV) support these alternate syntaxes?:
[]-Syntax. Alternate
Y = X[c,m,n]Y = FIELD( X, c,n,m )
X[c,m,n] = substringX =
1. T30FILE.
If your MFILES was set to the default, 12, then chances are T30FILE also
needs to be tweaked, given that you have so many dynamic files. I
assume you compared the old DG uvconfig to the new Linux one and can
account for the differences.
2. DISABLE-, BUILD.INDEX.
Try disabling
1. T30FILE.
If your MFILES was set to the default, 12, then chances are T30FILE also
needs to be tweaked, given that you have so many dynamic files. I
assume you compared the old DG uvconfig to the new Linux one and can
account for the differences.
--
My MFILES increase was an 'educated guess'.
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I may soon become a fan of static files if this kind of thing keeps up.
Here is the output that you are referring to.
Dynamic Files:
Slot # Inode Device Ref Count Htype Split Merge Curmod Basemod
Largerec Filesp Selects Nextsplit
01900545 59425
Now THIS is getting interesting!
I saw something similar twice. Once a hashed file header was corrupted
with a line that should have been written into a como file. Another
when a file had data from uv/SYS.MESSAGE written in it. Both occurred
in the context of a transaction logging failure. I've
Marco,
I assume you've contacted the vendor(s) by now?
It sounds like a question for IBM support.
Since you have no source code, application support, too.
If when you get an answer, please post it here.
Thanks,
cds
-Original Message-
From: Marco Manyevere
I get the error message
Really?! Yuck. I never knew that. That's just plain mean.
2nd good candidate today for www.u2ug.org forums enhancements.
I tried the 'EVAL @RECORDn', but can't seem to get it to work.
I've always had to resort to referencing the DICT ID for that loc,
and
we're using UD. Is there an
inefficient compared to what?
And Inefficient measured how?
And is said Efficiency necessarily the significant software quality
attribute when up against competing attributes such as Maintainability,
Reusability, Robustness.
Of course, there's no single right answer. I'm just being curmudgeonly.
Some comments interspersed for those not comfortable with virtual
fields. The primary context here is UD, but I note some differences
between UV UD. Then an example.
cds
From: Anthony W. Youngman
Certainly I would recommend never pointing a virtual field
and the moral of the story is: a Source Control System is very good
idea.
On a more helpful note, the bottom of the program object file contains,
in ascii, the path to the source (unless compiled with -T option).
Cataloging moves that binary file to uv/catdir. So you can reverse
engineer that
Have any of you every seen or heard of a utility that would
take a Pick program and identify what programs were called
by that program and continue to transverse down those
programs until all programs were identified?
SoftWhere, Toledo Assoc. Thorough, excellent product. Cheaply
priced.
I've found emperically
kill -4 [pid]
*seems* to nicely kill uv pocesses, but I'm not sure why.
Sometimes I have to repeat the command several times before success.
I kinda assumed MASTER OFF must do a kill -4, but have nothing to back
that up, just that UV processes seem to disappear
And, just for the record, you can also stack as many commands as you
wish like this:
COMMANDS = 'SELECT FILE'
COMMANDS-1 = 'PROGRAM2RUN'
EXECUTE COMMANDS [ append optional parameters here ]
[snip]
Generally I prefer this syntax
EXECUTE SELECT FILE,//IN. PROGRAM2RUN
[snip]
EXECUTE SELECT
but with that syntax, wont PROGRAM2RUN execute regardless of whether
or not the SELECT returns results?
Yes. Like I said, it was for the record.
I've deleted the original post, but I think the question was about this
syntax sometimes failing:
CLEARDATA
DATA 'PROGRAM2RUN'
EXECUTE
Generally speaking, you've got it right, John.
A few caveats, notes, gotchas:
- Use EXPLAIN keyword to get RetrieVe to show you what it is going to
do.
- If a field is indexed, and no select list is active when the retrieve
command starts, the index will be applied before any actual select
EXPLAIN is Universe-only, not Unidata. Sorry about that.
It goes anywhere on the RetrieVe command line.
If run from tcl, output is to the screen.
-Original Message-
From: Don Verhagen
Charles,
What is the syntax for the EXPLAIN keyword I don't see it documented
in Unidata (6.X)
I
Bill,
This is an example from Universe. I *think* it works on UniData, too.
Look at lines 1,2, 8,9,10 of the program.
This is a simple example. I use DICT VOC TYPE, because everyone is
probably familiar with it.
ED CDS.BP BILL
15 lines long.
: P
0001: OPEN 'DICT VOC' TO VOC.DCT ELSE
Hear, hear!
I wholeheartedly agree with Ken on code reuse.
Let me add that dictionaries should be under source control. A tool
such as SoftWhere that helps you manage where code is reused is also
valuable. I think shortcomings in these 2 areas are stumbling blocks
that keep people from doing
, March 02, 2005 7:48 AM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: RE: [U2] Using an I descriptor in a UniBasic program
Can you provide any web links for SoftWhere
Thanks
James
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Charles
Sent: 02 March 2005
Speaking of Y2K-related programs, I too wrote one, but it searched the
VLIST of the program. That way I didn't care about spacing, etc.. You
might find that method helpful.
For example, these 4 source lines compile to the same PCODE:
VLIST CDS.BP MARK
1: NBR = NBR 5'0'R
1 0 : 09C
Vincent,
I am not sure why you get a one character answer one way and a full
word the other. I assume that's either in the nature of how your
SQ_CAL_SUB is written called, or from formatting applied differently
in the 2 methods. I think we need more context. Manu Fernandes seems
to be
The relevant code ( I am VERY sure source matches object):
072: BEGIN CASE
073: CASE ANS MATCHES '0N' ANS0
074: IF MITM5,ANS# THEN
075: IF MITM7,ANS# THEN GOSUB 200 ; IF ERR THEN GOTO 15
287: 200:*Subroutine For Password Check.
291: IF MITM7,ANS[1,1] = # THEN
310: IF
In UniData the '.' and '-' will evaluate as numeric.
You might want to check how these would fall through
your logic in UniVerse.
Colin,
But they don't pass MATCHES '0N' test on UD, do they?
In UD (and UV) NUM('.1') is true, as is NUM(-1), but this program does
not test for NUM().
On UD,
Ezhno,
Thank-you for your help. Comments interspersed.
cds
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From: Ezhno Cheveyo
072: BEGIN CASE
073: CASE ANS MATCHES '0N' ANS0
074: IF MITM5,ANS# THEN
075: IF MITM7,ANS# THEN GOSUB 200 ; IF
Anyhow, the LOCATE command on the
-Original Message-
From: Andrew Lakeland
How about writing a mickey mouse program which goes through
the full ASCII char set and see which one passes the logic.
I've tried that several variations on the theme.
For example:
FOR I = 0 TO 255
IF ( 1:CHAR(I) MATCHES '0N') THEN
I wrote:
Ezhno,
Thank-you for your help. Comments interspersed.
cds
I thanked Ezhno but didn't thank Colin and Andrew. That was rude.
Thank-you Colin Andrew, too!
I don't have an answer yet, but thank-you for helping me brainstorm.
Christopher Robin tried to teach it to me
Donnie,
Here's a post from a year ago that I saved for my own reference.
cds
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From: Stevenson, Charles
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 8:32 AM
To: 'u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org'
Subject: [UV] SYSTEM(9001) (was: [U2] SYSTEM(49) on UV)
From: Leroy Dreyfuss
SYSTEM
-Original Message-
From: Jacques G.
There is another possibility. Your non-numeric error could be on
a different line of your code. In Universe, if you have a comment
next to an include
line:
$INCLUDE SOMEINC SOMETHING.EQU ;* Include comment
The Raid debugger will not show the
Could your ANS variable have contained Char(255) ?
A string containing Char(255) won't passes the (ANS MATCHES '0N') test.
If anyone can show me a string containing characters other than the 10
digits that passes that test, I'd be much obliged.
cds
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Stevenson,
Charles
Sent: 08 March 2005 23:26
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: [U2] [UV] non-numeric error after passing (ANS MATCHES '0N'
ANS0)
4 times in recent months line these have generated the a set of 4
runtime
You may be right. I've no experience with unicode stuff, working
strictly in English.
I'm happy believing Piers Angliss's too-long-string theory.
Thanks for the input,
cds
-Original Message-
From: Mats Carlid
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 4:39 AM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
didn't try any combinations/derivatives. I also saw another
post where a very long number passed the test but failed in the array
assignment.
Colin Alfke
-Original Message-
From: Stevenson, Charles
Could your ANS variable have contained Char(255) ?
A string containing Char(255) won't
Bill,
UV same as D3. UD different (from how I read Colin).
UV:
Yes
No
UD:
Yes
Yes
cds
-Original Message-
From: Bill H.
I ran this on D3 (flashed and unflashed).
:bptest $options ext ; ans = str('1',1024) ; if ans matches '0N' then
crt 'Yes' else crt 'No' ; ans =
-Original Message-
From: John Solie
I'm wondering why y'all are using a ...MATCHES 0N...
Usually, I'll use the NUM() function. The code snippet
in one of the first messages in this thread would be:
BEGIN CASE
CASE NUM(ANS) AND ANS 0
more code here
Or is NUM() something
I think we've squeezed enough blood outa this turnip, except for one
niggling little question.
What's with the creeping number of spaces in the subject line in the
various posts?:
Subject:
RE: [U2] [UV] non-numeric error after passing (ANS MATCHES '0N'
ANS0)
RE: [U2] [UV] non-numeric error
Thanks, Mike.
Now I remember why I forgot about it. I'm in Pick-flavor and this thing
seems to just check to see if the routine is in uv/catdir. We have
pick-style cataloguing.
I was thinking !EXIST() would resolve the question following the same
rules as CALL does for finding a subroutine:
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