Re: I4GL 6.0x to 7.2x Migration (was: Re: Informix stock [Serious response])

In article <357168B1.729E@earthlink.net>, Jonathan Leffler <jleffler@earthlink.net> wrote: >Any pure I4GL application should recompile without problems, >and apart from behaviour based on 2-digits years (which would change >if you set the DBCENTURY environment vasriable and/or set the system >clock to later than 1999-12-31) and bug fixes, it should all be the >same as before apart from fixed bugs. > Speaking of which, has anyone ELSE seen a bizarre problem in 7.20 4GL such that printing DATEs in a report with just some of the fields, e.g. print ..., r.dateval using "mm/yy", ... OCCASIONALLY (~10% of the time) results in the full 10-character-wide date string being printed, e.g. 123 12/98 456 Row 3 124 03/98 452 Row 4 125 12/96 458 Row 5 126 12/12/1998 459 Row 6 127 12/98 451 Row 7 I ran into this on the Solaris 7.20 release, but I couldn't narrow it down... -- Alan Denney yosemite_at_netcom.com