Re: Connect support in 4GL??

At 12:30 PM 7/7/95 -0700, Jonathan Leffler wrote: [clipped] >>Jonathon, can you shed some light on this for me? > >Was I summonsed? If so, my name is not spelt thusly... A thousand apologies....spelling was never one of stronger points.... >There is no direct support for CONNECT, DISCONNECT or SET CONNECTION in >version 6.0x I4GL, nor are there any plans for it to be supported. Any idea why there is no planned support? >However, one of the components of the I4GL compilation system is the 6.0x >ESQL/C compiler, and it does understand CONNECT et al, and therefore you >can write I4GL-callable ESQL/C functions to handle the connections for you. >You can compile these with the c4gl script and build them into a general >purpose library and link them into programs as required. > >Note that the CONNECT, DISCONNECT and SET CONNECTION statements are not >preparable, so the normal ruse of doing PREPARE and EXECUTE will not work. Thank you for the suggestion. Jon >Also note that CONNECT et al were introduced in Version 6.00 and are >therefore available in all later versions too. > >Yours, >Jonathan Leffler (johnl@informix.com) #include <disclaimer.h> > > ================================================================== Jon Vemo Internet: jvemo@cyberspace.com Bothell, WA USA ------------------------------------------------------------------ Watch out for road-kill on the information superhighway....SPLAT!! ==================================================================