Re: license and user count

In article <4kL7VDA+GejzEwJJ@smooth1.demon.co.uk>, David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote: >In article <5mh3jg$ap3$1@gulfa.kuwait.net>, Rudy Fernandes ><rferdy@kuwait.net> writes <snip> >>I meant the report-creating 4gls which we usually RUN (with arguments) >>rather than CALL (so that our data-entry 4gis are less bloated). >> > > So how do you return error messages to the users? > > Not via the database because you could lose your connection/online be > down...Not via the screen since another program is using that... > We dont (though I seem to recall that the ERROR statement works!). In practise, while we almost always RUN our online report-creating 4gls (invoice, policy printing), we use RUN WITHOUT WAITING in only one particular, heavily-used, entry program where the 4 to 12 seconds saved are really valuable. Ignoring error-handling may seem unwise, but the practical sit. suggests that its OK - we haven't had a related problem in the 2 years we have been using it. Meanwhile, local Informix Support seems to think that this process of RUNning rather than CALLing will not lead to my incarceration :). But, they are confirming with the UK office. ---------------------- Rudy Fernandes GIC, Kuwait OL 7.20, 4Gl 6.04 ----------------------