Re: license and user count

In article <5mh3jg$ap3$1@gulfa.kuwait.net>, Rudy Fernandes <rferdy@kuwait.net> writes >In article <ekryVHA6heizEwke@smooth1.demon.co.uk>, > David Williams <djw@smooth1.demon.co.uk> wrote: ><SNIP> > >>>What about printing? In our OLTP environment, most of our front-office >>>apps print 2 or 3 documents at the end of an entry. The printing is >>>done using RUN WITHOUT WAITING. So, from 2 connnections which my >>>user has, every now and then, s/he's jumping to 5. >>> >> Surely you can do >> >> let unix_command = "lp -d ",printer," ",report_file >> run unix_command without waiting. >> >> i.e. no extra connections are required and you can still use run >> without waiting to handle the actual printing i.e. the slow part.. >> > >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... >----------------------- >Rudy Fernandes >GIC, Kuwait >OL 7.20UC4, 4GL 6.04UC1 >----------------------- -- David Williams