Re: help with RUN RETURNING

Posted in 1997

Bryan Tonnet — 6 Jan 1997 09:57:52 +1100 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

In <32ccd453.76034431@pubnews.demon.co.uk> nabson@derwent.co.uk (Nick Abson) writes: >Running RDS 6.03 on Solaris 2.5 (recently upgraded from 2.2 on SCO) >I can no longer get any OS commands to return their exit codes to my >applications when using RUN RETURNING - the variable is always null >after the command RETURNs. There is a mention in the release notes >about core dumping when you RUN 4gl apps (I can't reporduce this!), >but nothing else - I'm running UNIX scripts/dbload etc. >Does any one else have this problem? Does any one have a work around? >I don't know what to do! sob. Not on your platform, but I had a similar problem (as well as the core dumps) on a SCO machine. RDS 6.04 solved it. Bryan Tonnet batonnet@zeta.org.au