Re: Help! for informix-sql demo

What you're describing is almost certainly a permission problem, probably caused by installing Informix as the wrong user or with incorrectly set environment variables; or running without some environment variables correctly set. HTH. On 1 Jan 97 at 18:56, Yan Qu wrote: } I got the following error messages when runing "isqldemo": } } "INFORMIX-SQL Demonstration Database Installation Script } Dropping existing stores database .... } Error in line 1 } Near character position 21 } Creating stores database .... } Error in line 1 } ... (more errors like above) } Now copying PERFORM source files .... } Now copying ACE source files .... } " } } After the script, I get in my working directory "stores.dbs" along } with other .sql .ace files etc. But nothing is found in stores.dbs. } I can start "isql" ok, but when I tried to access database stores, I } got error: } } 329: database not found or no system permission } 2: no such file or directory } } If I tried to create my own db, I got the error: } } 330: cannot create database". -- Ciao, Billy I'd be in favour of apathy, but I just couldn't be bothered...