Re: HELP ON 4GL ERROR -4518

In article <gburnoreCzszKD.DE2@netcom.com> gburnore@netcom.com "Gary L. Burnore" writes: > Christoph Schiffer (chris@news.csl-gmbh.net) wrote: > > > : we are using 4GL 4.1 on SCO 3.2.4 > : and INFORMIX ONLINE 5.0 > > > : After some hundret lines of printing > : in a Report i got the Error -4518 > : while printing a decimal(16,2) Variable > : with USING "format" > > > : -- here is the code-cut where the Debugger signals the error > > : AFTER GROUP OF e.hozu > : PRINT COLUMN 57," ",vp21 USING "##&.&&" > > > Try this: > > define vp21var char(6) > define using6 char(6) > ... > first page header > let using6 = "##&.&&" > > after group of e.hozu > let vp21var = vp21 using using6 > let vp21var = vp21var > print column 57, " ", vp21var > > Someone found a routine in the pcode runner on the 4GL RDS that tells Informix to clear its internal stack. This string stack is filled by using quoted strings (eg "##&.&&") rather than constants (eg using6) as it correctly pointed out above and also with parameters. This happened to us about 2 years ago and we had to remove all the parameters in our system and also the string constants. We didn't know about informix's routine (and neither did they!) at the time. However I don't know where the routine is and who found it. Demon: if you're reading or searching read this!! Ask Demon if it is possible to search old newsgroup information at 3:30am in the morning when there is very little traffic using some sort of local (at their site) batch job and then send you the particular mailings. This kind of facility may already be available on the NET eg like the listserver facility where you send a request in a standard e-mail and the server sends the reply back to you in a standard e-mail. Please let me know what you find. -- David H Lipschitz email: david@lipdav.demon.co.uk Orbital Decisions: decision support services to bulk shipping companies The opinions are probably those of my company. I own the company If you don't try, you won't know