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From: lbrintle@umaxc.weeg.uiowa.edu (Lee Brintle,Advantage,337-5200,3374010)
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Subject: Re: Informix 4GL CONSTRUCT question
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Date: 5 Oct 90 14:28:57 GMT
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From article <1990Oct4.235559.22686@informix.com>, by randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea):
> 
> I would look at the string "p_text3" for weird characters.  A simple C
> function can be compiled into your 4GL program to dump a string into a
> file on the disk:

Uh... the startlog() and errorlog() functions will do the same thing (look
in the Function ``Library'' section) without having to include C code 
(which can be a real bother under RDS, since you have to make your own 
runner).  Also, some implementations of the RDS don't allow you to complile
all C programs (mine is one of them, alas).



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> Randall Rhea                                          Informix Software, Inc
> Senior Programmer/Analyst, MIS                    uunet!pyramid!infmx!randall
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> Randall Rhea                                          Informix Software, Inc
> Senior Programmer/Analyst, MIS                    uunet!pyramid!infmx!randall


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