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From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Clipper 5.01 error message
Keywords: Clipper Arghhhh
Message-ID: <1991May17.215929.18795@pegasus.com>
Date: 17 May 91 21:59:29 GMT
References: <1991May13.223912.1975@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> <1991May15.110418.5031@anomaly.sbs.com>
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In article <1991May15.110418.5031@anomaly.sbs.com> mpd@anomaly.sbs.com (Michael P. Deignan) writes:
>mhovan@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Mike Hovan) writes:
>
>>	Nantucket may have fixed the virtual memory problems from 
>>version 5.0 but they have added/revealed static memory problems with the
>>latest release.
>
>Yes! Very much so!
>
>Remember those "5553: Internal Error" messages? I'm hitting those now too,
>at completely random points.
>
That application that you sold me is blowing up with random "variable not
found" errors...

Notice how easy it is to lie ?

There is only one question I really need answered and if you can possibly do
it seriously I would appreciate it.  Why don't I get the same errors ?  Why
don't thousands of others get the same errors ?

There could be many reasons for you getting these errors (including the
possibility of bugs in 5.01) but there are plenty of others.  You could be
using an older copy of Blinker or Warplink that doesn't support 5.01.  You
could be linking in routines from Funcky or 3PX or any of two dozen other
function libraries (Netlib perhaps ?) that hasn't been updated to 5.01 yet.

You could be referencing your own C or assembler routine and could be messing
with registers, you could have old S'87 code in a library along the path that
is getting linked in.

So the question remains why is it that so few people I know are having problems
and the majority that do find that they in fact misunderstood the way that
STATIC variables or codeblocks operate and report success as soon as they
make the adjustment ?

If I were to post the names of 100 satisfied Clipper developers would that
change your mind ?  200 names ?  At what point will you accept the likelihood
that you are mistaken ?  I'll tell you when Nantucket will... the moment that
you isolate the problem into a reasonable amount of code and submit it to
them as a bug.

I realize that you feel the business world in general and Nantucket in
particular has nothing better to do than foul up your life but some people
think Elvis is alive too...

tom