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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: INFORMIX reportwriter help!
Message-ID: <8245@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jul 88 23:45:11 GMT
References: <329@marob.MASA.COM>
Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery)
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Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh
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As quoted from <329@marob.MASA.COM> by daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond):
+---------------
| Using INFORMIX and its ACE ReportWriter package I am trying to print reports
| which contain floating point values with from 1 to 4 decimal places (e.g. 1.2,
| 1.23, 1.234 or 1.2345). It seems no matter what print picture I use, numbers
| which do not resolve to 4 decimal places are rounded down instead of filled
| with zeros (e.g. 1.5 prints as 1.4999 instead of 1.5000).
+---------------

Which Informix, on which computer?  Informix-SQL and Informix-4GL on an
Altos 1086 does this as well; after hacking at it for a couple of hours I
concluded that there was a bug in the number-formatting routines.  On the
other hand, Informix 3.3 on the same machine gets it right.  (And people
wonder why I prefer "old Informix"?)

DISCLAIMER: (Unless you're employed by Informix Software, you can skip this.)

Yes, O gurus of Informixdom, I have reported this to Altos (from whom the
packages were purchased).  Whether they report it to you or not is another
matter. . . .  Disclaimer provided because of what the then Data Language
Corp. did to me after a comparison of Progress to Accell.  I don't have any
great desire to be b*tched at by Informix's tech gurus.
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Brandon S. Allbery, uunet!marque!ncoast!allbery			DELPHI: ALLBERY
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