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From: edg@squid.rtech.com (Ed Goldman)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Question on strange behaviour of ABF in INGRES V5.0/01 (sun.u42/05)
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Date: 11 May 89 14:18:21 GMT
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In article <1104@cantuar.UUCP> paul@cantuar.UUCP (Paul Ashton) writes:
>In the last few weeks I have just started using the rtingres application
>generator abf.  On several occassions I have experienced the following
>problem:
>
>I have recently created a new application and it contains a few frames. 
>When I select go from the application definition window.  An executable
>image is built, with no obvious problems, and then I am prompted for the
>name of a frame to run.  I enter the name of one of my frames, and I am
>told that it is undefined! This happens for all of the frames in the
>application. 
>
>We are running RTI INGRES V5.0/01 (sun.u42/05), on a small network of
>Sun 3s running SunOS 4.0.1.  INGRES/NET is used to access the database
>form the diskless clients.  The above problem occurs on the server and
>on the clients.
>

You are running an old 5.0 release which is *not* compatable with the
4.0 SunOS.  The symptoms you describe are exactly consistent with this.
You'll need 5.0/04a (sun.u42/07).

The root of the problem , I believe, is that sun changed the setjmp()
semantics in 4.0.

-edg-