CHIASSA@UDEM.BITNET (Alyre CHIASSON) (04/04/89)
My knowledge of dBMAN 5 extends to only a few days but there appears to be a bug in the INPUT <PROMPT> TO <VAR> command. It truncates decimal numbers to intergers. This would appear to be a bug to me as they give "price" as a <VAR> in one of their sample problems. Any ideas? The GET command will get around this but it is not as convient in certain cases. Also I would really like to known how to get out of Err30, "Too many suspended program files". The manual says use <ResumePrg> or <KillPrg>. I have been unable to find any program with the prefix "Resume" or "Kill". I would really appreciate a solution as up until now I've been rebooting....not a great way to debug a program. Many thanks
root@yale.UUCP (Celray Stalk) (04/04/89)
In article <ID4654.D890403.T171227.CHIASSA@UDEM> CHIASSA@UDEM.BITNET (Alyre CHIASSON) writes: > > My knowledge of dBMAN 5 extends to only a few days but there > appears to be a bug in the INPUT <PROMPT> TO <VAR> command. It > truncates decimal numbers to intergers. This would appear to be a > bug to me as they give "price" as a <VAR> in one of their sample > problems. Any ideas? I tried this and found the same thing. If you add a "PICTURE" clause to the command, you are even prompted for the fractional part, but still the result is truncated to an integer. It sure looks like a bug. > Also I would really like to known how to get out of Err30, "Too > many suspended program files". The manual says use <ResumePrg> or > <KillPrg>. I have been unable to find any program with the prefix > "Resume" or "Kill". <ResumePrg> and <KillPrg> are generic names for keys. On the ST, they are Control-R and Control-K respective. See page 61 of the Supplemental Manual that comes with dBMAN V. ================================================== | Michael Fischer | | Arpanet: <fischer-michael@cs.yale.edu> | | Bitnet: <fischer-michael@yalecs.bitnet> | | UUCP: <fischer-michael@yale.UUCP> | ==================================================