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>} Subject: Hyperscript Tools
>} Date: Thu, 30 Sep 1993 14:23:37 GMT
>}
>} HI!
>} I am Clue-LESS about Informix's Hyperscript Tools, I am now evaluating this
>} software...I thought that I installed it correctly, but when I try to
>} run the 'scripts' that are in the examples directory, I ALWAYS get the
>} error message < Error: missing ')' > during the execution of the example
>} scripts.
>} The code *seems* to look okay...???
>} --------------
>} Does anyone know why this is happening?
>} Thanks for any input on this problem of mine (one o' the many!).
>That's about what we got out of it too. We kinda maybe think that it's
>a problem with our INET not hooking up properly, though we can't
>explain that either. Also our machine has only 8MB TOTAL, and Informix
>mentions that they want 8MB FREE, so we may be hitting a memory thing
>-- although I don't think so, out of memory is usually much more
>dramatic.
>Does your version take an eternity to start up too?
>Will
I queried an internal email alias, and am including a couple of the
responses. Hope it helps!
Cheers,
David
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> Just a helpful hint for anyone out there who may be receiving valid
> SQL errors from the engine, but error text that reads
> Missing ')'
> This is most likely happening because:
> * the only Informix products the customer has installed on the PC are
> I-NET PC and HST (and/or I-DBA/ViewPoint).
> * the installation guide (page 12 for HST, page 9 for VP) states:
> "To display text instead of numbers when you encounter an SQL error
> message, copy the files in the PRODUCT\MSG directory on the
> installation media to your INFORMIXDIR\MSG directory. These files
> contain the error message for ESQL Runtime, version 4.1. If these
> files are not copied, SQL error messages display
> instead of display the message text."
> We have had customers report that anytime they receive an SQL error
> number, it is always accompanied by the Missing ')' text, such as:
> -931: Missing ')'
> -457: Missing ')'
> -276: Missing ')'
> Jane Heeney
> Technical Support
> The numeric error message can be replaced with the text label. Just copy the
> msg directory from the hstools directory to your INFORMIXDIR directory. This
> is symptomatic of installing only NET-PC (no MSG directory.)
> That solved, he's still got a problem, he's probably right that NET-PC
> isn't getting to the database. The error implies no connection (no cursor.)
> Also, keep watching this alias, Jane Heeney posted the MSG fix here about
> two weeks ago (turn around jump shot to Jane.)
> The slow startup is fairly typical of low memory machines (really, 8Mb isn't
> a lot for Windows...honest) comparing identical 486 boxes, one with 8Mb and
> the other with 16Mb, the greater memory more than double the performance.
> This is - amongst other things - due to the poor context switching and
> paging in Windows, sow...having enough real memory encouraging Windows to
> avoid swapping out to disk. The threshold is somewhere around 12 or 16 Mb.
> Regards
> Adam Green
> Federal Office - Canberra, Australia.
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