Re: Help! Odd, irreproducible happenings.

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1998


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 17733
interpreted = N
texte = Michael Winston changed the universe:> Every so often, the first 8 digits of the credit card number are appended > to the EMAIL and SHIPTOEMAIL headers...> On a similar note, the [REPLACE] command sometimes puts info in the wrong > field....> These happenings have occured with Web* 2 and 3, many verions of WebCat > (back to 2.1), with and without plugins such as FireSite, Nitro, BIAP, > etc., and at all times of the day. > > ...Any ideas or theories would be greatly appreciated! Ok, I have a theory... ;-) It could be the problem with opening and closing files on the Mac - which is discussed right now on the WebTen list. Tenon does not have a solution yet and I believe, these kind of behavior is not related to WebTen alone but to the Mac itself. Under WebTen the logfiles sometimes show some HTML text for example. This looks similar to your problem - parts of text are going into the wrong file or application. Perhaps the MacOS is too slow when setting a file to the closed status. Or it doesn't tell running applications about the right status at the right time. Or the Mac wants to be very fast and tries to do two things simultaneous. Or something else. My idea comes from a rather new command in 4th Dimension: IDLE. Whenever you put IDLE at critical points in your code, then 4D waits for free processor time and everything runs fine. Are our programs already too fast for our machines? Or do we run too many applications on one machine because it is so easy? I suspect we have to learn a lot in the near future, playing-time goes by...But to come back to your problem: If my above theory is somehow right - close databases with [CloseDatabase] before writing to them. That will reduce performance slightly but could give you some control over cpu-behavior. Or try to collect all your data and write it to a file (which you send afterwards) instead of constructing an email on the fly. Peter __________________________________________ Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Help! Odd, irreproducible happenings. (Peter Ostry 1998)
  2. Help! Odd, irreproducible happenings. (Michael Winston 1998)
Michael Winston changed the universe:> Every so often, the first 8 digits of the credit card number are appended > to the EMAIL and SHIPTOEMAIL headers...> On a similar note, the [replace] command sometimes puts info in the wrong > field....> These happenings have occured with Web* 2 and 3, many verions of WebCat > (back to 2.1), with and without plugins such as FireSite, Nitro, BIAP, > etc., and at all times of the day. > > ...Any ideas or theories would be greatly appreciated! Ok, I have a theory... ;-) It could be the problem with opening and closing files on the Mac - which is discussed right now on the WebTen list. Tenon does not have a solution yet and I believe, these kind of behavior is not related to WebTen alone but to the Mac itself. Under WebTen the logfiles sometimes show some HTML text for example. This looks similar to your problem - parts of text are going into the wrong file or application. Perhaps the MacOS is too slow when setting a file to the closed status. Or it doesn't tell running applications about the right status at the right time. Or the Mac wants to be very fast and tries to do two things simultaneous. Or something else. My idea comes from a rather new command in 4th Dimension: IDLE. Whenever you put IDLE at critical points in your code, then 4D waits for free processor time and everything runs fine. Are our programs already too fast for our machines? Or do we run too many applications on one machine because it is so easy? I suspect we have to learn a lot in the near future, playing-time goes by...But to come back to your problem: If my above theory is somehow right - close databases with [closedatabase] before writing to them. That will reduce performance slightly but could give you some control over cpu-behavior. Or try to collect all your data and write it to a file (which you send afterwards) instead of constructing an email on the fly. Peter __________________________________________ Peter Ostry - po@ostry.com - www.ostry.com Ostry & Partner - Ostry Internet Solutions Auhofstrasse 29 A-1130 Vienna Austria fon ++43-1-8777454 fax ++43-1-8777454-21 Peter Ostry

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