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Conference iosg::all-in-1_v30

Title:*OLD* ALL-IN-1 (tm) Support Conference
Notice:Closed - See Note 4331.l to move to IOSG::ALL-IN-1
Moderator:IOSG::PYE
Created:Thu Jan 30 1992
Last Modified:Tue Jan 23 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:4343
Total number of notes:18308

1944.0. "Printing from Index with short username." by STKHLM::LUNDSTEDT () Fri Dec 11 1992 11:56

    
    Hello,
    
    I have a customer who's got a random error:
    (v2.4)
    He's got accounts with username consisting of only 1 or 2 letters.
    (This doesn't happen on accounts with longer username!!).
    When these are printing (not always though) from the Index menu they
    receive an message saying that: Too many parameters.
    This could be because a file is created with blanks in the name since 
    the username is so short. He says that this was fixed in an earlier 
    version and came back with 2.4 but this time only from the Index menu.
    I haven't been able to reproduce this myself. 
    Has anybody seen this before and is it different in 3.0??
    
    REGARDS,
    
    /*ANNA*
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1944.1Vague memoryIOSG::WICKSALeft alone in IOSG's rabbit warrenFri Dec 18 1992 12:5614
    Anna,
    
    I do remember seeing this in v2.4 but I thought that it was 'fixed'
    by not allowing you to Create a User with such a short name. Of course
    this would not help users who existed previously.
    
    is there anything in STARS on this? 
    
    Unfortunately I don't have access to a system where I can test this
    so you may have to SPR this unless someone else can try this on v3.0
    
    Regards,
    
    Andrew.D.Wicks
1944.2STKHLM::LUNDSTEDTMon Jan 11 1993 12:2410
    
    Hello again,
    
    He's only getting this error on old accounts not newly created.
    
    We can't see this in 3.0...
    
    Any ideas??
    
    /*ANNA*
1944.3Problem in WP IndexIOSG::NEWLANDRichard Newland, IOSG, REO1-D/4AMon Jan 11 1993 18:1924
There is still a problem in V3.0 when you print from an WP Index.  A
similar problem when printing from the WP menu was fixed in an earlier
version of ALL-IN-1.  The problem does not occur when printing from an EM 
index.

The cause of the problem is in the named data for the print option of the
WP$INDEX$OPTIONS menu.  The statement:

  GET #PRINT_LISTFILE = OA$PARSED_USER:3 OA$CURDOC_DOCNUM\\

should be changed to:

  GET #PRINT_LISTFILE = OA$PARSED_USER:3 \\
  GET #PRINT_LISTFILE = #PRINT_LISTFILE OA$CURDOC_DOCNUM\\


This overcomes a 'feature' of sym:n which will truncate the value to n 
characters but will also pad it to n characters.  If the username is 1 or 2 
characters the listfile name will have padded space characters.

Please submit an SPR so we have a record of this problem.


Richard