Eloquence A.05.12 Release Notes

• New functionality
• Fixed problems
• Known problems

Eloquence A.05.12 is mostly a problem fixing release.

• As the new Eloquence A.06.00 release, Eloquence A.05.12 does now support user licensing.

• IMAGE format handling improved

  When the enviroment variable EQ_USE_NLS is defined, the Eloquence IMAGE format handling is performed slightly different. When activated, the "R" and "P" formats no longer return a hard-coded decimal point or comma but use the values provided by the locale environment (LC_NUMERIC). This makes it possible to use the same set of IMAGE formats for a multi-locale program.

  For example:

    PRINT USING "3DP3DR2D";1234.5
  

  When EQ_USE_NLS is not set, this returns " 1.234,50". When activated, using the de_DE locale it results in " 1.234,50", using the en_US locale it results in " 1,234.50".

• PAGE LENGTH statement

  The PAGE LENGTH statement provides an additional option. The new syntax is:

     PAGE LENGTH Lines [,Top[,Botm]][;Option]
  

  When option is nonzero, a formfeed character (CHR$(12)) is printed to eject the page instead of counting line feed characters. This will use the configured printer page length to determine form length.

• The DATE$ function would return a wrong date format beginning with year 2000. DATE$ has been fixed to still return a two digit year after year 2000. (W3665082)

• The HP-UX 10.x startup script is now able to start the eloqnd server.

  In order to configure the eloqnd server for automatic startup, you need to add the START_ELOQND=1 configuration variable in the startup configuration file /etc/rc.config.d/eloquence. Alternativly, you can copy the new startup configuration template /opt/eloquence/newconfig/startup/eloq.rc.hpux10 to /etc/rc.config.d/eloquence and edit it according to your requirements.

• The Eloquence schema processor could abort with a core dump on an invalid schema file. (W3681153).

• PRINTER IS TTY locks /dev/tty.

  The PRINTER IS TTY and PRINTER IS CONSOLE statements were locking the /dev/tty and /dev/syscon device files. (A4495876)

• SORT BY could result in wrong order, depending on the collating sequence. (W3650760)

• Eloqdb.dll has been fixed. Predicate locking and unlocking did not work properly (W3608031).

• eloqnd has been fixed. It did not handle DBUNLOCK properly.

• fixed compatibility problem in eloqdb.h with K&R C compiler.

• The current DLGSRV.EXE has been built using the Dialog Manager runtime library version 3.06c. This fixes all known bugs concerning modular dialog files and memory/resource leaks. Using modular dialog files should now work as expected.

• The DLGSRV.EXE multitasking concurrency behavior has been improved significantly. Previous DLGSRV versions have been using 'busy-waiting' on inactivity (they permanently polled for network and/or dialog events). This did not really affect the 16bit Windows 'cooperative multitasking' mechanism, but caused considerable load on preemptive multitasking systems.

• rlogin on HP-UX 10.20 could cause softkeys not functioning. As a workaround, you should use telnet instead. This problem is caused by HP-UX 10.20 which relies on streams to implement rlogin. However streams tty emulation is not fully compatible. (G2551487).