Re: DESC difference between 7 & 8?

It looks like you're right because I just discovered that the problem comes & goes. It was totally consistent yesterday but when I checked it just now the problem had disappeared. We've been having memory problems on the 7.3.4 server (unable to allocate cache memory) but this problem is showing up on the 8.1.7 server. Could the fact that I switch between the 2 be causing the problem to 'travel'? So far I'm the only one using the 8.1.7 server (I'm setting up/testing the scripts to create the database & transfer the data, plus finding out what changes are needed in our applications) so maybe I'll get some others using it & see how they do.

Thanks.

"Daniel A. Morgan" wrote:

> Not true. You have something very very wrong.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
> Calvin Crumrine wrote:
>
> > We're in the process of moving from 7.3.4 on Netware to 8.1.7 on Win2K.
> > I was dismayed to discover that the DESC command acts differently on the
> > 2 servers. Is this controllable? Maybe the defaults are set differently?
> >
> > When connected to the 7.3.4 server DESC lists both field names &
> > datatypes. When connected to the 8.1.7 server DESC lists only the field
> > names. If there's not a default setting I can change is there a script I
> > can run to list both field names & datatypes? We've been relying on this
> > as a quick way to check the datatypes when writing applications.
> >
> > TIA.
Received on Thu Jan 24 2002 - 15:05:02 CST