Am running Foxpro 2.6 on SCO 5.0.2 and have been for 10 years.

This week for no apparant reason, my foxpro sys(30) call that should return
the unix login has been returning 'L#*' (regardless of the actual login)
instead.
It does this intermittently and I can find no reason for it nor any pattern
in its occurrence. Have found someone who has had a similar experience that
rewrote their foxpro code without using sys(30). This is not my peferred
option.

Has anyone experienced this strange event and if so any idea of a fix or
work around???

Kind regards,

John Clarke

John Clarke wrote:
>
> Am running Foxpro 2.6 on SCO 5.0.2 and have been for 10 years.
>
> This week for no apparant reason, my foxpro sys(30) call that should return
> the unix login has been returning 'L#*' (regardless of the actual login)
> instead.
> It does this intermittently and I can find no reason for it nor any pattern
> in its occurrence. Have found someone who has had a similar experience that
> rewrote their foxpro code without using sys(30). This is not my peferred
> option.
>
> Has anyone experienced this strange event and if so any idea of a fix or
> work around???
>
> Kind regards,
>
> John Clarke

No real idea, but I can remember having to trim utmp,utmpx,wtmp,wtmpx with
5.0.2 a few times when things went strange.

Mike

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