Omnis error

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3 total messages Started by SJD9 Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:25

#236

Author: SJD9
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 22:25

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A friend of mine is fairly new to Omnis and is having a problem.
Using Omnis 7, he is having a client enter records into a database
that he has set up. Thing go fine, until several hundred records
are entered, then an error, "Attempted to read beyond end of file."
comes up, the Mac bombs, and the data file is damaged.

Any ideas on why this is happening?
Is there anything to avoid in entering records that might overflow
  a storage area or something?

Blyth  tech support has been no help so far.

Steve

Re: Omnis error

#237

Author: Leslie Farnell
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 08:10

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SJD9@psuvm.psu.edu writes:

>A friend of mine is fairly new to Omnis and is having a problem.
>Using Omnis 7, he is having a client enter records into a database
>that he has set up. Thing go fine, until several hundred records
>are entered, then an error, "Attempted to read beyond end of file."
>comes up, the Mac bombs, and the data file is damaged.

>Any ideas on why this is happening?
>Is there anything to avoid in entering records that might overflow
>  a storage area or something?

We just had a similar problem with the program apparently unable to 
recognise the end of file. In this case things work fine on our
development machine, but our enduser is a "cutting edge of technology"
man with excessive amounts of RAM, System 7, and other things we don't
use for development. I'm afraid this doesn't help, but then we have no
leads either.

>Blyth  tech support has been no help so far.

What I've come to expect - admittedly in Australia the distibutors are
a more direct problem than Blyth, which is somewhat remote from us.

>Steve

Les

Re: Omnis error

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Author: Jerry Sy
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:20

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In a previous article, SJD9@psuvm.psu.edu () says:

>
>Blyth  tech support has been no help so far.
>
>Steve
>

That does not surprise me !!

the tech support there is so bad , that they now refuse to return my calls
anymore.  it would have been ok if they just admit to me they don't know
anything about omnis, but what pi__es me is they still PRETEND to be omnis
expert! (them not knowing omnis may be an overstatement, it should have
been they don't know anything about computers).

I think blyth is the company with the worst business ethics that I have
dealt with.

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