Is there anyone out there who still has an old system called PICK who may be
able to anser this. When running an old program re-compiled using >BASIC
SPROGS STOCKX we get the message "Variable unassigned a value 3 used". The
program used to use zero. What could have changed I wondered lonely as a
cloud.

"Pablo" <whatme (AT) gov (DOT) co.uk> wrote

record to check to see if somebody changed the text from zero to 3.

Roger

Look in the MD for the item "BASIC" and verify that it is not a PROC that
does various other things other than simply BASIC SPROGS STOCKX. It sounds
like it is running a program to execute the Pick BASIC command.

The MD item also should not be a catalog'd program

i.e.
in R83 attribute 1 must not be a "P" and attr 6 must not be "SPROGS STOCKX";
or
in AP/D3 attr 1 must not be "VR" and attr 4 must not be "SPROGS STOCKX".

IHTH

Neil.

Neil Charrington
C.A. Software Systems
www.casoftware.co.uk
www.mv4gl.com
www.jbite.com


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On Wednesday, in article <bm0tmf$qi9$1 (AT) newsg2 (DOT) svr.pol.co.uk>
whatme (AT) gov (DOT) co.uk "Pablo" wrote:

Old?

OLD!?

Looks to me like someone has been poking around with one of the favourite
idle pastimes of changing the standard error messages (in the file ERRMSG).
The commonest was to change the error message 3 (general "I don't
understand" response of the command shell) from "Verb?" to something
like "Oi! Muppet!" There are, however, countless other messages in the
same file, one of which will be the run-time's unnsigned variable
error, though I forget which particular message it is. (Ordinarily,
the message should tell you the error number, in square brackets.
This is the message's id in the ERRMSG file.) It doesn't mean that
3 IS being used, just that someone's mangled the text of the error.
It could just as easily read "Variable not assigned a value. Hot fudge
sauce used." The runtime will still actually be using zero. However,
it's pretty poor practice for such errors to go uncorrected, and
unassigned variables usually indicate someone goofed with a typo
or didn't finish writing the program.

PS: There is no domain gov.co.uk, and you shouldn't be posting with
it.
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On Wednesday, in article <bm0tmf$qi9$1 (AT) newsg2 (DOT) svr.pol.co.uk>
whatme (AT) gov (DOT) co.uk "Pablo" wrote:

One more thing. I may be wrong, but I *think* the error message number
you want is 251, or B251. (Not that I've seen a lot of unassigned
variable errors in my time, you inderstand. Oh no. Never happened to
me. No, no, no... Harrumpf.)
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"Gulraj Rijhwani" wrote
[ unassigned variables usually indicate
someone goofed with a typo or didn't finish
writing the program.]
Or got lazy and stuck a CLEAR command at the top,
and it was later removed by a newbie that thought it
means clear the screen.

gdr (AT) courtfields (DOT) com (Gulraj Rijhwani) wrote in message news:<20031009.0202.2427snz (AT) courtfields (DOT) com>...
Try message B10 in ERRMSG

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richard (AT) calidore (DOT) com "Rich" wrote:

OK. So what's 251, then? Now it's bugging me.
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"Gulraj Rijhwani" <gdr (AT) courtfields (DOT) com> wrote

"Done"

gdr (AT) courtfields (DOT) com (Gulraj Rijhwani) wrote in message news:<20031010.0149.2453snz (AT) courtfields (DOT) com>...

Sorry! there is no reference to 251 in ERRMSG in mvBASE or AP/Pro