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08-20-2002

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Need help with C app on Oracle running on Solaris 6

Hello,

I would really appreciate some help with a problem my current client is having. He has an old legacy app that does his company's financial accounting and ERP for manufacturing, etc. The app was written by a company called "Just in time" in Austin, TX, and they are no longer in business.

The app was running on a Sparc20 running SunOS 5.4 with Oracle on the backend before the system lost its root drive and crashed. They subsequently moved the Oracle and app to a Sun E450 running Solaris 6. The oracle was reinstalled, etc. They copied all the directories and filesystems they could from the old machine to the new. The app runs fine for the most part.

The app is mostly made up of C files created with a Pro*C compiler, and shell scripts which call some of these programs to do automated tasks such as invoice printing, etc. The shell scripts are mainly run via cron once a day. The problem is, the programs called via the shell scripts are not working anymore. They have not worked since moving to the new box. They don't even work on the old machine, anymore. The app does work fine interactively, though, and they are able to use the SAME C program modules called by the shell scripts, to do their work from the main app.

I have been trying to debug just ONE of the programs called by a shell script. One of the parameters passed to the C program is the term type, in this case, vt220. The app has its own termcap sort of file to look up the term type passed to it. vt220 exists in the file. However, the program dies at some point with an error message saying that it wasn't able to find the CRT from its file. Here is the error:

* Error From CIMJIT...Invalid CRT Specified:
Unable to Locate Entry in CRT File: nf_tcl
Press <Return> to Continue

Note that there is nothing after the "invalid CRT specified:" part. It should print whatever value it got for the CRT or term. I have recompiled the program with some debugging printf statements for the args to main. The C program called by the script also calls functions in other C programs. I have only been able to go to one other file before the program dies with this error. It's not easy to explain all of this without actually going thru the app like I have, but I am trying to explain the main points.

If anyone can provide some input or help, I'd really appreciate it. One thing I have thought about is the difference between SunOS5.4 and Solaris 6, ie SunOS 5.6. I think I have all the source and make files and am trying to compile the whole app on the new machine from scratch. It's not very helpful without all the documentation etc. I have also tried running truss on the shell script. I see a few ENOTTY errors on ioctl calls but that's about it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Salman

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openapp

openapp(1)						       GNUstep System Manual							openapp(1)

NAME

       openapp - launch applications from the command line

SYNOPSIS

       openapp [--find] [--debug [--gdb= debuger]] [ --library-combo=library-combo ] application [arguments...]

DESCRIPTION

       The openapp command allows you to launch graphical GNUstep applications from the command line.

       application is the complete or relative name of the application program with or without the .app extension, like Ink.app.

       arguments are the arguments passed to the application.

       openapp	first  checks whether the application is in the current working directory.  If not then searches the GNUstep domains' Applications
       folders in the following order: User (i.e. ~/GNUstep/Applications), Local, Network, System. First match wins.

OPTIONS

       --find application
	      will print out the full path of the application executable which would be executed, without actually executing it. It will also list
	      all paths that are attempted.

       --debug application
	      starts  the  application	in the debugger. By default gdb, but this can be changed with the --gdb= argument or through the GDB shell
	      variable.

       --library-combo=library-combo
	      Starts the application with the specified library combo. This is a rarely used option in a non-flattened	setup.	See  the  library-
	      combo(7) man-page for more information about the different library combinations.

       --help print above usage description.

EXAMPLES

       Start Ink.app without additional parameters:

       openapp Ink.app

       Launch Ink.app and pass it the --debug argument:

       openapp --debug Ink.app

       To determine which executable is launched by openapp, type:

       openapp --find Ink.app

       The output of the above command might be something like: /usr/GNUstep/Local/Applications/Ink.app/Ink

ENVIRONMENT

       GNUSTEP_CONFIG_FILE
	      is  used	to  determine where the GNUstep.sh configuration file is located. If the variable is not set openapp tries to locate it in
	      the folder where openapp was started, then in the user domain, and as a last resort in the system domain (or actually the place  you
	      configured (--with-config-file=) during building).

       GDB    Sets the debugger to use when --debug is used.

SEE ALSO

       debugapp(1), GNUstep(7), gopen(1), library-combo(7), opentool(1)

HISTORY

       Work on openapp started October 1997.

       openapp was originally written by Ovidiu Predescu <ovidiu@net-community.com> and is now maintained by Nicola Pero <nicola.pero@meta-innova-
       tion.com>

AUTHORS

       This manual page was first written July 2003 by Martin Brecher <martin@mb-itconsulting.com>.

       Updated with notes from Hubert Chathi <uhoreg@debian.org> and Dennis Leeuw <dleeuw@made-it.com>, December 2007 by Dennis Leeuw.

gnustep-make							    12/12/2007								openapp(1)

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