PROGRESS version

[bulklodd]

Progress supplies two installation packages for some OS, one of them is 32bit another is 64bit. How can I non-programmatically detect what kind of the packages I've got installed?

TIA

 

[Lee Curzon]

Use Promon

See KB P5973:

http://tinyurl.com/afbg2


HTH

 

[bulklodd]

Thank you, Lee, it works

BTW There's a way to detect it programmatically. Here's a snippet

DEFINE VARIABLE p AS MEMPTR NO-UNDO.
DEFINE VARIABLE i AS INTEGER NO-UNDO.
SET-SIZE(p) = 1.
i = GET-POINTER-VALUE(p) NO-ERROR.
IF i = ? THEN
MESSAGE "64bit"
VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX INFO BUTTONS OK.
ELSE
MESSAGE "32bit"
VIEW-AS ALERT-BOX INFO BUTTONS

 

[Lee Curzon]

Clever!

You may also be able to access it programmatically via these fields:

_DbStatus._DbStatus-ShmVers
_DbStatus._DbStatus-SharedMemVer

I don't know though whether they reflect the database as it was originally created, or as it is currently running - the latter I would imagine.

Perhaps someone can clarify.


ps. Of course, bulklodd's is better as it doesn't require DB connection.

 

[Lee Curzon]

Bulklodd,

According to the knowledgebase (different GET-POINTER-VALUE return values according to 32/64 bit):


"This is not a bug, but a product limitation at this time."

 

[bulklodd]

"This is not a bug, but a product limitation at this time."

I knew that, it was a single way for me to determine what kind of progress i've got installed. Now I've got another one

 

[Lee Curzon]

No, I meant I found Progress use of words (denial of bug) amusing.

Anyway, I learnt something new too - good trick.