I talked to Eugene about this early in the year, and the value has to be
set BEFORE you run MPEX, so it can't be in the MPEXMGR file.  You can't
change it on the fly within MPEX either, you have to exit, change it, and
then get back in.  It operates like a number of his other startup JCW's and
variable.s





"Emerson, Tom # El Monte" <[log in to unmask]> on 09/21/99
08:45:21 AM

Please respond to "Emerson, Tom # El Monte" <[log in to unmask]>

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Subject:  Re: MPEX puzzlement




I suspect you've found a genuine bug -- my guess is that Eugene references
the variable once during startup code and stores it away [avoiding the need
to re-evaluate it].  Try this: now that the second run of MPEX recognizes
the cutoff, change the cutoff to, say, 1960 and calc a date of 01/01/55.

Also, I suspect this initialization code would execute BEFORE evaluating
the
contents of the various MPEXMGR files

Tom Emerson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Hammond [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 7:56 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: MPEX puzzlement
>
>
> Okay someone explain this one to me - and Vladimir is
> visiting Thursday, so he might be able to answer it.
>
> In my MPEXMGR file, I set the jcw VESOFTYEARBASE=1950 as
> detailed in the memo from VESOFT I received last week. This
> sets a 'roll-over' year for dates.
>
> I then do the follow
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
> :showtime
> TUE, SEP 21, 1999,  9:50 AM
> :showvar v@
>          ^
> No match found for this variable set. (CIWARN 8116)
> :mpex
>
> MPEX/3000  27N81128  (c) VESOFT Inc, 1980  5.5
>
> %showvar v@
> VESOFTYEARBASE = 1950
> VESOFTDEFAULTPRINT = ;keepamdates
> %calc cdate(01/01/01,"MM/DD/YYYY")
> 01/01/1901
> %exit
>
> END OF PROGRAM
> :showvar v@
> VESOFTYEARBASE = 1950
> VESOFTDEFAULTPRINT = ;keepamdates
> :mpex
>
> MPEX/3000  27N81128  (c) VESOFT Inc, 1980  5.5
>
> %showvar v@
> VESOFTYEARBASE = 1950
> VESOFTDEFAULTPRINT = ;keepamdates
> %calc cdate(01/01/01,"MM/DD/YYYY")
> 01/01/2001
> %exit
>
> END OF PROGRAM
> :
> >>>>>>>>>
> Okay - the jcw is set as the first instance of MPEX starts,
> but it seems to be ignored by it. But when you run MPEX a
> second time, it works.
>
> Interesting.
>
> steve hammond
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>