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String Contains a Greater-than Sign

Question: My app. name contains the char “> “: myapp>name Of course, this creates huge problems. How do I get past this in HTML, when displaying or referencing the app.

Kill the Browser’s Offset Bug

On May 9, Mark Williams contributed the following:Manoj Singh’s tip to “Kill the Browser’s Offset Bug” was only partially correct. You can fix this “bug” under Netscape as well as

Set Home Page with DHTML

DHTML intrinsic behavior gives advantage to changing the user’s home page to the current page. The style block, which goes in the of the document, associates the home page class

Activating Trim Trailing Blanks

Question: How do I activate trim trailing blanks from No to Yes? Answer: The SET ANSI PADDING statement controls the setting you are referring to. When a table is being

Writing Null Values to a File

Question: What’s the best way to write null values in file, then read them back from file? Answer: If you are using the built-in PowerBuilder functions to read the data

Renaming a SQL Column

Question: Can I rename a SQL column without making a new table or relying on GUI? Answer: The ALTER TABLE ALTER COLUMN SYNTAX supports either dropping an existing column or

Error When Starting IDS

Question: I just installed IDS 7.31.uc5 on HPUX 11. When I try starting it up (oninit -iy) I get the following error: unable to open input file ‘s’unable to open