SPUG: Variable in subroutines to check number of args?

[John Costello]

On Fri, 14 Jul 2006, C.J. Adams-Collier wrote:

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> John Costello wrote:
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> > I'm converting data from shift-jis to unicode as part of a
> > conversion of data from
> > ${UNSUPPORTED-UNDOCUMENTED-PSEUDO-DB-APPLICATION} (or UUPDA for
> > short) to SAP.
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> Didn't you hear?  They call it MaxDB these days. :)

Actually, it's filemaker 5 (which is a CTABLE-ish thing) which isn't too 
complex if you can read the language of the application (nope, didn't 
study Japanese) and the scripts (nope), or have someone who knows how the 
system (nope) or can figure out how it was put together (nope).  
 
> Ask me how I know...

I'll ask you what MaxDB is.  The name rings a bell, but that's it.