rc4test: Invalid number of arguments

[Pirjo Salvos]

Hi! My customer got next error, when he tried to run program:
rc4test: Invalid number of arguments
usage: rc4test

He also told me that compiler works.
I have earlier installed in that server HP/MF COBOL version:B13.45. This server is HP-UX B.11.00 8000/800.
What could be wrong? Can anybody help me?
Me myself don't know cobol! I have only installed compiler and Oracle Pro*cobol.

Regards Pirjo Salvos

[Elmar P. Kolkman · Accepted solution]

First thing that comes to mind: spaces in arguments, resulting in too many arguments... Or an empty argument.

I don't know what rc4test is, but you could test how it is called by renaming rc4test to rc4test.orig and creating a script called rc4test that contains this:

#!/bin/ksh
echo "cmdline: $0 $*" >>/tmp/rc4test.cmdline
echo "#args: $#" >>/tmp/rc4test.cmdline
$0.orig $*

That way you can see in /tmp/rc4test.cmdline how it is called.
You could replace the $* on the last line by "$1" "$2" "$3" "$4", but that might result in problems because you force the 4 arguments!

[Pirjo Salvos]

Thankyou very much for your ansver and I'm so sorry that this took so long time to get that answer. We got that run with rtsora and now we can go on.
Best Regards Pirjo Salvos