variable.
   </p></div><p>
   There are two compatibility modes: <code class="literal">INFORMIX</code>, <code class="literal">INFORMIX_SE</code>
  </p><p>
   When linking programs that use this compatibility mode, remember to link
   against <code class="literal">libcompat</code> that is shipped with ECPG.
  </p><p>
   Besides the previously explained syntactic sugar, the <span class="productname">Informix</span> compatibility
   mode ports some functions for input, output and transformation of data as
   w