ignoring a and b drives

[George Simon]

It'll scan the drive(s) for filePro databases under the filePro
folder/directory.
PFDSK=F tells filePro to look at drive F and only F when searching for
filePro databases.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 11:19 PM
Subject: Re: ignoring a and b drives


>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 11:23:38PM -0400, George Simon wrote:
> > From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
> > > On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 09:17:39PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> > > > Bob Haussmann wrote:
> > > > > >    Am setting up new computer and cannot get filepro
> > > > > > to ignore the a and b drives.  Error is there is no
> > > > > > disk in the drive.  Please insert a disk into drive A.
> > > > > > Seem to remember set ignore=AB but must have syntax
> > > > > > wrong in my memory.   Thanks
> > > > >
> > > > > Robert,
> > > > >
> > > > > Try:  SET PFIGN=AB
> > > >
> > > > Or the more modern "PFDSK=drives" where "drives" is a list of the
drive
> > > > letters you want filePro to scan.  (On *nix, PFDSK is a
colon-separated
> > > > list of directories.)
> > >
> > > At the risk of sounding stupid, "that you want filePro to scan" for
> > > *what*?  /fp/?  /filepro/?  `echo $PFDIR`?  /appl/?
> >
> > filePro
>
> I'm sorry, George, but that was an almost *entirely* content-free reply.
>
> Could you vague it up a bit for me?
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
> --
> Jay R. Ashworth
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