ignoring a and b drives

Kenneth Brody kenbrody at bestweb.net
Wed Apr 28 05:31:51 PDT 2004


"Jay R. Ashworth" wrote:
[...]
> > 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/?

It will scan those drives for key/data/index files, rather than the
old method of scanning all drives A: through Y: (DOS/Windows) or all
mounted filesystems (*nix).

ForEach DRIVE in $PFDSK
do
    using $DRIVE/$PFDIR/filepro/$PFNAME
    do
        LookFor key*, data*, index*
    done
done

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