ignoring a and b drives

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 08:31:51AM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> "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

IOW, it's looking for your current PFDIR underneath those drive
letters/directories.  I assume that a) it scans them in order, and b)
it stops scanning the first time it finds a valid PFDIR under one?

Cheers,
-- jr 'rigor, my boy; rigor in all specifications' a
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