UID question

[Kenneth Brody]

David Johnson wrote:
[...]
> We started our data files in August 1985 on Tandy Xenix. So our user ID
> numbers are all in the 200s.
> 
> As I enter these old user ID numbers and names on the new server, it complains
> 
> "Creating a user with a UID less than 500 is not recommended. Are you sure
> you want to do this?"
> 
> If I used UID numbers in the 500s, is there some way for Filepro to convert
> these to the old numbers for me so the real user name that created a record
> comes up on the screen?
> 
> Or is this warning something I should just ignore?

If you're not in conflict with existing UIDs, you should be able to safely
ignore the warning.

However, filePro has no built-in method of changing all of the UIDs stored
in all of the key files for every filePro file.  You could do this manually
by writing a program that went through /appl/filepro/*/key* and changed all
of the binary UIDs in the record headers to the new values.

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