Filepro and Multiple Database Structures

[Bob Stockler]

Doug Luurs wrote (on Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 03:59:20PM -0400):

| Can you have to different filepro systems on one computer ?
| 
| Ie:- 
| 
|    Filesystem Production			Filepro Development
| 	(100 Users)					 (5-10 Users)
| 
| 	98% of the people use this		100% of the people can access
| 	Have no access to the Other		this system
| 
| If so .. How would you set this up ?  Can you set it up so that XX login can
| Access one area (.profile Setup?) and not the other.

The answer is yes.

You need to manage how PFPROG, PFDATA, PFDIR and PFDSK are set in
the users' environments (in "/etc/profile" and in "$HOME/.profile"
for users you want to make exceptions).

You can have as many sets of filePro programs you want in various
"fp" directories pointed to by PFPROG (including different versions
of filePro).

You can have as many sets of filePro files you want in various
"filepro" directories pointed to by PFDATA, PFDIR and PFDSK.

It all depends on what your objective is.

Bob

PS - You can also give your developers a program that presents
     them a menu of different combinations of the settings of
     these environmental parameters.  Executing that program
     with the dot command, as with:

        . program_name

     changes the enviornment it their current shell, so they
     can move from one environment to another very easily.

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