Filepro and Multiple Database Structures

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Fairlight (Tue, 9 Aug 2005 19:27:14 -0400):

> The honourable and venerable Doug Luurs spoke thus:
> > Can you have to different filepro systems on one computer ?
[...]
> Don't see why not.  Let's qualify these as implementations A and B.
>
> Let's say you put A under /appl and B under /appl2.
>
> Group A users would have a .profile that puts /appl/fp in their path, so
> any references to *clerk or the like are group A binaries.
>
> Group B users would have a .profile that puts /appl2/fp in their path,
> to do the opposite.

Pointing to different binaries without changing the data paths won't
do anything useful.  And, once you point to the different data path,
there's no need to use separate binaries.  (Unless you want to have
different versions of filePro, like 4.8 and 5.0, for some reason.)

> Using fP's environment variables, you can override all the data
> locations anyway, as I'm sure you're aware.  Technically, there's one
> for the programs as well, I think, although I never used it.

PFPROG

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