NEED URGENT HELP

Transpower transpower at aol.com
Tue Jan 25 08:11:18 PST 2005


T Crabtree wrote on 1/25/2005, 10:53 AM:

 > Hello,
 >
 > I need from anyone with old school FilePro knowledge.
 > I need to restore an old installation of FilePro Plus
 > version 4. It is on SCO UNIX Release 3.2v4.0y. I know
 > this is very old, but all company files from 1992 on
 > are in this program, and replacement at this point is
 > not an option. I need to get this restored as soon as
 > possible. I have been working on it for three days.
 >
 > My problem is FilePro itself. I have 5 discs (the blue
 > ones from back when FilePro was from The Small
 > Computer Company). In UNIX, I used the sysadmsh
 > utility to untar the contents of the discs, which puts
 > the files in /appl/fp. It also puts some files in
 > /tmp. I also have the last backup the company made,
 > and those files are untarred to /appl/filepro.
 >
 > It is at this point that I am lost. Running "p"
 > doesn't do anything. I have to run "./p" to get into
 > FilePro, but it doesn't recognize the files in
 > /appl/filepro. I get errors when I try to run the name
 > of the company menu (e.g. ./p ndsmenu)
 >
 > It says "****System Error Occurred ****"
 > "Cannot access menu"
 > "/appl/fp/menus/ndsmenu": No such file or directory
 >
 > I am lost at this point. The files I need to use are
 > stored in /appl/filepro. My /etc/default/fppath file
 > has three lines in it:
 >
 > /appl
 >
 > /appl
 >
 >
 > Can anyone steer me in the right direction? I don't
 > think I have installed FilePro Plus correctly. I need
 > help.

Run the setup program:  /tmp/finish

RWS
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