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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