Help - Removal of Lock Files

[T Crabtree]

OK. I appreciate the tip about the subject line. No
more all caps.

It looks like the backup put the menus in
/appl/bin/fp/menus for some reason. I don't know why,
but copying the appropriate file to /appl/fp/menus now
works.

"p ndsmenu"

But now the problem is a lockfile error I get whenever
I make a selection from ndsmenu:

*****System Error Has Occurred*****
/appl/filepro/ndswhse/lockfile: Permission denied.

I think I have asked before, but how do I clear the
lockfiles?
Also, does the lockfile have anything to do with the
"ERROR reading index" I get when I select the files
from the main FilePro Plus menu?

Thanks for your help. You guys may just be
life-savers.

--- Kenneth Brody <kenbrody at bestweb.net> wrote:

> T Crabtree wrote:
> [... Restored old filePro 4.?? on SCO 3.2v4.0y ...]
> > 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.
> 
> Did you run "/tmp/finish" to complete the install?
> 
> > It is at this point that I am lost. Running "p"
> > doesn't do anything. I have to run "./p" to get
> into
> 
> I doubt that it "doesn't do anything".  I assume you
> really mean
> it gives you an error about not finding "p"?  (If
> you are logged
> in as "root", then the current directory is, by
> default, not in
> the search path.)
> 
> > 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
> 
> Does that menu actually exist?  It's not part of
> filePro, so it
> must be a user-defined menu.  Did you restore the
> user menus?
> 
> [...]
> > Can anyone steer me in the right direction? I
> don't
> > think I have installed FilePro Plus correctly. I
> need
> > help.
> 
> If you didn't run "/tmp/finish", then you didn't
> complete the
> installation.
> 
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