ODBC pricing and usage...

[John Esak]

Yes, loading win apps on Unix works... I've done it and it is pretty cool.
However, during the fpODBC install you are going to have to supply one (and
only one) volume id to satisfy and lock the license, right?  So, to clarify
and distill my long-winded question...  How do people out there implement a
multi-user ODBC filePro app?

The few times I've ever installed a Windows network filePro app, I do the
following.  I load filePro on each of the machines for the user count, say
five. then I point all the machines to the same PFDIR on a server
somewhere... usually a Unix server (:-))  But no matter, the 4 or 5 machines
are all loaded with their own executables and they all point to and use the
same data on a particular machine.

How in the world do you load 4 or 5 copies of fpODBC onto 4 or 5 different
machines so they can all point to the same data-dir as I do above with a
normal network non-ODBC version of filePro?  Each time you load the fpODBC
it would ask for the volume label, right?  Does FP Tech give you 5 separate
fplic.dat files, one for each volume label you supply?

Thanks, and again, I know these questions are uninformed and naive. I just
don't use Windows FP that much... and never have used other than the single
user ODBC copies I own.  (One of the copies I own may be 5 user... I'd have
to look, but I've never done any multi-user apps with it yet.)

John


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