Some clarifications...

[John Esak]

I sent this set of simple questions to Ken a couple days ago. I'll post it
over on the new forum a little later today. In fact, I will be posting there
first from now on. Since FP Tech was good enough to now sponsor a company
supported forum, I'm going to give it as much support myself as possible. I
will continue to participate in this mailing list daily, because Bill
Campbell has been so thoroughly professional and wonderful for managing to
keep it going essentially without fail day and night for the pas decade+,
and I want it to be decade++. Periodically, like some others, I send Bill a
few bucks in appreciation. He would never tell you this, but his mailing
address is Bill Campbell, Celestial Software, 6641 East Mercer Way, Mercer
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As for these filePro questions, some of the answers may surprise you.

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net]
Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 10:45 AM
To: john at valar.com
Subject: Re: big discussion on TOK


Quoting John Esak (Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:55:45 -0400):

> Some questions people in the FP Room want clarification on:
>
> 1a. First, people want confirmation that PFFILES is not required if they
> are running Windows (native) version of filePro. Is it true that this does
> NOT have to be in the FP config file or in the environment?

Correct.  Windows allows 2048 open files per process by default, so
there is no need for PFFILES.  (MS-DOS defaulted to 20.)

> 1b. Can anyone obtain a DOS version of filePro after 5.0? So, if they
> can't, would it be true that no one using 5.x FP would ever need to use
> this variable. Is the manual wrong because it shows it witht the words
> Windows/Network next to it?

No.  There is no longer an MS-DOS version of filePro.  I don't recall
if the last version was 4.5 or 4.8, but definitely not 5.0.

> 2. PFLBLSIZE, when it becomes necessary, is it only needed on the
> development size to create the prc table, or is it needed by the runtime
> programs as well? IN other words, once the table is made as a prc or
> tok, does the variable still have to be set in the environment for
> dclerk/rclerk or dreport/rreport?

It's for rcabe only.

> 3. The *TOKSIZE variables. Are these required by both d and r programs,
> and are they only required for the creation of tok tables? Or, are they
> required at runtime, too. If so, just for dclerk and dreport, or do
> rclerk and rreport need them also?

While rclerk and rreport don't use them, rcabe does.

(Nnote from John... Ken is saying by this, that dclerk and dreport *do*
require them.)


> I know the answer to some or all of these, but an author-itive answer is
> desired. :-)

> John


I guess "author-itive" is better than "horse's mouth [or the other end]".


-----
>From John

Yes, definitely better than the "other" end. :-)


Now, our next question should be. Does having any of this stuff cause
resoureces to be used up without need. Could they ever be detrimental... how
about on a 256Mb RAM XP Pro system? For example, what if you had PFFILES=400
set in your config file. Any detriment? Any problems?

JE