Windows fP doesn't find its databases

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fairlight" <fairlite at fairlite.com>
To: "filePro Mailing List" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: Windows fP doesn't find its databases


> With neither thought nor caution, Kenneth Brody blurted:
>>
>> PFDATA is no different under Windows than it is under *nix.  The maps,
>> screens, prc, etc. need to be in $PFDATA$PFDIR/filepro/filename.
>
> Except in what, 14 years, I've never once set PFDATA.  It's always blank 
> in
> /etc/default/fppath.  You'll end up with one like:
>
> *****
> /appl
>
> /appl
> *****
>
> So since it's never set in *nix (at least on the systems I've worked on,
> and I'm staring at a working one right now), I'd say it's not exactly
> working the same in Windows.

It certainly IS set on a properly configured unix system if the filepro data 
resides on a mounted filesystem other than "/"
It is possible to mostly get away with pretending there is no such thing as 
other filesystem mount points on unix, but thats not the most correct way 
and not everything works perfectly when you do that. You're basically not 
informing filepro the most truthfully about it's environment, and so filepro 
doesn't always do the most correct or efficient thing when following it's 
internal rules for searching out it's parts. Most things still work though 
so you incorrectly assume there is no problem.

The rule is simple.
These examples include a dummy site password just for utter unambiguity, you 
may omit.

If filepro is in /u/appl   (/u/appl/fp, /u/appl/filepro)
And if /u is a filesystem mount point
Then the correct fppath file looks like this:
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/u/appl
/u
/appl
JfvJTFkj:LkNH
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If /u is just a directory in "/" then fppath looks like this:
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/u/appl

/u/appl
JfvJTFkj:LkNH
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