Lookup across drives

[Brian K. White]

That is just plain slick Nancy.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nancy Palmquist" <nlp at vss3.com>
To: <john at valar.com>
Cc: "Filepro-List at Lists. Celestial. Com" <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: Lookup across drives


> John Esak wrote:
>>> Robert,
>>> I don't think that is correct. PFDSK can not be set in a way that will 
>>> let
>>> you do lookups across differeing PFDIRS.
>>>
>>> Too bad...
>>>
>>> John
>>
>> Let me clarify that... I didn't mean that PFDSK can't be set to multiple
>> drives. Yes, you can set PFDSK to multiple drives, but the PFDIR and 
>> PFDATA
>> variables would have to match exactly and there would have to be no
>> duplications of filePro filenames to do this successfully.
>>
>> John
>
>
> John,
>
> I hate to say this but this is a bit incorrect.  Filenames can be
> duplicated if you need to have some stuff here and some stuff there.
>
> If I set up like this:
>
> c:\filepro\customers\map
> c:\filepro\customers\screen.0
> c:\filerpo\customers\input.prc
>
>
> M:\filepro\customers\key
> M:\filepro\customers\data
> M:\filepro\customers\index.A
>
>
> with PFDSK=CM
> PFDATA=C:
> PFPROG=c:\fp
>
> This would work great.  I have tested this with Unix and Windows and the
> primary location will require the map.
>
> If the M: drive is also seen by UNIX with samba or something similar,
> the Unix version of file would have its own folder with the map and
> processes and would have the key stuff on its second location.
>
> /appl/filepro/customers/map
> /appl/filepro/customers/screen.0
> /appl/filepro/customers/prc.input
>
>
> /u/appl/filepro/customers/key
> /u/appl/filepro/customers/data
> /u/appl/filepro/customers/index.A
>
> PFDSK=/;/u
> PFDATA=/appl
>
> If the M: the windows computer sees is the /u/appl folder on the unix
> system this will work and both systems will lock records correctly.
>
> Both systems will update the files and indexes correctly.
>
> I recall that the lockfile was always placed on the first drive so they
> would not be able to see each others files for that.  A small issues.
>
> I also do not remember what happened when I rebuilt the indexes.  I
> think it put them back on the C: or the /appl mount, depending on which
> system did it, but I do not recall for certain.  I do KNOW that if it is
> put on the shared drive it will update correctly.
>
> This requires a filesystem that works with samba or facetwin or
> something similar.
>
> I have this type of system in place to allow 3 unix servers to share a
> few setup files.  Also, these 3 unix servers can see data that can also
> be seen from a windows server behind a firewall.  I throw data into a
> file and the windows side can get it out of the file.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Nancy
>
>
>
>
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