License Counting

[Kenneth Brody]

On 11/24/2015 2:53 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 23, 2015 at 09:49:10PM -0500, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> On 11/23/2015 12:41 PM, Chris Rendall via Filepro-list wrote:
>>> We are currently using filePro 5.0.14 with a 64 user license.
>>>
>>> If I remember correctly, we should be able to have 64 copies of rclerk
>>> open, and 64 copies of rreport open at the same time.  Am I correct?  Or
>>> is filePro counting up the total amount of rrclerk and rreport processes
>>> running and we can only run a total of 64 rclerk/rreport processes?
>>
>> You can have 64 *clerk/*report sessions, combined.  Note, however,
>> that multiple programs in one session only uses one license.  (For
>> example a SYSTEM "dreport" from dclerk does not take a second
>> license.)
>
> Bzzzzt.  Read the OP again.  He said 5.0.14.  SYSTEM not eating licenses
> gratuitously was a 5.6-ism, as I recall.

Yes, I see he's still on the ancient 5.0.14 version.  The SYSTEM not eating 
licenses was a license manager feature, which I believe was 5.0.15?  Given 
that that was more than a decade ago, I didn't think to adjust my answer for 
those without it.

-- 
Kenneth Brody