License Counting

[Brian K. White]

On 11/25/2015 1:23 PM, Kenneth Brody via Filepro-list wrote:
> 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.
>

You can call it ancient all you like, but I still call it "the latest 
usable version", in other words, as current as it gets.

Versions after that are basically some other product that just happens 
to have the same name.

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bkw