how to protect old filepro from new filepro ?

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The usual idiom involves symlinks.

Assuming you have 5.0.14 under /appl/fp/ right now, what most places would
do is:

1) mv /appl/fp /appl/fp_5_0_14
2) Install 6.2.0 (or whatever they're up to) to /appl/fp_6_2_0
3) ln -sf /appl/fp_6_2_0 /appl/fp

That would leave you in an upgraded state.  If you ever needed to fall
back, you could just:

rm /appl/fp
ln -sf /appl/fp_5_0_14 /appl/fp

(You -must- remove the symlink to a directory first, otherwise `ln` will
create the symlink -inside- the target, if it's a directory (or points to
one) already.  If it were a file or pointed to a file, it would overwrite
it.)

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On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 04:16:44PM -0500, Tony Freehauf via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Hi Experts - i have both old 5014 filepro and new filepro (paid for and not
> installed). How can i install new filepro so that it never touches or
> changes old filepro programs and data files?
> 
> thanks for the help
> 
> oldtony
> 
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