Were there any problems with the 5.0-a-million-zeros-.05 version of fpcopy for Linux?

[Jose Lerebours]

I think I remember a similar post some years back - or was it related to 
"expanding a table"?

If memory serves me well, the solution was around the usual steps: 
autoshuf, reindex and/or remove locks

To be honest, when I started reading your post, for some odd reason, it 
felt like I was putting layers over
one another.

Then again, I live in a parallel world   ;-)


On 1/11/22 10:44 AM, john--- via Filepro-list wrote:
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> A gentleman had some trouble with that level’s setperms file, and after fixing that… the only remaining problem is that fpcopy gives one of those “*** A FilePro error has occurred ***” but with absolutely no other information on the screen.  Before taking serious steps to trace this out, We spent a lot of time on the phone, and always arriving at what seemed like an fpcopy that just doesn’t work when all the other executables do work fine. it seemed like a permissions problem, but all appears to be okay in all typical file-related functions.
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> There is one other anomaly.  The FilePro fppath file is showing as:
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> Which indicates that there is a mounted file system on /usr.
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> Setting PFDSK to /usr/appl fixes other typical problems, but putting the file to:
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> Which is probably what it *should* be since there is no listed “mounted” /usr file system, does not fix the fpcopy problem… (We unset PFDSK in this instance.), but does cause some other annoying file finding/opening problems.  This is all after employing a much more current/working setperms on the system.
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> I guess my real question is… could there have been a problem with the actual fpcopy executable in the 5.0.00.05 release of Linux FP?  I only ask, because the setperms that came with this version was very problematic, and fixing that fixed everything else but the rmeianing fpcopy problem.
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> If he sees this note, he can adde any more comments that might help more than the little time I had with him on the phone.  Both he and another “more retired” gentleman are both very long time FilePro users from the early 80s and capable with “vi”,  and have a very good understanding of FilePro, so it is easy to help them out.
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> Just don’t want to waste their time, or mine chasing who-dos if there is a simple ready-to-go solution… like replacing the fpcopy executable… which they can do.
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> Thanks,
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> JJE
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