Trying to setup a development copy of the filePro databases

Wed Apr 29 17:11:01 UTC 2026

     I did a search of the filePro emails that I saved (hundreds of emails since the 1990’s) but I don’t see an fppath.sh  script.  I’ll try searching the fplist archives, unless somebody else recalls that script.

     Good to hear from you again, Bill! 

Thanks!

Mike

From: William J. McEachran <bill.mceachran at gmail.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2026 9:59 AM
To: Mike Schwartz - PC Support & Services <filepromike at gmail.com>
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com <filepro-list at aws-01.celestial.com>
Subject: Re: Trying to setup a development copy of the filePro databases

Long ago … someone had a script called fppath.sh to do just that.  Do you need it still, if so I’ll fire up an old dusty computer and post it

--

Bill McEachran

bill.mceachran at gmail.com <mailto:bill.mceachran at gmail.com>      289-356-4406

On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 11:24 AM Mike Schwartz - PC Support & Services via Filepro-list <filepro-list at mailman.celestial.com <mailto:filepro-list at mailman.celestial.com> > wrote:

     One of my customers asked me to setup a development copy of their
filePro databases, including a development copy of their menus.  

      Their Linux system is:  2.6.32-573.18.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Jan 6
11:20:49 EST 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

     Their original filePro databases are in /u/appl/filepro, with /appl
linked to /u/appl.  This has worked just fine for years.  

     So I created a /u/appl2/filepro subdir and copied their existing
databases into /appl2

[devgroup at filepro /]$ ls -l | more

total 179

lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root root     7 Nov 11  2016 appl -> /u/appl

lrwxrwxrwx.   1 root root     8 Apr 27 19:20 appl2 -> /u/appl2

     Then I wrote a script that -should- allow a user named "devmaster" to
select either the live filePro menus and databases -or- the
development/testing menus and databases:

[devgroup at filepro ~]$ more .bash_profile

# .bash_profile

# Get the aliases and functions

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then

        . ~/.bashrc

fi

# User specific environment and startup programs

PATH=$PATH:$HOME/bin

export PATH

clear

clear

echo "Select Desired Profile."

echo

echo "1) filePro 2023 ."

echo "2) filePro Apr 2026 ."

echo "3) EXIT ."

echo

echo

read answer

case $answer in

      1)

         #mjs."

         PFPROG=/appl

         #  PFDATA=/

         PFDIR=/appl

         TERM=scoansi

         #  TERM=xterm

         PFMENU=/appl/fp/menus

         PFTMP=/appl/tmp; LOGFILE=/tmp/fm; PFLOGAPPEND=ON

         export PFPROG PFDATA PFDIR PFMENU PFTMP LOGFILE PFLOGAPPEND TERM

         p

         #mjs."

         ###======================================

         ;;

      2)

         #PPM"

         PFCHECKLOCKLOG=/u/tmp/pfchecklock2.log

         PFPROG=/appl

         #  PFDATA=/

         PFDIR=/appl2

         TERM=scoansi

         PFMENU=/appl/fp/menus2

         PFTMP=/appl/tmp; LOGFILE=/tmp/fm; PFLOGAPPEND=ON

         export PFPROG PFDATA PFDIR PFMENU PFTMP LOGFILE PFLOGAPPEND TERM
PFCHECKLOCKLOG

         #p MENU1

         p

         #PPM"

         ###======================================

         ;;

      3)

         #Logging out"

         EXIT

         ##Logging Out."

         ;;

      *)

         #Logging out"

         echo "Sorry, you must enter 1 2 or 3.  Press ENTER to exit..."

         read akey

         EXIT

         ##Logging Out."

         ;;

esac

      (Thanks to "Old Tony" for the sample script he provided to the filePro
list a few years ago.)

      The problem is that whenever I select either option #1 or option #2,
then try to go into "inquire, update, add" on one of the databases, like our
"CustList" database, I get this error message:

*** A filepro Error Has Occurred

on File: /appl/filepro/ListCustomer/data

File Also On /u Drive

Duplicate files found while scanning drives.

***

Press    H -Hardcopy    Enter -Continue

     I presume this error has something to do with the linked /appl and
/u/appl subdirs and/or with the linked /appl2 or /u/appl2 subdirectories,
but I haven't been able to figure out what the problem is.  

     Both instances of databases do share the same set of executables, which
are in /appl/fp, except that there is a /appl/fp/menus 2 folder which holds
the development/testing menus.

     Any ideas?

Thanks!

Mike Schwartz 

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