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- From: jfile@bmers3.bnr.ca (Jonathan File)
- Subject: dBase 4v1.1:can I change directories on the fly?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.163333.21242@bmers145.bnr.ca>
- Sender: news@bmers145.bnr.ca
- Reply-To: jfile@bnr.ca
- Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 16:33:33 GMT
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- I have two dbase applications. With the DOS 5.0 shell, I could start
- two instances of dbase and task swap between my two applications. This
- was fine. Now I am running windows. I can't start two instances of
- dbase anymore. I get a resource error when I try to start the second one.
- (This may be a result of have DOS share.exe running, but I don't want to
- turn that off).
-
- As a work around,
- I was thinking about starting my first application up, and when I need
- to use the second, I could: close all, switch directories, and start the
- second application (and vice versa). The problem is, I don't see any
- way to switch directories once I am in dbase. The PATH command doesn't
- do me much good, since a number of my file names are common to both
- applications (although they provide different functionality), so the
- files in my current directory would be used, rather than the ones from
- the alternate directory. Opening and closing dbase each time would be
- rather time consuming, since I do task swap between these two applications
- often.
-
- Does anyone have any suggestions on how to:
- - get two version of dbase running in a windows environment with share.exe
- running? or,
- - change directories once I am in a dbase session?, or
- - something else that will get me out of this pickle?
-
- The only other alternative that I see, is to rewrite parts of one of the
- applications to give unique file names and resolve any conflicts between
- the two applications, so that they can run together from the same directory.
- This would involve a fair bit of work, so I'm looking for something quicker
- and dirtier.
-
- Thanks,
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