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- Installing dBASE IV on LANtastic
-
- Installing dBASE IV is fairly straighforward, and in general one
- should be able to successfully install it following the directions in
- the dBASE manual for installation on the IBM PC LAN. The following
- points address issues not covered in the dBASE manual.
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- 1. You cannot have SHARE.EXE running while you are installing dBASE.
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- 2. Before installing, you need to add the REDIR and SERVER commands to
- your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. The installation process apparently checks
- in this file to make sure that these commands are there and will
- not install if it does not find them. You may remove them after
- dBASE is installed if you wish to have a separate LAN startup batch
- file.
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- 3. There is one exception to the installation directions:
-
- The installation process creates 2 directories off of the root
- directory, one which holds all of the dBASE programs and the other
- which stores the data on the defined users. The instructions say
- to create a shared resource which points directly to the \DBASE
- directory (which stores the programs), this is incorrect. You
- should create, in the NET_MGR program under network access
- information, a disk device which has its link path set to be the
- drive letter on which you installed dBASE.
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