Protop

[maday15]

I just downloaded and extracted PROTOP, and I'm not real sure where to go from here. It is on my C: drive. The Progress database is on an AIX box. I'm new with Progress, and fairly new with UNIX as well. I found a command in the readme file (mpro sports -p protop.p -param "i;10|d;UIO"), I assume this should be typed in after I connect to the database, but how does it know to look at the C: drive, do I need to ftp something up to AIX? Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks, Brian

 

[TomBascom]

In all cases it needs to be in the PROPATH. For Unix that means that you probably need to do something like:

PROPATH=$PROPATH:/home/protop

(if you installed it in /home/protop.) For Windows you need to edit the registry and add it to the propath or mess with proenv.

It works best when it can make a self service connection. So ideally you would install it on the AIX box. In that case you would use a command similar to:

mpro databasename -p protop

(don't bother with the -param stuff -- that's just an example of starting on a particular screeen...)

But you can run it on a windows box and use a client/server connection instead. If you're going to run it on windows you can run either a GUI session or a character session. The GUI is "lightly tested" and there have been a couple of recent reports of something not fitting in a frame somewhere -- easy to fix but I haven't gotten around to it (you've got the source though...) The character client is just like the unix character client. You just run _progres.exe instead of prowin32.exe. In both cases the command line looks like:

mpro dbname -H hostname -S servicename -p protop.p

(substitute prowin32 or _progres for "mpro").

Alternatively start a progress session and from the editor type:

propath = "c:\propath".
run protop.p.