Hi,

My laptop is set up to connect to the network with the BDE idapi.cfg
including a common correct location for the .net file on the server.

Away from the network this causes a 'can't connect to network .....' error
and I select the option to continue with the network disabled.

I have tried putting

-o "C:\Program Files\Borland\Common Files\Bde\pandora.cfg"

in the properties of a second startup shortcut, 'pandora.cfg' being a BDE
configuration saved with C:\ as the location for the .net file

I get the error message

"BDE config filename is invalid. using default"

I have tried putting just the filename, putting it into the startup
directory, and various other fiddles. No luck.

(I found enumEngineInfo which will give the cfg file used by inference on
the .net file location)

Any simple thing that I must do to make this work please? I have dug into
past posts to the group but find nothing to help.


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Anne Wainwright
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-o "C:\Program Files\Borland\Common Files\Bde\pandora.cfg"
Are you sure you have specified the correct folder?

On my machine, it's
C:\Program Files\Common Files\Borland Shared\BDE


Are you sure the name is pandora.cfg? And not pandora.cfg.ini? In some
versions of Paradox, the cfg file when saved got a .ini extension if .cfg
wasn't registered under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.


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"Anne Wainwright" <duffaddress (AT) ananzi (DOT) co.za.invalid> skrev i meddelandet
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Hi, Bertil,

"Bertil Isberg" <ctech (AT) corel (DOT) ca> wrote in
news:45d0d429$1 (AT) pnews (DOT) thedbcommunity.com:

Absolutely, Borland comes first. There is no Borland subdirectory in
Common Files.

If I inspect the properties of the file it identifies it as a cfg file
and Windows Explorer similarly identifies it as such. I am running pdox9
under XP. I'll look a bit further this evening.

Thanks
Anne



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Anne Wainwright
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In my experience, the BDE cannot recover gracefully from not having the
currently-set configuration file available..

BEFORE removing the laptop from the network, you must use the BDE
Administrator to change the configuration file from the one on the network
to the one on the laptop.

"Anne Wainwright" <duffaddress (AT) ananzi (DOT) co.za.invalid> wrote

Robert, hi,

Thanks for the suggestion but . . .

That's just the sort of daily labour I was hoping to avoid. Changing the
..net location twice daily, and if I forget to change it back in the morning
the results could be disastrous. Knowing my own limitations this is bound
to happen and so I won't follow that route.

The Pdox help clearly indicates that the -o switch will allow the loading
of an alternative config file, but as you see to no avail todate. Together
with a seperate desktop shortcut this should be the way to go. I'll
persevere and accept the limitations if it doesn't go my way.

Regards
Anne

"Robert Molyneux" <ibisnest_removeantispam_ (AT) iinet (DOT) net.au> wrote in
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Anne Wainwright
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Hi, again.

I checked the file name from within the cmd window and it is named .cfg
with no trace of an .ini .

Another mystery, maybe Robert has a point and bde will not do as told in
this instance.

Regards
Anne

"Bertil Isberg" <ctech (AT) corel (DOT) ca> wrote in
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Anne Wainwright
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Anne,

I'm rather sure yous should be able to do what you are trying to do, no idea
why it doesn't work

Anders

Anne

The -o configuration switch works for me (Paradox 11 from X3. Here is my
command line
"C:\Program Files\Paradox\Programs\pdxwin32.exe" -p "C:\priv" -w
"c:\Program Files\Klova" -o "c:\Program Files\Klova\K LOVA 9.CFG"
"C:\Program Files\Klova\APPLIC~1.FSL"

The only difference is my net file location is
C:\Program Files\Borland\Common Files\BDE

Maybe Paradox and XP don't like you using the root of C or maybe you don't
have write access.

HTH - Rick

"Anne Wainwright" <duffaddress (AT) ananzi (DOT) co.za.invalid> wrote

Rick
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XP don't like you using the root of C
Definitely not. Do NOT use c: root as NETDIR, and not for anything else.

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"Rick Rans" <rick.rans (AT) canada (DOT) com> skrev i meddelandet
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Bertil - I realize that and so I used
C:\Program Files\Borland\Common Files\BDE

It looks like Anne is using
C:\
and I think that is her problem. Hopefully she'll check back and let us
know.

Thanks

"Bertil Isberg" <ctech (AT) corel (DOT) ca> wrote