Hi,
How can i add more space disk at Pick AP?

Thanks,
VL

Mr VL,

First off, prepare yourself for numerous postings telling you to hurry
up and get off such an old platform. I'm pretty sure you can't even
buy hardware that will run "Advanced" Pick anymore.

Now, back to your question.. some older Picks had an adddisk utility.
You might want to look for an executable by that name in your pick
directory.

But again, if you are running anything important on Pick AP, you have a
fiduciary responsiblity to upgrade or rehost. Please tell us more
about your system and where you are. Many of us would be glad to help.

Douglas

With AP/PRO and D3, you can resize a single file to more space by doing
these commands at TCL ....

ISTAT filename (S
The current modulo and the new suggested modulo for the file will be
displayed.
The new suggested modulo will be a prime number.

RESIZE filename newmodulo (W
The file will be resized to the new modulo.

Use command PRIME number <c> to find a bigger prime number if desired.

Note that you cannot resize a file this way to be smaller than the
original modulo.

Dave Weaver, Weaver Consulting
PS: Douglas' suggestion to upgrade from AP/PRO is a good one! Give it
some serious consideration.



douglas (AT) pickteam (DOT) com wrote:

Ahhh, I misread the original question: How to increase DISK space.

Most likely, your AP/PRO is using the maximum disk space allowed (there
were limits, I just cannot remember them any longer), even if the
physical disk was larger than the disk space being used for AP/PRO. So,
your problem is not an easy one to solve.

The ADDDISK utility mentioned by Douglas was for the old AP/DOS and
will not work with AP/PRO.

Today's modern systems (D3 and so on) typically have at least an 18GB
drive which is *much* larger than the space you are currently using. If
you are truly out of disk space, the only acceptable solution is to
upgrade to D3 or some other MultiValue platform.

Of course, you could try to identify some of the data you could safely
delete or purge, like old history files and so on. Most "old" systems
have a ton of "junk" laying around that is no longer necessary. This
might free up some space for you.

At TCL, enter the command FREE. If you have less than 20% disk free
(unused), you are already in trouble. It may be time to get some expert
help with your problem.

Dave Weaver, Weaver Consulting



Dave Weaver wrote:

VL,

You should try a file-save & file-restore (:files). You can often get
back large chunks of disk that have been 'lost' . I've had a couple
of sites where the disk was showing as full before the restore & had
about 50% free after.

Geoff

AP/Pro ran off the BIOS. Any disk the BIOS can see, Pick can see.

Just do a save.
add the new disk drive
check the bios
reboot and restore

The restore/initialization will add the new frames to the overflow table.


"Geoff Goodchild" <goodchild_g (AT) yahoo (DOT) com.au> wrote

VL,
Sorry, I was off for a few weeks.
To increase disk space, always you have to save data in another disk,
update your disk partition, do a full install and restore the saved
data.
AP-Pro can use up to 2 disks with a partition of 8 GB each, a total of
18 GB. No more.
You can use IDE or SCSI tecnology with the same limitation.
If you need more than 18 GB of disk space, you need migrate to another
platform. No way out.
Bye
Sergio Perin