At 1:42 PM -0400 6/20/00, James B. Byrne wrote:
>Is there any way of getting software to look for a database via some
>sort of MPE re-direction?  We are testing some new changes to our
>PowerHouse applications and our dictionaries are all compiled with
>the database file set to xxxx.data.
>
>Our testdata resides in the group testdata.  I would like to have the
>existing compiled applications reference the test data without having
>to re-compile them all into a special group using a special
>dictionary.


You should be able to set a file equation for the root file of the
database. Something like ":file mydb.data=mydb.testdata". When you have the
root file equated to a different location, then all of the other files
associated with the database are "magically equated" as well.

This will work as long as the software that opens the image database wasn't
written to explicitly ignore file equations. If it was, then you have a bit
of work ahead of you...


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