Subject Re: Adapting InitNewUser.prg for own application
From Pieter van Heerden <psvh@mweb.co.za>
Date Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:19:08 -0400
Newsgroups dbase.getting-started

Pieter van Heerden Wrote:

> I am not quite sure how to adapt the InintNewUser.prg and related files for my application.  Take the following scenario:
>
> 1.  Application name: "Sapwat3", will run as application on both 32-bit and 64-bit computers.
> 2.  Operating systems to run under: Windows XP through Windows 8, no foreknowledge and/or control over who will use the application and under what system it will be run (this also has an implication for how manifest files will be handled).
> 3.  No sub-directories under the application directory.
> 4.  Database alias and path:
>     - "sapwat"; c:\sapwat3\tables
>     - "sapwatweather"; c:\sapwat3\tables\weatherdata
>     - "sapwatdwb+; c:\sapwat3\tables\sapwatdwb
> .
I was hoping to get some response to this.  In the dBase book (Vol 2 p 225-226), Ken says that the program should be altered to suit one's own application.  I am not too sure how to go about it, therefore my request for assistance.