Re: forms registry path problems FORMS60_PATH

From: Frank van Bortel <fbortel_at_home.nl>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 19:43:26 GMT
Message-ID: <3A406258.63D8530B_at_home.nl>


What would be unsupported? This is "normal" behaviour for M$ products, as these are all dos compliant. dos did not have a registry, and after a registry was
introduced, the (documented) behaviour is still: - search environment settings
- if not found, search registry

Marc Billiet wrote:

> A possibility (though undocumented and therefore probably unsupported) is
> to start every application with another batch file (following example is
> for Forms 5, but I've tested it as well with Forms 6):
>
> _at_echo off
> echo Starting My Special Application...
> echo Parameter Initialization...
> SET APPBASEPATH=c:\my_app
> SET
> FORMS50_PATH=%APPBASEPATH%\FORMS\RUNTIME;%APPBASEPATH%\PLL;%APPBASEPATH%\MENU
> SET TK25_ICON=%APPBASEPATH%\ICONS
> SET REPORTS30_PATH=%APPBASEPATH%\REPORTS;%APPBASEPATH%\PLL
> SET FORMS50_DEFAULTFONT=Ms Sans Serif.10
> SET NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1
> REM 'START' needed for Windows NT
> START F50RUN32.EXE MODULE=LOGON userid=%2
>
> Marc
> >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Oorspronkelijk bericht <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
>
> Op 2000-12-09, 18:09:41, schreef "Jim Casarella" <casarellaj_at_monmouth.com>
> over het thema forms registry path problems FORMS60_PATH:
>
> > I have 11 applications on my server and each application has its own
 folder.
> > On my windows 95 PC I specified the paths in the registry (FORMS60_PATH).
> > The FORMS60_PATH value is becoming too long and my applications near the
> > end of the path are not running. After some testing it seams that the
> > registry entry will only reconize the first 170 - 180 characters.
 

> > Is there a way that I can solve this problem? Please help.

--
Gtrz,

Frank van Bortel
Received on Wed Dec 20 2000 - 20:43:26 CET

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