Re: Development area?

Posted in 1994

Martin Andrews — Mon, 8 Aug 1994 12:43:21 GMT — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

Paul Eccleston (Paul@ecles.demon.co.uk) wrote: : Some background:- : We are using Informix 4gl version 4 on a IBM RS6000. We are also : using a stock control package in which the data files are C-ISAM : (ie we can access them with Informix). ... : Is there anyway that the database does not need to be specified until runtime? : We've attempted to set an enviroment variable called DATABASE and used the : following code in Informix:- : database "$DATABASE" I assume that you are using Informix-SE. While I am a bit rusty with that product, I believe that you can specify a base directory for databases in the environment variable "DBPATH" and then give relative paths from that directory. -- Martin Andrews andrewm@ccfadm.eeg.ccf.org Dept. of Neurology Phone (216)444-7485 Cleveland Clinic Foundation Fax (216)445-6617