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Conference ilbbak::ibi_focus

Title:FOCUS, from INFORMATION BUILDERS
Moderator:ZAYIUS::BROUILLETTE
Created:Thu Feb 19 1987
Last Modified:Mon May 05 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:615
Total number of notes:1779

213.0. "Tabletalk/IBI$FOCUS dir .MAS files" by TOLKIN::HOLLOCHER (The Children, They Were Learnin') Wed May 17 1989 10:50

    
    Hi
    
    We are currently running FOCUS 5.2.1
    
    I have found that when I call up Tabletalk every master file
    description in the IBI$FOCUS directory as well as those in my default
    directory are listed.  
    
    Is there any way to keep tabletalk from looking into the IBI$FOCUS
    directory? 
    
    Is there any strange reason why this is happening?  Some logical
    that I can over-ride?
    
    Note:  I have not set default to IBI$FOCUS or set any pointers to
           look in that area for .MAS files.
    
    Thank You for any help you can provide.
    
    ecurB
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213.1Define FOC$DIR1 logicalNRMLZE::ESTESMon May 22 1989 12:129
    I believe that Tabletalk looks at the logical FOC$DIR1 for the 
    masters that you can see.  Focus follows an internal list of
    logicals FOC$DIR1, FOC$DIR2, FOC$DIR3, FOC$DIR4 and finally 
    IBI$FOCUS to resolve requests for tables.
    
    We define FOC$DIR1 to the users login directory to isolate the 
    masters that s/he should see.
    
    Regards, Stu
213.2same problem...too many mastersJOSIE::JCURLEYWed May 24 1989 18:2330
    
    I'm having the same problem. I'm also running FOCUS VX5.2.1.
    
    I tried the following assignment statments and still got the same
    results as .0
    
    	$ assign/job disk:[directory] foc$dir1
    	$ assign/job disk:[directory] foc$dir2
    	$ assign/job disk:[directory] foc$dir3
    	$ assign/job disk:[directory] foc$dir4
    
    	TABLETALK still lists all of the masters in IBI$FOCUS.
    
     On the off-chance that the logicals needed to be in the process
     table I tried the following:
    
     
    	$ assign disk:[directory] foc$dir1
    	$ assign disk:[directory] foc$dir2
    	$ assign disk:[directory] foc$dir3
    	$ assign disk:[directory] foc$dir4
    
    
    Still no luck.
    
    
    Any suggestions ?
    
    
    -joanne
213.3Move the .MAS filesILO::MCKNIGHTWe were the last romanticsThu May 25 1989 08:4611
Hello Joanne,

	One way to get around this, is to just create a new directory and copy
all the .MAS files to IB$FOCUS directory. You can reference this directory 
when you need to using FOC$DIR1 etc. You cannot stop FOCUS looking in 
IBI$FOCUS - it's part of it's search list.


Rgds

Michael