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==== Copying entire account to new account in AREV 2.12 (AREV Specific) ====
=== At 21 APR 2000 05:02:32PM Larry Tripp wrote: ===
 
{{tag>"AREV Specific"}}
 
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I can't find this in my books, and I am trying to figure out how to copy an entire account with all its files, to a new one.  I just want to copy the old account and then paste it some how creating a new account, that is identical to the old one, while leaving the old one intact, and allowing me to mess with the new one, without hurting the old, if that makes any sense. Sorry if this is vauge.
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=== At 21 APR 2000 09:14PM Steve Smith wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>There is no easy way to rename all the files in an account, or to duplicate them into a new account. 



What is often done is to attach all the volumes using relative pathnames. So C:\AREV\VOLUME is replaced with \AREV\VOLUME wherever referenced. You can then move the application to another drive into the \AREV path to mess around with.



You could shift everything in the \AREV path (which we'll pretend is the current application path) into an \AREV2 path using



XCOPY \AREV\*.* \AREV2\*.* /S /E



then change the volume pointers to \AREV2\ accordingly.



All this is possible providing you are not in breach of 

licensing terms re copies of AREV.EXE and numbers of users.

I'm assuming this is only a temporary installation for

testing or maintenance purposes.



You can examine the FILES file or the SYSTABLES file (depending on your arev version) and use LISTVOLUMES to ensure that the attached paths are different between each copy of the application.



Ensure all users are logged out, and take backups prior to the move.



Steve













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=== At 24 APR 2000 01:23AM Ray Blackwell wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>Larry,



This process can be accomplished quite simply using Rbasic programming. As Steve said providing you are not in violation of the license agreement there is no problem.



Email me if you need some more details.



Ray,



blackers@world-net.co.nz



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