Progress
Installation and Configuration Guide
Version 9
for Windows
Starting Applications On a Network
In general, you can start a Progress application on a network by following these steps:
Starting Network Brokers and Servers
You can start most network brokers and servers using either the Progress Explorer (available for Windows systems only) or the PROSERVE command for your database server machine. To use the Progress Explorer, double-click the Progress Explorer icon and follow the directions in the online help for starting brokers and servers. See "Administration Utilities," for more information about starting the Progress Explorer.
Alternatively, on Windows and UNIX systems you can enter the following command to start brokers for two databases (sports and news) using the TCP network type:
Starting TCP/IP Clients On Windows
You can start most network clients using the
MPRO
command for your application workstation. You can do this either by modifying the Client properties or by entering a command at the command line.To modify the Client icon, display the properties and modify the shortcut target. See "The Progress Program Group," for more information on modifying icon properties. Modify the shortcut target with the following parameters to start a client application named
spapp.p
for two databases (sports and news) managed on a host nameddbmach
using the TCP network type:
To use the command line on Windows systems, enter the following command to start a client application named
spapp.p
for two databases (sports and news) managed on a host nameddbmach
using the TCP network type:
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