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From: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: INGRES - Switching databases at run time ???
Message-ID: <502@daitc.daitc.mil>
Date: 2 May 89 17:26:45 GMT
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Reply-To: jkrueger@daitc.daitc.mil (Jonathan Krueger)
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In article <8372@ihlpf.ATT.COM>, mohan@ihlpf (Mohan Palat) writes:

>The Winter/Spring 1989 issue of the INGRES Connection newletter [said
>that] any INGRES executable can be pointed to an arbitrary database
>by executing the command with the sytax "appcmd -d dbname"

Not without specific code in the application to parse the -d option
and implement it as specified.  I suspect that's what the writer
meant, but it sure isn't what the article stated.

-- Jon
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