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Date:      Tue, 24 Feb 1998 15:11:11 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Brendon Meyer <Brendon_Meyer@fmi.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" <freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Running SCO filePro 4.x under FreeBSD 2.2.5 
Message-ID:  <199802242311.PAA16930@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 25 Feb 1998 09:01:53 %2B1000." <34F35160.8FB9A05E@fmi.com> 

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> 
> What I have been trying to do is to get filePro
> 4.1 SCO UNIX binaries running under FreeBSD 2.2.5
> and have run into a minor "snag" which I am not
> sure is fixable or circumventable or not.
> 
> The binaries used are SCO COFF format (result of a
> "file" on them shows "80386 COFF executable").
> 
> What happens when we run any of the "report" or
> "clerk" series of executables (both "d" and "r"
> series) what happens is filePro immediately comes
> up with the error:
> 
>     "Too Many Users"
> 
> Which is the filePro error message that controls
> if the application has exceeded it's license
> limit.  Obviously in this case, there are *no*
> other users running it so what causes it?

Sounds like the license mechanism is failing.  How does it work?

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