Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Deployment:
Startup Command and Parameter Reference

Client startup command syntax

These are the conventions used in command syntax descriptions:

command [ db-name ] [ parameter ] [ value ] ...

For example, you can use the following command to allow 100 users to access the sports database and then set values for the database connection, performance, and network parameters:

prowin32 -db sports -n 100 -B 30000 -L 1000 -S sprtsv -H sys27

Table 2–1 describes each command component.

Table 2–1: OpenEdge command components  

Component	Description
command	On UNIX, the command runs a script that executes an OpenEdge executable with appropriate parameters. In Windows, some commands run a batch file that executes an OpenEdge executable with appropriate parameters. Other commands run an OpenEdge executable directly.
db-name	Name of the database to which you want to connect.
parameter	Operating criteria for the command.
value	Numeric value or file specification for the parameter.

Observe the following conventions when entering a command:

On UNIX, commands are lowercase. In Windows, commands are not case sensitive.
On UNIX and Windows, enter parameters exactly as shown in the syntax descriptions.
On UNIX, values can be case sensitive; for example, UNIX filenames are case sensitive. In addition, in Windows using the NT File System (NTFS), values can be case sensitive. In Windows using the File Allocation Table (FAT or FAT32) file system, values are not case sensitive.