True enough, but I am kind of hoping to tease some indication of the "official" Foxboro position on this from one of our Foxboro colleagues. Regards, William C Ricker FeedForward, Inc. -----Original Message----- From: foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:foxboro-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Doucet, Terrence Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 6:06 PM To: foxboro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: [foxboro] FV DMNAME objects smurfing William, a) The AW70 does not support the \etc\fox\user_apps.dat function. There are some files located in the directory but you cannot execute anything from these files on boot up of the AW70. I have not tested the Server 70 but I suspect - no, it does not support the user_apps.dat function. b) the \usr\fox\bin\fox_apps.dat is the method for starting custom applications. Since this also starts the Foxboro apps, care is required to ensure OM and FoxAPI and other apps are (100%) started before you application gets started otherwise some of your calls might fail. The other thing to consider is to save this custom file in event that a Foxboro release upgrade over-writes the file. Regards, Terry So, a) does the user_apps.dat function exist on 70 series stations? and, b) if not, what is the preferred method of starting custom apps on an AW70 ? Regards, William C Ricker _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave _______________________________________________________________________ This mailing list is neither sponsored nor endorsed by Invensys Process Systems (formerly The Foxboro Company). Use the info you obtain here at your own risks. Read http://www.thecassandraproject.org/disclaimer.html foxboro mailing list: //www.freelists.org/list/foxboro to subscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=join to unsubscribe: mailto:foxboro-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=leave