Running Aloha Refresh from Command Line

[smamark]

Does anyone know how to run the Aloha Refresh Data process from the command line? Is it possible?

Thanks...

 

[coorsman]

The Aloha 'refresh' software flag will only work in a supersite environment.

It may be possible to manually copy files to data from newdata if a stop file is copied to the tmp\directory but im not sure if it will update the terminals with the new data, worth a try I guess.

 

[99GuinnessLover]

Here is a good place to start. Try testing this. I have used this on a small scale.


CD\

@ECHO OFF

@CLS

ECHO ***REFRESHING THE ALOHA POS***
ECHO ***DO NOT CLOSE WINDOW***


CD BOOTDRV\ALOHA\TMP

ECHO>STOP

NET SESSION /DELETE /YES

START /b /MIN /WAIT %IBERDIR%\BIN\DBUP3.EXE /DBFONLY /DEBUG /DBFINPUT %IBERDIR%\NEWDATA /DBFOUTPUT %IBERDIR%\DATA


DEL C:\BOOTDRV\ALOHA\TMP\STOP.*


EXIT

 

[mmantion]

99GuinnessLover -- Is there an advantage to using DBUP3.exe instead of just coping the DBF files?

 

[smamark]

mmantion...great question! I was actually thinking the same thing. What is the advantage?

 

[99GuinnessLover]

It is probably not necessary. I was using it because it seemed a cleaner way to do it. It also gave me a forced pause to allow the terminals to all realize that there was a stop file present.

I cannot remember for sure but I think doing it this way updated all of the files in Data including aloha.ini and all .cfg files versus only updating the .dbf's.

 

[99GuinnessLover]

Scratch that, it does not update ALoha.ini or .cfg files.

 

[smamark]

Thanks for the help. I've written a process (4 batch files) that allow me to quickly/easily backup the current data, copy out updated files (pro.dbf, itm.dbf, cat/cit.dbf, etc.) to newdata, delete indexes, and then run a refresh. It makes it extremely easy to distribute menu updates.