Can I upgrade from NTWS5 while still using 4?

[Mike Grigsby]

I've got a stable system on 4, but want to start working with 5. Is it like FM where I can have multiple major versions on the same computer, without having to totally give up the previous building?

[Bruce]

alas no.
NetTalk 5 overrides NetTalk 4.

However, what we do a lot, is create multiple clarion environments.

eg something like this;
c:\clarion6ForFaswin
c:\Clarion6ForTNA
and so on
Then when you want to reuse it you rename it to
c:\clarion6
and you rename the existing clarion 6 to something else.

Actually we were 1 step further. we have a file server (although it could be your own machine) and on it are a dozen or so clarion environments, all in a clarion6 folder.
\faswin\clarion6, \tna4\clarion6 and so on.
We then share the parent folder as a network share.
so then if I map say K: to \faswin then k:\clarion6 is one environement. But if I map to \tna4 then I get a different environment.
Because we've set it up centrally each major product line here has it's own environment. Which means any of the programmers can use any environment to compile any product.

It's a bit of a pain re-mapping the drive all the time, but as a system it works really well.

Cheers
Bruce

[Mike Grigsby]

Thank you Bruce. I'll plot my course and order 5.