progress-4gl Getting started with progress-4gl Setting up the environment

Example

Linux/Unix

Once you have Progress installed it's very easy to run.

You only need a couple of environment variables. The directory where Progress was installed (default /usr/dlc but can be something else) needs to be in the DLC-variable

DLC=/usr/dlc

And you might also want the "bin" subdirectory of DLC in your PATH:

PATH=$PATH:$DLC/bin

Now you're set!

Theres also a script installed called proenv that will do this (and a little bit more) for you. It's default location is /usr/dlc/bin/proenv.

Some utilites:

showcfg

This will list all your installed products.

pro

This will start the "Procedure Editor" where you can edit and run your programs.

pro program.p

Will open program.p for editing if it exists. Otherwise an error will be displayed.

pro -p program.p

This will run "program.p". If there's a compiled file (program.r) present it will be run, otherwise it will be temporarily compiled and after that executed. The compiled file will not be saved.