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Setting the default database, registering or choosing which to use
Windows
mkdbase will create and register a database on a system. For databases where the directory tree has been copied from system to system use mkdbase with the "-R" option, which will register the specified database directory in its current location.
UNIX
Use netadmin to add an entry for networking purposes, however, there is no equivalent to Windows as a command line is always used for database login.
Default Database
On Windows use the netadmin host command and the "defaults option" to set a default database which will be used when users login via telnet or just run reality from a DOS command prompt. To access the non-default database at telnet login use the form user_id@database_name - where database_name is a registered database
On UNIX there is no default database, in that the database required has to be specified using the reality command or setup using the REALDBASE environment variable.
Note: Databases cannot be copied from one machine type to another.
