Closes an application directory.

Syntax

RELEASE directoryname

Parameters

Comments

The RELEASE command closes the specified directory by removing it from the directory list, freeing the memory where the symbols defined in the directory were stored. Objects (and their data) belonging to the specified directory are no longer accessible.

Example

access DevDir update

access ProdDir read

add DevDir.Employees from ProdDir.Employees

add DevDir.Departments from ProdDir.Departments

add DevDir.Projects from ProdDir.Projects

release ProdDir

The preceding commands copy data from a production database to a development database, then close the production database so that subsequent commands are sure to affect only the development database.

See Also

$dirpath

ACCESS