Starting ViewTouch: runonce, vtpos, Directories & Files

The command to run ViewTouch the first time is /usr/viewtouch/bin/vtpos The command to run ViewTouch after the first time is /usr/viewtouch/bin/runonce

These 5 files are created automatically in /usr/viewtouch/dat/ the first time vtpos runs.

• error_log.txt
• media-archive.dat
• .restart_flag
• settings-archives.dat
• settings.dat

These 14 directories and 2 files are created automatically in /usr/viewtouch/dat/ the first time runonce runs.

• /accounts/
• /archive/
• /backups/
• /current/
• /customers/
• /expenses/
• /html/
• /labor/
• /languages/
• /pageexports/
• /pageimports/
• /stock/
• /text/
• /updates/
• debuglog
• runlog

These directories must exist in /usr/viewtouch

• bin
• css
• dat
• graphics

These directories should exist in /usr/viewtouch/dat/ and should be created if they do not exist.

• /conf/
• /screensaver/

These files at http://www.viewtouch.com/vt_data.html should be downloaded.

• fastfood.ini fees.ini tax.ini
• exception.dat
• locale.dat

These files are needed and their initial state must be downloaded.

• vt_data
• tables.dat
• menu.dat
• zone_db.dat

curl http://www.viewtouch.com/vt_data -o /usr/viewtouch/bin/vt_data curl http://www.viewtouch.com/tables.dat -o /usr/viewtouch/dat/tables.dat curl http://www.viewtouch.com/menu.dat -o /usr/viewtouch/dat/menu.dat curl http://www.viewtouch.com/zone_db.dat -o /usr/viewtouch/dat/zone_db.dat

These files are automatically created during the use of the program if needed.

• cdustrings.dat
• employee.dat
• exception.dat
• inventory.dat
• media.dat

All .dat files have two backups, .dat.bak and .dat.bak2