I believe it's just for Notes

HCL Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Notes Traveler)

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It's interesting that you have some clients that don't have that line since it's added during initial installation/setup. Maybe someone in the past has "broken down" the workstation by editing the notes.ini so they could do the setup again without doing a full reinstall. It's a quick way of changing the "identity" of a workstation. Usually when you do that you leave in the notesprogram= line but I suppose if the path on the workstation includes the Notes program directory it may not need the notesprogram=. If you were in an inquisitive mood you could check the paths on the systems that don't have notesprogram= and see if it includes the program directory.

The other thing the notesprogram= and directory= can be used for is when the location or drive mapping of the target files changes. I've often changed directory= when I've added a larger drive to a system and wanted to use it for the Notes data directory. I haven't edited notesprogram= when the mapping of the program files changed but it's described here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.help.domino.admin.doc/DOC/H_MOVING_A_DOMINO_SERVER_FROM_ONE_COMPUTER_TO_ANOTHER.html

Anyway, as far as I know the only purpose of notesporgram= is to point to the Notes program files.

Feedback response number WEBB8AFSYK created by ~Anita Quetkrotex on 10/21/2010