>Well not necessarily. Drive Mapping is much faster than UNC lookups because UNCs are looked up over and over again, so there's more overhead. This may or may not matter much...
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>If you're not logged on as Interactive the user's drive mappings won't show up, but you can use a couple of WinApi calls to set up your own drive mappings in the current session as part of the startup routine.

I open all the DBFs at once. This is the only place where I use that syntax. So far, I haven't observed any downsize.