>>I am prepairing to distribute an application to our various offices. My supervisor would like the programs and screens etc. to run from the end users local drive while the data resides on the server. I originally created the project with the data in a "databases" directory under the program root. When I seperate these the DBC becomes invalid for all my tables. I put the path to the data in the set path statement and even tried to manulally open the server DBC using open database .... Nothing has worked so I am asking here.
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>What we do is we make separate installation setup: 1 for DBC/TABLES and one for programs to make it flexible.
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>VFP SETUP Wizard BTW is flexible enough to accomodate needs in distributing applications.

I'm sorry Jess. I believe I mislead you. I can distribute the files just fine but when I run them I get errors loadin the data environment of my forms. The DBC file can't find the data even though the correct path is in the set path statement.

It occured to me this morning that I might have put a copy of the DBC in my program directory and thus used it by mistakd. This could confuse the system conciderably. I am checking this out now and will let you know.

Thanks
Terry