Hi Ransome,

if you don't have to change any data within your tables (=readonly) you can compile them into your app/exe and VFP should find its tables. But usually you use a database for working and manipulating its data ;-).
IMHO you should be able to handle different places for your DBC by design. You don't know, where your app will run and if your DBC won't grow out of space on its first/current location.

However, as I don't use VFP-DB by default, just Informix/PostgreSQL via ODBC, I can't answer your question if VFP9 can handle your kind of project handling. But as your app asks for the DBC-path it seems to me, that it can't.

>Dear Thomas,
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>Thank for your help.
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>In the past, I don't need to bother the absolute address of the DBC. It just need to not change the relative address of the tables to the exe file. The habit is that I make folder FILE to house the exe, ico, dll files and folder DBF to house the tables and the two folders are placed in the project folder.
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>Is there true that in VFP9.0 I can't do so ??
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>Regards,
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>Ransome