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Wanting to go from Drive Letter to UNC any advice
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Visual FoxPro
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>>I am at the point in my application development that I want to use Universal Naming Conventions versus drive letters for our Novell VFP system.
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>Hi Bret,
>We're in the middle of doing the same thing (with VFP 5.0a apps) and 2 things I see we could of done better:
>1. Get the network administrator involved so that he was aware of what we were changing and knew enough to let us know when he moved Novell volumes around.
>2. Do all the revisions *then* update the production app all at once. (We were just fixing mapped drive references as we found them, then the network structure changed, and now we don't where we fixed that needs unfixed :( )

Thanks Roxanne, one thing I have learned in my years of programming is to keep in close contact with the Network guys (buy them Christmas presents, Birthday Presents, know their kids names, etc..) it makes my life easier when I am developing an application.
Bret Hobbs

"We'd have been called juvenile delinquents only our neighborhood couldn't afford a sociologist." Bob Hope
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