>>>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 :( )
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>I define a constant in my application header file so if things change on the server, I only have to change in 1 place, then recompile.
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>#DEFINE UNC_DATA_PATH \\Server1\Vol2:Apps\MyApp
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>Using UNC is really no different than an actual drive letter and path except you save a mapping drive letter, and you are FREE of drive mapping bondage.

Wont it make your path statement fairly long and is there not a limit to th length of the set path to statement. E.G. L:\ becomes \\402fs1\data2