>> I'm fairly new to VFP 5.0, and it's distribution. One advantage to network
>> location seems to be that it can not be upgraded unless all users are off
>> line. If your distribution affects how the users access data, like a
>> structure change, this is good. If distributing locally, a well planned
>> distribution is required. Is this true ?
>
>the way we see it there are 2 kinds of updates
>-ones that require an immidiate update by al users
>-... and ones that don't
>
>for the 2nd kind - we check when the app loads and then do a change (this is easy if the
>main exe calls the actuall module when it
>runs)
>for the 1st kind we used a timer that will let the sysadmin shut down the users (and
>other stuff (s))
>then when they reload the app scenario 1 occures
>
>Arnon

If I understand you correctly, then the main exe is really a loader, that never changes, and it calls the actual app ?