>>I need to make an EXE and have my data on another drive.
>>I know where the data will be, so I can hard code it.
>>I want to have the EXE on my pc and the data on a network drive called e:\myprogram..
>>In my main.prg, do I just SET PATH TO E:\MYPROGRAM?
>>help
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>>help...
>I would set up a table for system information ...say SYSINFO.DBF and set up a standalone utility to modify the system parameters. Then in your app you could have something like...
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>USE SYSINFO
>SCATTER MEMVAR
>....
>STORE ALLTRIM(m.SYS_PATH) TO m.SYS_PATH
>SET PATH TO (m.SYS_PATH)
thanks Larry... I use to do this with mem vars.. Example.. SAVE AS and
RESTORE...I just thought there was a OOP vfp50 way of doing this that I
was not aware of..glad to see that all the things I remember from clipper
are not lost.