Hi Matt,
In addition to Rob and Ed's points, there's an article showing how to do this that I had published in the December 1998 edition of FoxTalk. It's also available on my web site (
http://www.civilsolutions.com.au/publications)
Cheers,
Andrew
>Hi,
>
>I'm wondering if there is a way of returning, say,
>
>myserver//mydirectory/myfile.txt
>
>instead of :
>
>L:\mydirectory\myfile.txt
>
>My thinking is that there is way to do this, although perhaps not with getfile().
>
>The reason I want to do this is that I store the names [including paths] of files in a table. I'm concerned that users would only be able to view these files from my VFP application if they have identical drive mappings.
>
>Any ideas ?
>
>Best.
>
>Matt.
If we were to introduce Visual FoxBase+, would we be able to work from the dotNet Prompt?
From Top 22 Developer Responses to defects in Software
2. "It’s not a bug, it’s a feature."
1. "I thought I fixed that."
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