I have a client application that gets updated from an server admin application. The admin app creates a new xml document containing the changes and places it in a folder on the server.

When a client app fires up it checks to see if the xml document exists and if so makes the necessary updates.

At the moment I have set a #define constant to point to the server folder - however what I really would like to be able to do is look at a server environment variable or something like that to find the folder name.

Thus if the admin app moves where it places the document, I don't have to change my #define and recompile my client app. I could use a dbf and store the folder path - but any change would mean updating all the client dbfs.

Any help gratefully received

Regards

Anna Clements