>How should different data paths be handled in Visual FoxPro 5?
>
>My department has a Marketing Information and Planning application written in FoxPro for Windows 2.6a.
>Our tables are located on the network for most of our users. However, our executive staff has laptops
>that are removed from the network whenever they want to work out of the office. In this situation, they
>copy the necessary tables to their laptop's hard disk before the undock from the network. This application
>is also on the computers in our field offices.
>
>In FPW 2.6 we have a data path variable pointing to our data. It can be different for development mode,
>networked mode and standalone mode. Since the database path is "hardcoded" into the .DBC in VFP5, how
>should the three modes be handled?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dan Rhymes

Dan,

In VFP 5.0 you can create an off line view. This was designed specifically for situations like this.

George