>>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
>How about going thru the dbc and strip out all the drive and dir paths and use a path statement in your CONFIG.FPW?

Larry,

I haven't really experimented with the .DBC. How would your solution effect Referential Integrity? Have you used this solution
with a similar situation?

Thanks,

Dan