>>I have a FoxProw 2.6 application I am converting to VFP 5.0.
>>FoxProw 2.6 application runs under Win 3.11 or Win 95 on Novell.
>>
>>The FoxProw 2.6 application allows people to "check out" files to
>>work on on their laptops.
>>
>>Rather than have two different applications, one for running on the
>>'network' and one to run on 'local' (laptop) computers I have the
>>application determine if there is a network attached to the computer.
>>
>>In the FoxProw 2.6 application the following has always worked:
>>
>>glNetwork = adir("aadir","f:\*.*","D") > 0
>>
>>etc...

>
>Don,
>
>You could probably do something like this:
>
>FUNCTION Is_Net
>
>DECLARE INTEGER GetLogicalDrives IN Win32API
>DECLARE INTEGER GetDriveType IN Win32API;
> STRING lcdrive
>LOCAL lndrivemap, llresult, lni, lcdrive, lndrivetype
>lndrivemap = GetLogicalDrives()
>llresult = .F.
>* Start with D:
>lni = 2
>DO WHILE lni < 31 AND NOT llresult
> lni = lni + 1
> IF BITTEST(lndrivemap, lni)
> lcdrive = CHR(65 + lni) + ":\:
> lndrivetype = GetDriveType(lcdrive)
> llresult = (lndrivetype = 4)
> ENDIF
>ENDDO
>RETURN llresult

George,

Thank you. It worked quite well.

Don
>
>That will tell you whether or not a net is present without generating any error messages. Side note, FOXTOOLS has a function called DriveType that's a hook into GetDriveType. You pass it the same parameters and it returns the same values.
>
>hth,
>
>George