I'm using VFP 7.0 SP1, I also have VFP 6.0 SP5 installed on the same machine. We have a medium sized network with a couple Novell, NT and Linux servers each.

In my main programs I normally set the default drive and directory to the development directory and server. I then set the file search path to the test server where the data is stored. That way I can run a main program directly from the command prompt without having to compile an *.exe between each change.

Here's my problem. All of a sudden VFP 7.0 does not like the fact that I'm putting a backslash infront of my sub-directory when I go to open a table. It doesn't matter what server I try this on, none of them work like it did a couple days ago.

Let me try to explain better:

{DOESN'T WORK IN 7.0}
SET DEFA TO I:\Development
SET PATH TO C:
USE \ TEMP \ MYTABLE.DBF (TABLE IS LOCATED ON C:\TEMP)

{WORKS IN 7.0}
SET DEFA TO I:\Development
SET PATH TO C:
USE TEMP \ MYTABLE.DBF

I think it has something to do with my machine, because I just started getting this behavior in the last couple days. It's very frustrating because I can't run any of my programs in VFP 7.0, they all have that same pathing code in the main programs. There are too many occurences of opening tables with a backslash to change them all. I've tried to uninstall VFP and reinstall VFP 7.0 twice, nothing worked.

What's really strange is that both scenarios still work in VFP 6.0 just fine.

Has anyone seen this behavior before?

TIA,