Thanks Devcon was a thriller :) VFP8 maybe is the best version so far.
I think I warned you serial reading routines wouldn't work on networked drives. I don't know if there is a way to get remote drive serial numbers using DOS interrupts.
Cetin

>Hi Cetin
>
>How was your DevCon? Looks like everybody is happy with VFP8.
>
>Sorry to be troubling you again but I seem to have run into a problem with serial.bin I will be glad if you can help me with it. The problem goes:
>
>I have tried this on a standalone manner and it is very well. But on a LAN environment where I have mapped the server C drive as say for eg. E: the following failed from the node:
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>E:
>CD\app
>FOXR readsrno.prg (which in turn call serial.bin)
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>here serial.bin returns a blank instead of 4 characters.
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>But if I shift to the server and...
>C:
>CD\app
>FOXR readsrno.prg
>
>here serial.bin returns the right value.
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>On the same machine but between drive partitions like C: and D: on the same machine is working well.
>
>Please help.