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Sys(2019) returns Empty String if config.fpw is in proje
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11/02/2003 12:13:18
 
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
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00751778
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Jim, wouldnt it be easiest if SYS(2019) could take a parameter to indicate which file info was being requested for. (Although I think its a really minor thing :)


>What if there's internal and external config files, which one should it return? Under these circumstances, it can read settings from both.
>
>>SNIP
>>>How do you think it should behave?
>>>
>>>Perhaps it should return the internal file if there is no ALLOWEXTERNAL = ON in the internal file, as there would be no possiblity of reading an external file.
>>
>>In other words, it should return the path/name of the CONFIG.FPW (equivalent) actually used, REGARDLESS of how/where it was specified and the empty string if none is used. I don't know why "ALLOWEXTERNAL" would even be a factor.
>>That's what I'd vote for.
>>
>>cheers
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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