>Well Dragan,
>In fact we all choose one of them fitting to our case. Free tables, DBC, views, multiple dirs, remote views, keeping parts on local etc. So many confusing strategies. I wouldn't say one of them is best, varies by app.

So we've agreed on this. For me, it'll, of course, be the best to write it scalable, so we can choose strategy at least at build time, if not at install time. I've just tried to copy a DBC and its files into a subdirectory, and they all open nice; so all I need is to expand my DBC update routine to cover subdirectories. Quite possible I won't even need empty master tables.

>I wanted to say "I could believe what an X-ray would do to BNC", I'm writing heavily medical apps and building the networks there too. The worse is new rotation assistants, who know nothing about the system but work with it starting at day one. I could write "fool proof software" but couldn't find a way to build a network that is "fool proof" yet (no power buttons, diskette drives resistant to screwdrivers, cables and connectors resistant to pulling, cutting etc - maybe "virtual reality" one day).
>Cetin

:)

"new rotation assistants" seems to be what we here call "big white birds (not swans)".

Talking about medical staff, I've had night shift surgeons regularly plugging off the BNCs, because they thought it will switch them off so they don't have to type in what they do. This actually broke down the connections for other three machines in the building. Luckily they didn't bring everything down - I've had a team who took care of the network hardware. Guess I was a bit better off than you.

Screwdriver in the floppy drive is an urban legend - I have heard so many people mention it as an example of what an inventive user may do to a machine, but never ever heard it really happen. I've heard of someone putting a floppy wrong way, inserting two floppies at once, and putting an apple stalk (so we decided the floppy is not Mac compatible). My addition to this list is cheese formatting - we've found some molten cheese, in a 3' cellophane packing, roughly floppy sized, and put it into a drive, and issued "Format b:". It tried for a couple of seconds, and then said "track 0 bad - unusable", which was wrong, because formatted cheese actually tastes better.

Don't do this at home :)