>I have to deal with a WAN and well as individual LANs. First thing is that the directory structure is standardized and not subject to change. Even so, a good deal of relative pathing is used by my applications for obtaining data from other applications. However, in order to have some degree of security, users who don't require access to an application, can't "see" them.

WANs are probably the most difficult case to deal with, given the number of variables involved. I suspect my first choice would be to keep the application .exe on the network and use relative pathing, but if you have security concerns and Novell is your backbone, this may not be optimal.

>>I'm about mid-north side, and the Italian Beef idea sounds good to me :)

>I was wondering if there was any connection between "Ravenslake" and "Ravenswood". An Uno's deep dish would be good too :-)

Quite a connection, actually. I got tired of calling myself "D.M. Stowell Consulting", and I liked the variant on "Ravenswood". As for that pizza, Uno's is a stone's throw from where I'm typing right now... ;)