>>If you include that table into the project, the progarm should open it, I believe.
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>Yes, but that would make it read-only, and what would be the gain from just directly hard-coding the path in the EXE? The idea he has, of an INI or a DBF is so the path can be changed at some time - I guess by the user or admin, or at least that's how I read it.

Agree, but there is no other way to make program see the file if it is not in the path.