Thanks Mike

thats interesting. SO it is accepted that an exe is best placed on the local machine. Plus any local files created etc ?

Nick Mason




>Hi Nicholas
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>It was message 982490.
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>>Mike
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>>I'm interested in that posting.
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>>Could you report it here ?
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>>I'm at a site which has many exe's some of which get copied to a local PC by a starter application and some don't. I was wondering if there was a best practise I should follow.
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>>Nick Mason
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>>>I just recently posted something demonstrating it is a constant performance problem to have multiple users share one exe/app. Don't trouble yourself with sharing anything except the data, which is all the absolutely must be shared. ;)
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>>>>A programmer with whom I have an acquaintance has been unsuccessfully trying to allow multiple users to access one APP file on the local area network. I went in this weekend and set things up differently, compiled to an EXE and set it up where the users will execute the program from their own PC's.
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>>>>Does this have to do with threading?
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>>>>Cecil