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"jo" <fitgirl99@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> questions:
> 1) What is a session? Is this just another component and if so where and
how
> should I use it?

It is a component. If you haven't added one explicitly one is created for
you. See the help for tSession.

> 2) how do i know which shared directories my host's network will have?

This is something that is typically decided at install time.

> 3) Is this where the database tables should be? There is a 'database'
screen
> on the installshield express program, can i use that to get the
installation
> file to save my database tables to a shared drive? Is it then possible to
> 'know' where that drive was and use the information somehow?

IIRC the NetFileDir should not be the same one as the one in which your db
tables are stored. But I haven't noticed any problems when it is the same. I
don't use InstallShield so I don't know how one goes about doing it with
that tool, but you need to ask the user where to store the db tables and put
the tables there.

> 4) is this the same as i can see in the BDE administrator? I have read
thet
> the settings for netfiledir are not limited to an alias but change the
> setting for all applications that may use the BDE, is this true? Can that
> cause problems with other apps?

Yes, if they use Paradox tables. AFAIK all Paradox apps have to have the
same NetFileDir.

> Questions:
> 1) if i set local share to true on the machine I am using to build the
app,
> will installshield pick up on this and will the subsequent install file
set
> local share to true or must I set this at run time?

No. Typically the LocalShare setting is set at time of installation.

>
> The borland tech artical says:
> If the tables that are being used are Paradox, there must
> also be a directory used for network control.  This

> How do these directories relate to what is said in first paragraph? I
> thought the tables needed to be in the same dir as netfiledir?

See my answer above.

Check out my previous post about setting DiscardCacheOnOpen in Win 95/98
registries.