Re: data source

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From: Paul Franks
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 00:00

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In article <01bde583$511be120$86d705d1@ed.vaxxine.com>, 
coedred@vaxxine.com says...
> When working with the 5.5 version of visual db in Win3.11 I could change
> the location of the data to any computer in on the peer to peer network by
> changing the secondary path. I would just strip out the path in the query
> file and my forms would work just fine. I would like to do the same thing
> using the Win95 peer to peer capability but how do you change the sql at
> runtime to tell it where to fine the correct data that might be on another
> computer.
> 

Use BDE Aliases instead of logical paths.  If you're still using VdB5.x 
also map any UNC names to a logical drive letter.
-- 
Paul Franks (TeamB)

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