UNC paths.
open data "\myserver\my share with spaces in the name\mydatabase.dbc"
use mytable
and so forth.
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Alan Bourke
alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Fri, 7 Dec 2018, at 1:56 PM, Ted Roche wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 3:10 AM Alan Bourke
alanpbourke@fastmail.fm wrote:
>
> >
> > There's absolutely no reason to use mapped drives in this day and age.
> >
>
> What is the current best practice for accessing shared DBFs on a server?
>
>
>
> > But it's one of a few ridiculous issues in 1803 and 1809, my favourite is
> > the file association mechanism being broken in some cases, for example I
> > like to have .TXT and .CSV open with Notepad++ (what lunatic would use
> > Excel for CSV files?) but 1803 says noooo ...
> >
>
> Yeah, that's dumb, too.
>
>
> --
> Ted Roche
> Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
>
http://www.tedroche.com
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