UNC paths. use \\myserver\myshare\mytable.dbf
open data "\\myserver\my share with spaces in the name\mydatabase.dbc" use mytable and so forth. -- 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/1544196405.219983.1602168096.64ee8...@webmail.messagingengine.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
