Thanks to Jim and Pat for your responses on this issue.
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At 09:48 AM 5/8/2001 -0700, Pat wrote:
>http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,289893,sid9_gci214159,00.html
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At 01:13 PM 5/8/2001 -0400, Jim wrote:
>Bernie
>
>It's actually called Uniform Naming Convention in a lot of circles.. It
>means instead of having a path/drive predefined as K:\databases\mydb.rb1
>and K would have to be mapped on a machine, you could use
>"\\server1\databases\mydb.rb1" in calls etc... I ran into this problem
>just yesterday.. I was creating a shortcut to Rbase on a Win2000 machine
>and it was using a path for the Start In property that was defined as a
>UNC like \\SERV2\RBTI\RBWIN and I had to change it to K:\blah blah and
>create the Mapping to get RBase to work correctly..
>
>At least this is what I done to get it to work... I'm not sure if it was
>the mapping of K:... or the Start In path that fixed the problem... I
>was getting a Unable to Connect to Database error..
>
>Hope this helps
>Jim Limburg
>
>
>Bernie Corrigan wrote:
>>
>> That's great. Could someone please enlighten those of us, who have never
>> heard of it, just as to what Universal Naming Convention is or point us at a
>> web site that carries a definition.
>>
>> TIA,
>> Bernie
>> ______________________________________
>> At 03:19 AM 5/8/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>> >
>> >May 8, 2001
>> >
>> >Folks,
>> >
>> >I'm very pleased to announce that the upcoming upgrade version
>> >of The Glorious R:BASE 2000 (ver 6.5++) for Windows, currently
>> >under final beta, will include the support for Universal Naming
>> >Convention (UNC)!
>> >
>> >I would like to take this opportunity to thank all dedicated
>> >beta testers, especially, Neil Smith from Aspen Software, UK,
>> >to work with our R:Team and fully test the UNC functionality
>> >in R:BASE 2000 (ver 6.5++) for Windows.
>> >
>> >Neil, THANKS for all your time and efforts! Your dedication
>> >is greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> >Stay tuned for more details and technical specifications ...
>> >
>> >Very Best Regards,
>> >
>> >Razzak.
>> >
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