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- From: hagstrop@oberon.mathcs.carleton.edu (Paul Hagstrom)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.databases
- Subject: Re: Network error with FoxBASE+/Mac
- Message-ID: <l97hlcINN31h@news.bbn.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 16:22:04 GMT
- References: <1992Aug20.141525.17420@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug20.141525.17420@midway.uchicago.edu>
- ejw1@kimbark.uchicago.edu (Eric Weidl) writes:
- > >USE MacKeegan->FoxVOTE->bc_voter.dbf INDEX
- Mackeegan->FoxVOTE->bc_precinc.dbf
- > Am I missing something here? I've never seen a path use the '->' symbol.
- > Apparently Fox is passing it on to the File Manager, who responds with the
- > -50 error. Try:
- > USE MacKeegan:FoxVOTE:bc_voter.dbf
- >
- > >I hope to go multi-user with my application, but if it can't communicate
- > >over the Appletalk Network I guess I can save $399 and not buy the
- > >multi-user version.
- >
-
- Another thing to try would be using the SET VOLUME command, which lets you
- designate a folder as a "drive" and then you can read files out of it in a sort
- of MS-DOS format. I don't have the manual in front of me, but I believe that
- the format is something like
-
- SET VOLUME C TO "MacKeegan:FoxVOTE"
- USE "C:bc_voted.dbf" INDEX "C:bc_precinc.idx"
-
- At any rate, it's close to that, and it should give you enough to go on in a
- manual search.. It sounds approximately like what you want to..
- --
- schmotsignature.
- Paul Hagstrom
- (hagstrop@carleton.edu)
-