HOWTO: Use Universal Naming Conventions (UNC) w/ Visual FoxPro

• Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows, versions 3.0, 5.0, 6.0

SUMMARY

This article describes the use of Universal Naming Convention (UNC) type path referencing with Visual FoxPro.

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When Visual FoxPro needs to resolve a path (for example with Use C:\Test.dbf), it passes the path to the operating system by using the appropriate API. The same procedure is used with UNC path referencing. Whether it works or not depends on the operating system. If you are running under a 32-bit Microsoft operating system like Windows 95 or Windows NT, direct UNC references will work. With a 16-bit operating environment, such as Windows 3.x, the operating system cannot resolve the UNC path by itself.

In general, with the exception of the SET DEFAULT and CD commands, any command that can take a fully qualified path in Visual FoxPro can support UNC.

There is no delay internal to Visual FoxPro caused by the use of UNC to reference files. There is no proven speed or reliability increase given by connecting a network drive to the server and using conventional reference methods.

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