Wouldn't checking the drive letter accomplish what you want? Anything but C would indicate a rogue shortcut.
Michael J. Babcock, MCP wrote: > We encountered a situation where a client in the field had their shortcut > pointing to the EXE on the server, and hence was running in a way we > didn't want. We wanted them to run the version on their local hard disk. > > I haven't run EXEs on servers since 1999. Since then, I've used a loader > to copy the EXE locally and run it there. > > Would SYS(5) show me that it's running from the LAN instead of the local > disk? It'd be great if all I had to do was DRIVETYPE(SYS(5)) and fire a > messagebox if the resulting value was not 3. > > I know there's many (?) devs here who run from the server yet, so I was > hoping you could easily/quickly tell me rather than me having to build > some silly test EXE and deploy run from the LAN here at Sylvan. > > Tia! > --Michael > -- Richard Kaye Vice President Artfact/RFC Systems Voice: 617.219.1038 Fax: 617.219.1001 For the fastest response time, please send your support queries to: Technical Support - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australian Support - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Internet Support - [EMAIL PROTECTED] All Other Requests - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- This message has been checked for viruses before sending. --------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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.
