[AccessD] Read External File for Path String

Dan Waters wrote:

>Hello Everyone,
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>I just spent half the day struggling with the movement of a system from one
>server to another.  The server path is hardcoded in one place in a startup
>form.  What would have helped me a lot is to have the path in a text file or
>ini file external to the database and stored in the same folder.
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>Security is not an issue here, just my convenience, as my plans for the day
>were pretty much blown up!
>
>Using a file for information like this sounds like it might be a fairly
>typical solution.  Does anyone do this or something like it?
>
>Thanks!
>Dan Waters
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I have used ini files on occasions to store the location of a back-end 
database with the ini file stored in the same directory as FE.  I will 
look for some of the code tomorrow at work.