<div dir="ltr">Good morning Jolyon,<div><br></div><div>I guess everyone has a view about what is the right/best way. Not everyone is selling something. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>May I ask what is your right/best way?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div>Leigh</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 July 2015 at 09:21, Jolyon Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jsmith@deltics.co.nz" target="_blank">jsmith@deltics.co.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">What data is in the INI ? How much data ? What type of data ? How is it used ? How would machines be identified in a database solution ? By name or network ID ? If by name, what happens if a machine name is changed ?<br><br>"Database" or "file" are simply different technologies that could be used in an implementation. But technology alone rarely identifies the right (or "best") way. Anyone that says otherwise is selling something. ;)<br><br>imho</div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 July 2015 at 08:59, Leigh Wanstead <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leigh.wanstead@gmail.com" target="_blank">leigh.wanstead@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Jeremy,<div><br></div><div>I think that your idea about <span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">dropping the INI and transferring the settings to a database with a row for each machine that connects is the correct way to do that.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Regards</span></div><span><font color="#888888"><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px">Leigh</span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span></div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span>On 8 July 2015 at 21:58, Jeremy Coulter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jscoulter@gmail.com" target="_blank">jscoulter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div dir="ltr">Hi All.<div>I have an app that I will be running from a server location. However, I want the app. to read an ini file that is located in a folder on a client machine.</div><div>A Shortcut to the app on the server and the ini file will live in a folder on the client machine, but I cant work out how to get the app, when its run via the shortcut, to read the ini file on the client machine.</div><div>Anyone know how to go about doing this?</div><div>I have thought about dropping the INI and transferring the settings to a database with a row for each machine that connects, but before I get that carried away, I just wanted to see if someone had any ideas to do the above with the ini file.</div><div>The reason I want an ini for each computer is about settings. Not all machines have the same settings etc.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, Jeremy</div></div>
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