At 11:04 PM 3/6/2002 +0000, garyrhaywood wrote:

>I think the configuration option you are referring to is
>EXTERNAL_FILE_DIRECTORY. This tells ib where to search but doesn't
>stop access when the path is provided.

Sorry, you're quite right. I've made this mistake before.
For reasons obscure, at some level I'm completely convinced
that EXTERNAL_FILE_DIRECTORY works like the UDF directory -
probably it should.


Regards,

Ann
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