""Ann W. Harrison"" <aharrison@...> wrote in message
news:5.1.0.14.2.20020307101303.03e4a008@......

> 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.

If it's going to work the same way, there should be a default EXTERNAL
directory, same as the UDF dir, that's predefined and then one can add more
directories in the configuration file.
Or maybe a default external directory where the engine creates
subdirectories, each one with the name (not full path) of the database and
puts inside the external files for that db. This even leaves the gap open
for differents dbs with the same name in different directories, that would
map to the same subdir.

C.
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