Peter,

> Hmmm, yes you are right, but what if you local machine goes down while an
> update is occurring, would you say the same consequence would occur? I am
> getting the impression from the responses that this limitation is by

design

> because it is the feeling that this type of setup is considered [possibly]
> unstable. I am in the position of having to explain to the company I'm
> dealing with why they cannot have this type of access to the DB file. What
> has been requested is the same type of access to the DB file that the

server

> version gives, but use the embedded version (because of it's simplicity in
> installation).

The normal client install is about as simple as it gets.

Have you ever had a look at it? :-)

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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