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From: "Danny Bull" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] External Exhibits
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 09:26:17 GMT


Dennis Davenport wrote:


>I have a laptop with the cd rom as the D drive. My PC has its CD Writer as
>the G drive. Obviously, my reference to an external exhibit in my data set
>will not work for both machines. Is there any magical way to make the
>reference work on both machines without keeping 2 separate data sets (one
>for each machine)? Do I need to reference the same exhibit twice in my
>data
>setonce to the D drive and once to the G drive? Is that my only choice?

I don't think there's a magical way! You could do as you say and reference
the same exhibit twice. However I think that could be confusing and
difficult to maintain.

My solution would be to put all your exhibits into a sub-folder (or
sub-folders) of your data-set on the PC's hard drive. As long as you use the
same folder structure (eg c:/tmgw/mydata) on each machine you should have no
problem. This has the added benefit of keeping all your information in one
place (important for data integrity).

I realise there might be issues regarding disk space here, but I can't think
of any other solution.

Danny
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