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I have been reading up on the latest Microsoft server operating system which has a 'Lite' version for about $350 (no SQL etc). This would appear allow me to put my msaccess client mdb's and database mdb on the server and use a web browser program to 'thin net' onto the server with multiple users...

Thanks for your advice which I will now set up. Just one thing when I go into Debug it says Compile db2 where db2 is apparently the project name. I think this was the original name that msaccess 2003 allocated to the mdb file which I have since renamed to RTI.mdb. Does this matter ?

I started as a data control clerk and when we got an IBM 360/25 I became an operator for a couple of years. The company then retrained me as a Cobol programmer. Did a bit of RPG along the way and a new language which IBM meant to replace Cobol called PL/1 but it never really took off. It...

1962 wow. That must have been a tabulator with patch panel circuit board. When was the IBM 360 series first released ?

Have any members experienced this happening. You change some code in a main module function. Then when you step through it in debug it starts jumping lines of code and going to called routines that you have just changed the code to stop it doing. Clicking on a variable to see the value produces...

I have been a programmer since the early 1970's which is most probably long before most of you were born. In those days we wrote programs in pencil on coding sheets and punch card girls would create 'punch cards' from the coding sheets which would be fed into a card reader attached to the...