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    OK, thanks. I"m glad to hear that using the Windows copy command is using "an API", if that's a better way of doing things.
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    The "I" in "API" stands for "interface". An API isn't a program, it's an interface to a program or a computer. To what program are you suggesting an API is the best interface?
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    Yes, you are absolutely correct. And to be honest, I quoted Joel Spolsky out of context, naughty me. Still I've found his writing on software development fascinating, including that article about Netscape's rewrite (this forum won't let me post hyperlinks).
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    A 20 year old program sounds good to me. Thoroughly tested. Like Joel Spolsky says about old software- "It doesn’t acquire bugs just by sitting around on your hard drive." That's an unusual use of the acronym "API". I thought it was short for "Application Programming Interface". Not quite sure...
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    Thanks very much for you help. I'm sorry if it gets tedious reading the same answer more than once.
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    I see, thanks. I rarely change the BE file. Or at least a lot less often than the FE. And there's only ever one BE file. I have a FE file on each user's machine (or now in their Documents folder, in a folder redirect on the server) and on the Server there's an "update" folder in which I place...
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    Presumably you mean a table in the FE on the workstation and also in the update copy of the FE? I usually use the term BE to refer to the shared data file. Assuming that's what you mean, yes, that's what I've been doing. Using a VB6 "updater" that I wrote. It's OK, but to be honest I don't...
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    Ahh, that's a thought. A quick google reveals that yes, admin rights are needed, but there are various workarounds, depending what the sysadmins have done. But if there's no particular advantage to Powershell compared to a good old fashioned batch file, I'll stick with .bat Thanks.
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    I am about to write, er, something, to do this very thing. Updating the front end. History: I wrote my own FE updater in VB6, years ago. It's OK, but keeps tripping up over UAC warnings, which is annoying for the users. Also the users are now doing a lot more remote work, via RDP onto the...
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