Question: FileCopy From - To Server: round trip?

[Mark Hammer]

Question:

I want to make a copy of my BE file in a temp folder prior to compacting:

If I use the FileCopy command in VBA with both the source and destination
set to server locations, does the copy operation require a round trip to
copy the BE file first to my FE machine, then back?

If that's the case, I might just as well make my temp folder on the FE
machine, right?

TIA,

--Mark Hammer
Lake Oswego, Oregon

 

[david epsom dot com dot au]

If I use the FileCopy command in VBA with both the source and destination

set to server locations, does the copy operation require a round trip to
Yes

If that's the case, I might just as well make my temp folder on the FE
machine, right?

Yes.


Novell Netware had a command-line remote copy command: Terminal Server
allows you log in remotely and use the local copy commands: someone
may even have written an Active X component that allows you to use
DCOM to do a remote file copy: but the native VB filecopy command
copies the file to local memory, and from local memory back to
the remote drive.

(david)