Microsoft KB Archive/21114

Sharing ISAM Files in the Network Environment

PSS ID Number: Q21114 Article last modified on 11-16-1992

2.10 2.20 MS-DOS

Summary: Like the network server, network directory paths must be shared using the NISAM SHARE command. The command syntax has been modeled after the NET SHARE command. You must NISAM SHARE the same directories that you NET SHARE, using the same syntax used in the NET SHARE command. For example, on a server named ZEKE, you would type the following: NISAM START SRV NET SHARE PAYABLE=C: NISAM SHARE PAYABLE=C: A person on another machine, who wants to use an ISAM file in the C:directory on the server named ZEKE, would type the following: NISAM START RDR NET USE E: \ZEKE That person would run the application that OPENs the ISAM file on Drive E. The application can also be passed the machinename to do an explicit OPEN using the “VALUE OF FILE-ID” clause, as in the following example: VALUE OF FILE-ID “\ZEKE.DAT”.

Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1992.