From: Nick Pratt <N DOT B DOT Pratt AT durham DOT ac DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Networked Apps
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1997 11:33:22 +0000
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Forgive me if this is the wrong area, but, I read this group, and am
looking for a spot of help on the following:

Im looking at creating an application that will run on a network server
and can be run by x number of people x number of times. At the moment,
my app has to have x copies to be run by x people (cos of file sharing
etc.). I want it so that there is only one copy of the program on the
server, and the program somehow grabs the UserID and uses this to create
some sort of data dir which is separate from the others.

How do I go about doing this? Anyone know where I should start looking?

Is this Network software dependant? Ie will the same code run under, say
Novell networks and RM ones? Is there anywhere I can write one binary
that will detect either Novell or RM networks and run accordingly?

Any help would be much appreciated or any pointers to info.

Could you please cross-post to email as well. Please.

Thanks in advance,

Nick Pratt