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What is involved with networking the older Windows versions of Latin Flash Drill 3.0 and Latin Vocab Drill 2.0?

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What is involved with networking the older Windows versions of Latin Flash Drill 3.0 and Latin Vocab Drill 2.0?

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Please note that there is a separate version of these programs provided on the installer CD for networking, stored in the ‘Network’ folder and tagged with ‘N’ in the filename. After running the installer ‘setup.exe’ program, you will need to copy the network versions into the program folder, delete the old ones (first noting their filenames), then renaming the new network program files with the old filenames, so that the runtime library can find them. The difference between the standalone and network versions is that, in the standalone version, the user scores are stored within the program, which saves itself on exit, while the network version stores those scores outside the program in the ‘scorecrd.txt’ file, and the program does not save itself on exit. Thus, as far as read-write permissions go, the program file should be made ‘read-only'(required to allow multi-user access on a network), while the ‘scorecrd.txt’ file will need read-write access in order to be usable. If you need to

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