Must? I never saw that, and in my submission I hard coded the location of the db.db file, user cannot specify the location and didn't lose any points.
Perhaps your assignment was different. Did you have this in your instructions: ".. the program must allow the user to specify the location of the database, and it must also accept an indication that a local database is to be used, in which case, the networking must be bypassed entirely"?
Eugene.
[ February 24, 2003: Message edited by: Eugene Kononov ]