what is this command-line switch?

[netcert]

We open this Access DB ('97) thru another application and the command is listed as:

"j:\gtllp\Access Databases\AccessCalls" /D j:\gtllp\Access Databases\Accounting Reports

Now I can't find any info. as to what the "/D" represents. I've looked all over and can only find /X as far as letters go.

Anybody else have a clue?

Rob

 

[Francescina]

Maybe it is an undocumented abreviation for "decompile"?
You can easily check this: Copy the shortcut, delete the /D and use it to open the database (attention: only after you worked a while in it).
Then check its size with Windows Explorer.
Close the MDB without compacting it (AFAIK there was no automatic "compact on close" in A97).
Open it again with the old shortcut.
Check the filesize.
If the MDB is now smaller, then it was the Decompile-switch.
BTW: is this question really important?

 

[MichaelRed]

I agree that it is undocumeted, however the usage would imply that it is just specifying the target db.

MichaelRed
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