Your manager has been talking to her colleagues (always a potential source of trouble, mind you), and she's decided that when your application opens, certain configuration information should be retrieved from disk and read into a series of global variables. You've told her that you can do this easily using native Alpha Five tables, but her friends have convinced her the app should use an ".ini" file, instead.
She wants your customer to be able to store organization name, organization address, organization phone and fax numbers, and organization e-mail address, using a text file called "system_info.ini" stored in your database folder. The text file should contain a single long string of text. Use delimiters you choose to separate the string into its parts. Each part should be stored in reverse order.
Your task grasshopper is to write an autoexec script for your database that will check to see if the INI file is already present. If it's not there then the script should prompt the user to supply the organization information and then store it on disk in the specified INI file. As mentioned each piece of the information should be obfuscated by reversing the sequence of its letters.
Have fun.
-- tom
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