I think not. At least, as it is now, I have nothing on the local machine, everything on the servers & Citrix.

I want to simplify this - not complicate it - further by having a VfpCommon dir with all the common stuff in one place on the network.

>Then I suggest that you crate a "loader" program which
>1. Checks whether the necessary files are located in the defined directory on the local machine
>2. If not, copies the newer files from the server to the defined local directory
>3. Starts the EXE from the local machine
>
>
>>Yes, me too, but that's exactly what I'd like to avoid. As the number of apps grows, this is not a very satisfying solution.
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>>>Place the runtime files in the same directory as your EXE, no registration is required! I have done it for years, works wothout any problem.
>>>
>>>>We've got a number of VFP apps running off our network servers & Citrix.
>>>>
>>>>Rather than copying the VFP runtime stuff to each .exe / dir, a potential maintenance nightmare, I'd like to place it all in a VfpCommon dir.
>>>>
>>>>Our support people have tried all sorts of stuff with the path & even registering the .dll's. So far with no luck, so they've given up.
>>>>
>>>>Can not locate VFP support library, it says.
>>>>
>>>>Why would that be? And what should I tell them to do?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>TIA & BR