I don't think so, as all the woes that have descended on him have been the result of my tinkering with the original code. This system I've had as a monkey on my back for years now. I just wish you could see all the code I have to contend with - unstructured enough to make deMarco take a knife to his own throat.

>And now, he thinks of you as a technology God! He'll probably be calling you now if his toaster stops working.
>
>>Ha Ha
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>>I've sorted it with the customer now: an oldish man, not very comp. lit., talking him through it on the phone - him W98 me WinXP. I found the route eventually and I['ve got his system working as expected.
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>>Funny, although I made the mistake of building his exe with Foxprox (386), which seems to have goofed with his pif, today he reinstalled the std. Foxpro build, but the pif was still in 386 mode ...... or whatever! (DOS and nonsense! :-)
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>>I've just finished an hour-long phone confab with him. Phew! Next bush-fire please!
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>>Terry
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>>>You're probably just going to have to look for it on the drive, unless the shortcut points to it directly. If you search for *.pif, I doubt there'll be all that many to find. I haven't seen a pif file in years, so I'm working strictly from aged memory.
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>>>>Alan
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>>>>Can you just remind me how to get at the pif file? I've gone brain numb. Even though I've recompiled the system in FOXPRO aot FOXPROX the client is STILL getting the same problem: EMM386 not installed and the reboot business, as described below.
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>>>>Cheers
>>>>
>>>>Terry
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>>>>>Does the program have a related '.pif' file (remember those)? If it does, check it's (the pif file) properties and make sure that 'run in dos mode', or whatever the heck it was called, is unchecked.
>>>>>
>>>>>>I've just sent out a bug fixed system (in FPD26) to a client who has just reported to me the following sequence:
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>>>>>>On trying to run the system from his existing icon he gets the message:
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>>>>>>"This program is set to run in MS-DOS" and says that he needs to close all other programs.
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>>>>>>He is in W 98 and nowt else is running, so he answers Y" to the continure message.
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>>>>>>A message then pops up that "AMM386 is not installed".
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>>>>>>He hits a key and the computer reboots.
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>>>>>>Now, it's possible I built this system using FoxproX, rather than Foxpro. Could this be the reason? As in my other thread today, this is the same system that many clients are/were happily using. This is embarrassing as this was meant to fix a wee bug he had (to do with the printing to a file from the other message) but now it's catastrophic.
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>>>>>>I'm losing the plot today as I have at least 3 clients with problems so please HELP!!!!!
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>>>>>>'ppreciate it
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>>>>>>Terry