>>>has anyone had problems running a vfp program on a machine using pc-dos?
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>>>pc-dos x.x, win95. ibm thinkpad, 40M RAM.
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>>What is the problem. I had some strange things happen in a past life with stuff like Share.Exe. Do U have a virus? Is the VFP APP EXE corrupt. Did U completly delete VFP 3.0 before upgrading to 3.0b? (This was reported by someone on the thread a week or so ago)... More details may enable the team to help out. Steve
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>no virus. problem (main one, anyhow) is that we use pkzip for backup routine. before running routine, say 'set default to data' so to make pkzip call cleaner. system gives error -- 'invalid path/filename' (something like that). path and default directories are set correctly and data directory exists. this works on every other machine we've tested on.

What is your drive (Sys(5)? I Think). The directory, if it does exist, does not have anything strange related to it. For example, any rights or hidden or anything else share?... Try to create a little system that does SET DEFA and Ur PKZIP stuff. Does it work? R U changing the path in anyway anywhere? Do U use a variable (global I would assume) that contains the path that your SET DEFA is running against. Have U tried a fully qualified path SET DEFA TO C:\mysys\DATA? This is all I can rattle off for now... I'll have a few beers tonite and get more than 5 hours of sleep and perhaps I may have some more ideas... htwh. Steve - Soon to be VB Trained