>A VFP app creates backups of directories listed in a table. It is normally run by issuing a command from Start>Run like "ZipAll c:\Zips]20090101". The app receives the parameter and calls a form which opens the table and creates the backups using pkzipc.
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>This program has been working for a long time. Today I made small change in code. With the change the program runs in development, and even if I run the exe file from the development environment, but doesn't want to run from Start>Run command window.
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>BTW, it doesn' t make difference if I reverse the change and recompile and even the old execulable wont run from Start>Run anymore. Worse of all I can't do a trace either with WAIT WINDOW of even STRTOFILE('message','trace.exe'). It seems program simply refuses to start.
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>Any ideas about what could be the problem?
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>TIA,
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>Alex

Did you try on one computer only? Would it work on another computer?