>>Hi All
>>Jumping in here - I've got a good contact at MS VFP tech support - I keep finding bugs while he's still trying to figure out a previous one I reported!
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>>Also can get the C0000005 error, but I down loaded dcom98.exe (or something very similar to that just today from Microsoft) You don't need IE4 or the screen= off as above if you install the above first. Well I should say, in early testing its worked so far. If anyone needs the url and exact file name send me a message. I've got it at work, along with the location.
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>>Robert
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>Hi Robert,
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>Thanks for the note. I downloaded dcom95 (since most of our machines are on Win95) and tried it out. On the first machine it worked. On the second one, it errored on entry into the program (rather than on exit). It wouldn't run at all. On the third machine, we had errors too. The first machine was a test machine and so didn't have some of the live software running on it and I assume that's why it didn't error on it.
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>We finally gave up and we are writing our software with the _SCREEN intact. Our next decision is what to do with the commercial package we are about to start developing. The plan was to use VFP, but now, I'm not sure. Perhaps it will have to be Delphi or VB with a VFP backend. I've never done that before, so I would prefer to avoid it, but....

Randy,
Its dcom98.exe not 95.exe. It can be found on the Visual Studio CD in the directory \dcom. I don't know if its found in the VFP Cd.

I've used it on Windows95/98 and NT with no problems except you have to install it first, then your application. I've also found another way to get the C0000005 error during startup - but only in development so far. This was confirmed by M/S and I was told they are going to post it as a known bug.


Robert