>>>>We have an application(EXE file) that is compiled in FOXPRO 2.6 under WIN 95. We are getting error message 'I/O OPERATION FAILURE', when we tried to run the program in another machine (running under WINDOWS 98). TIA
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>>>>Manivel
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>>>This may also happen if you have an inaccessible drive such as a CD-ROM without a disk in it. This tends to happen only when any component of the .exe, including the stuff that Fox Software wrote, that was developed on a D: drive.
>>>HTH
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>>Thanks - I hadn't seen that before, but i noticed that Abri has a fix for that on their board as well...
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>Just be a little careful of the fix. If you explicitly reference drives other than A:, B: C: in your code, they'll get zapped. But you wouldn't normally do that, would you - bad programming :-)

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>BTW many of the FPW things like Genpd.app were developed on a D: drive!!
>I fixed a lot of probs by recompiling the source on my C: drive.
>I've *only* developed FPW on a C: drive for about the last 3 years

I haven't had to deal with 2.6 now for several years - I gratuated from snippet confusion to inflicting massive damage with classes a while ago.