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Incorporating an external EXE into my VFP EXE
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20/11/1998 17:22:47
Dragan Nedeljkovich (Online)
Now officially retired
Zrenjanin, Serbia
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00159240
Message ID:
00160002
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>Hi Robert -
>
>I read this article and am unclear as to whether or not this would work in my case. Would I need my EXE to be running NT, or could I just set it up using NT? I have an NT machine, but my users are on W95 laptops. I'm thinking this isn't going to work with W95. What do you think?
>
>If this is a dead end, is there any way I could embed the EXE into a VFP table, and then retrieve it out within my program when I am ready to use it? My client DOES NOT want this EXE sitting by itself on the hard drive. I am stumped...

Say you have a memo field memexe in your table:

append memo memexe from "whatever.exe" overwrite

later, you may just simply

copy memo memexe to "whatever.exe"

and yes, it _will_ be on your hard drive, but you may delete it anytime when it's not running, and copy it back when needed. I'm not sure if this solves your problem, because it doesn't _run_ the exe out of the table, it just copies it from it.

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