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VFP6 and Autorun
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07/01/1999 16:58:54
Elyse Pomerantz
Dynamic Data Concepts, Inc.
Brooklyn, New York, United States
 
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Visual FoxPro
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Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00173799
Message ID:
00173814
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>>I would like to distribute my application on CD and enable the Autorun feature. I did this numerous times in VFP5 successfully, but I'm getting an error in VFP6. As per Article Q172078, I renamed the setup.exe to autorun.exe. But when I run the autorun.exe, after a few steps I get a message saying that the file 'setup.exe' cannot be opened. Of course it can't, it no longer exists, but why is the installation looking for it? I tried this with both the 'netsetup' option and the 'websetup' option and had the same problem. I've already upgraded my Setup Wizard. Anyone else do this successfully?
>>
>>Thanks!
>
>Looking at a typical AUTORUN.INF file the following lines should suffice:
>[AutoRun]
>open=setup.exe
>Assuming SETUP.EXE is in the root directory of the CD. The AUTORUN.INF file also needs to be in the root directory of the CD.
>
>If you put all your install files in a directory on the CD, change the lines to:
>
>[AutoRun]
>open=relative_directory_path_here\setup.exe
>Just do not precede the directory path with a drive letter.


According to the KB article, I should rename setup.exe to autorun.exe, setup.lst to autorun.lst and create a file called autorun.inf with the lines:

[autorun]
OPEN=AUTORUN.EXE

This is how I did it in VFP5 and it worked great. Now I'm getting an error that it's looking for the setup.exe file. The path is correct, but the file doesn't exist because I renamed it. Why is it specifically looking for setup.exe? According to the KB article, this should work for VFP6, too.
Elyse Pomerantz
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