I figured out the problem. It's an old bug which was also there in Fp2.6: I had too many files in the directories. After I eliminated some it worked like a charm.

Thanks

Peter

>You need to create an instalation that includes the runtimes. The easiest way is to use the setup wiz in VFP Insure you select include runtimes it is not a default option in 3 or 5 (havent made a distrib in 6 yet).
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>>I have a VFP6.0 application which runs fin on the network because I have VFP installed on the loca machine. my users don't.
>>I create an xx.exe instead of the xx.app in the startup directory on the network. Now VFP is looking for the runtime library. I tried copyin vfp.dll without success.
>>So I ran the setup wizard but it does not work. It creates an error 3.
>>Can someone explaim the steps I need to go through so that my users can run the app from the network (NT 4.0)
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