>>>How can I put VFP6 app and data it uses on a CD-ROM and run it from the CD? I remember some discussions about this months back but I didn't really follow it.
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>>>IMO, the only way I can see how this can be done is to include a "setup" program to install the app on the computer where runtime files can be install and just retrieve the data on the CD. Is there a way to keep the runtime files on the CD and let the app run from the CD?
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>>You're going to have to put some of the runtime components on the client system in the Windows and Windows\System directory; specifrically, shared .DLLs and OCXs which will have to be registered really need to have a permanently addressible home, and that really means a local drive, or at a minimum a permanently mapped network drive that is not removable media. In addition, your CONFIG.FPW must set up TMPFILES on a drive other than the CD.
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>>I'd strongly recommend installing the runtime environment on the client system on a local drive, make a startup directory on the local drive that can be used for temporary files, and write the CONFIG.FPW on a system by system basis rather than embedding it in the .EXE, or you'll spend lots of time pulling out your hair.
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>Thanks Ed. I though as much. It's just that our laptop users are "very" stingy with their diskspace. BTW, if I'm not using any ActiveX, customer DLLs, etc., do you know how much the "required" runtime files take up and/or what these files are?

Take a look at VFP6R.DEP in the DISTRIB.SRC directory.