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VFP caused an exception...???
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Visual FoxPro
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Databases,Tables, Views, Indexing and SQL syntax
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>>Hi, Fred...
>>
>>When I first read your message, I wondered what was in those doughnuts you've been eating <g>, but figured I'd give it a shot. (I've wondered about video drivers, but never suspected a printer driver.)
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>>And you were right!
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>>I don't have an HP driver, but I do have a driver for a color laser printer called Tectronix (or something like that). The driver is from the manufacturer. When I remove the driver, everything works OK.
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>>Now the hard part....explaining it!
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>>Thanks for the info!
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>Hi Kevin,
>
>PMFJI, but what's happening is that the printer driver is setting the math co-processor to a state where the calling application (in this case VFP) is expected to handle division by zero. VFP expects the co-processor to take care of it. See Q183522 in the MS Knowledge base for further details.
>

That said George, would it be difficult for MS to fix the behavior?
Rick Hodder
MCP Visual Foxpro
C#, VB.NET Developer
Independent Consultant
www.RickHodder.com
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