>Hello to all,
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>I am installing a small app through the setup wizard using VFP 5.0a.
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>As the user is going through setup they are getting the message "Invalid Path- The application is trying to create an invalid path and will be shut down" I am not sure if they are reading the right message to me.
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>They are installing to Windows95. I generated the distribution disks with a WinNT 4.0 workstation and have tested it here with Win95 and WinNT
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>The first machine they tried to install to has an app developed in VFP 5.0.
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>The second machine is supposedly a "clean" machine and got the same error.
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>Does anyone have any ideas?

The only times I've seen this are (1) attempting to create a directory with a long file name (not 8.3 compliant, or with spaces in it, on an older Novell file server that didn't have the OS/2 namespace loaded), (2) attempting to create a directory on read-only media, or a mapped drive or UNC where the user didn't have write privileges, or (3) where there was a file that matched some part of the path that needed to be allocated, e.g. you can't create the directory C:\Apple\Orange\Banana if there's a file named C:\Apple, C:\Apple\Orange or C:\Apple\Orange\Banana - a directory is just a file, and two files can't have the same name.