>>>I copied my application over to a new pc using PC Anywhere 8.0 with a lap link cable. Now I get an illegal operation everytime I try to run the app. It says the error is in the ESL file.
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>>>I've gone from a Win 95 pc to a Win 98 pc.
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>>>I even ran the setup disks again.
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>>>Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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>>>Thanks.
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>>Hi Trish,
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>> If the new computer does not have FPW 2.6 installed on it, you have to copy the foxw2600.esl file (along with other files-see docs on distributing applications) to the new computer. Make sure you mark it "read only."
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>>HTH,
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>>TFISHER
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>It was done on two computers. One had FPW2.6 copied over on it and the other didn't. But both computers did have the ESL file. It wasn't marked read-only though.
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>FPW2.6 crashed completely when I tried to run it. I finally ran the setup disks for my application and it still wasn't happy.
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>I didn't think FPW2.6 put anything in the registry.
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>Trish

pcAnywhere is tricky. It has a LARGE swap file used to update the screen. Look in the pcAnywhere/DATA directory.

I suggest:

Delete this file.
Reconnect to the remote computer and DELETE the ESL and EXE file
Do another file transfer to re copy.

pcAnywhere uses a method where it copies only the changed parts of code but sometimes it reads from the swap file and leads to grief.

I had an app that I ran on a clients machine. Even though I made changes and copied the new exe and ran, the old one would run despite deleting it before copying. Deleting the swap file solved this.

Hope this helps