VFP 6.0 executables will not run on Foreign Language Windows 98. They will not even get to the first line of code but will crash with an empty "Microsoft Visual FoxPro" dialog box with an "OK" and "Help" button at the bottom. This dialog box never gets the focus and after beeping four times the box goes away and that is it.

A client sent me a Hebrew Windows 98 CD to use in order to test this problem that he was having with my application. To make sure that it was not something that is unique to my app, on my American English Win 98 machine I went to VFP98\Tools\Hexedit and compiled the hexedit.pjx project without touching anything before hand.

Booting from floppy, I installed Hebrew Enabled Win 98 on a freshly formatted hard drive doing a "Typical" installation. I selected all defaults when given a choice and did not touch anything after installation.

Immediately after installation and bootup I copied Hexedit.exe over to Drive C: and ran it. I got the same error.

I have checked the version numbers of all "Setup" files and files that run during setup and everything is the same on Hebrew Win 98 as they are in English Win98 (msvcrt.dll, mscvrt40.dll, vfp6r.dll, vfp6renu.dll, oleauth32.dll, ole32.dll, shell32.dll, condlg32.dll, ver.dll, mmsystem.dll, etc.)

I have had several other reports from users that have experienced the same thing and I do not think that this is restricted to just the Hebrew version of Windows 98.

I have the VFP Service Pack 2 installed.

Can anybody duplicate this problem on other Foreign Language versions of Win 98 (compiling hexedit.pjx with English Win 98/English VFP 6.0 and then running the executable on a Foreign Language version?

Is there something that I don't know that I should about cross-language executables?

Any help of suggestions on where to look would be most welcome. I've spent a lot of time doing searches on UT and MSDN but so far nothing.

TIA

Ed