>to all,
>i have just completed an application, created the .exe and moved it from my test drive and placed it in the 'live directory'. I've run the application from 3 different machines and have had 3 differnt results.
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>1 - ran it from my machine, (the machine it was created on), it ran ok.
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>2 - ran it from another machine, it started with no problem and seemed to run ok, but when i exited the program i received the following message -- Microsfot Visual Foxpro - Fatal error: Exception Code = C0000005.
>

This may be DCOM related - see my entry in the FAQ regarding detecting whether DCOM has been installed properly on a system.

>3 - ran it from a 3rd machine and the program did not start at all received the following message -- A required .dll file, mscvrt.dll, was not found.
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Unless the VFP runtime, including all necessary components, are installed and correctly registered, the VFP created executable will not run. The easiest thing to do is to create a minimal install of the runtime and components (it doesn't have to include your executable) and install the necessary runtime files on each system that will run the VFP app. Simply copying files or making them available in a shared directory is not an adequate installation of the VFP runtime components.

>suggestions please (i will research the problem in the meantime).
>thank you
>frank