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Trouble understanding how to create execute file with VF
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08/06/1999 09:59:08
 
 
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08/06/1999 09:55:05
Chuck Tripi
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Troubleshooting
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00227377
Message ID:
00227420
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Normal behaviour for me. When was the last time you installed a commercial app by just copying an EXE? The best thing would be to build a setup program and put it on the server where every user can access to install the app.

>MS just emailed me (it was less than 10 minutes since I called, wow!) and this is what he said...
>
>1. You can copy the VFP6R.DLL and the VFP6RENU.DLL to the Windows\System
>directory and any VFP6 executable that you've created will have access to
>these resource files as long as the Windows\System directory is in your
>environment path. Another way of letting the VFP6 executable "know" where
>the resource files are located is to use the "-d" switch a shortcut for the
>executable (ie, MYEXE -dc:\winnt\system32)
>
>This is crazy still, meaning that I would have "remember" to copy those two files everywhere I copy an VFP execute!?!? Even if we get a new "extra" PC and I would have to beg other people to copy the two files just in case we "ever" run a VFP execute on that PC, do you see what I mean?
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