>>>I assume its ok but I thought I'd better check.
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>>>Will my users still be able to successfully run a VFP 5.0a SP3 executable on their system after I have done a new setup/install of a different VFP 6.0 SP3 executable on their same computer.
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>>They'll run fine - there are seperate entries in the registry for both, so both sets of runtimes will be available.
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>>>Bob
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>Thanks. This solves my problem. On a more general level, does this mean that a VFP 5 exe would fail on a machine that had ONLY gone through a VFP 6 setup?

I remember that at one time, there were claims that you could run VPF5 apps under the VFP6 development engine without recompilation; I haven't tried to run a VFP5 .EXE with only the VFP6 runtime in place. I wouldn't rely on it without lots of testing; there are definitely different runtime dependencies, and some commands had minor changes in syntax and exactly what some of their clauses did.

Given that some environmental support issues came up under VFP6 (the problems running VFP6 executables under NT 3.51 for example), I'd rather carry the extra files on the system and not have to worry about it.