>RUN Command doesn't work when run from a program on a CD.
>But it works find from the same program started from the HD.
> I have a CD Demo program which is supposed to start an Exe file using the Vfoxpro Run command. But everytime I run it from a CD I get the 1405 RUN Error.
> I have tried everything I can think of like Setting the Path, Default directory to both the exe file directory and command.com.
> I have tried so many variations that I'm beginning to believe that this is a bug of some kind. It seems that now matter what the Run command is trying to start, if my main program which contains the Run command is on the CD, then it won't work.
> Any Ideas... I'm all out.. Regards, John jfo@public.hz.zj.cn

Since you have a CD-RW drive, I would test this on your computer on a rewritable CD. You are trying to run something on a read-only media. So if whatever you are trying to run needs to write or create temporary files or a foxuser table, it can't. If you can monitor the activity of what you are running, look to see what files are being created on the rewritable CD.

I created a post-setup executable designed to run from a CD only. To make it work I included the 2 FOXUSER files in the same directory as the executable.