Yes that is what I meant... Sorry about the confusion... My mind is fried... Too much too do, too little time to do it in..

Thanks for your help,
Mike

>Hi Mike,
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>I thought I recalled this error being caused by spaces in the destination directory (is that what you meant?) not the directory the setup files were in.
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>I'd found the article by breaking the error message down and searching on different parts. The one that returned the article was a searh for "Bad default path field".
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>>No I don't think so... The setup directory is called dummy. I don't believe this violates any of the rules for directories for NT, win 9x or win 3x or even DOS.
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>>BTW, how did you find the right KB article? I went and did a search on the error and all that was returned for the first 3 pages was stuff abour visual source safe. I explicitly told it that I weas looking for a VFP error with this text... (quite annoying actually..)
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>>Thanks for your assistance,
>>Mike