>>>Has anyone seen this weird phenomena? Certain PC's thruout this place of employment when running several apps say upon startup
>>>"Cannot read from drive D". So I put any available CD into the cd-rom drive and run again and it works. Crazy eh?
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>>1)It may be that you have a d: in your search path
>>Before running app check your environment (i.e. go to dos prompt and type "path"). If a reference to d: is there, then check your autoexec.bat .
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>>2)Your foxpro resource file might have a reference to d:, try adding "RESOURCE=OFF" to your config.fpw
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>This is a known Bug in foxpro 2.6 It will not be fixed. It seems to only occur on some machines (usually with CD) and most often with laptops. There is only one sure fire fix to avoiding it. Here it is. Some combination of these requirements may also work.
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>[1] Start with a machine that has ONLY a C: drive
>[2] Install foxpro on the C:drive
>[3] Install your project on the C: drive
>[4] Rebuild all objects
>[5] Do not include any common FXP's that have been built elsewhere
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>You might get away with just putting everything on the C: drive of a multi drive machine. Make sure your rebuild does not reference any file anywhere other than drive C:
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>Bob
THANKS for the response, Good to know there was some reasoning behind it.