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Problem with VFP 6 application installer
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11/05/2000 12:31:08
 
 
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11/05/2000 05:49:29
Stacey King
Koala Publishing Ltd
Bristol, United Kingdom
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Visual FoxPro
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Other
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00368446
Message ID:
00368633
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>I have an urgent problem that involves the installer for VFP 6.0 and I would be grateful for any help you could give me. For one
>customer we produce a CD-ROM that is distributed to 1000 users each quarter. This CD contains a VFP 6 application that
>needs to be re-installed when a customer receives a new CD. Previous versions of the CD used a VFP 3 application, but we have
>recently upgraded it to VFP 6. The problem is that the VFP 6 installer does not overwrite the existing installations EXE files,
>whereas the VFP 3 installer did. Do you know of any way around this problem using the VFP 6 installer (asking the user to
>remove the previous installation is not a viable option) or can you recommend an alternate installer for installing VFP 6
>applications.
>

There are plenty of other installers for VFP6, including the other freee one, Visual Studio Installer that can be downloaded from the MSDN Web site (msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro), and a wide range of third-party products. They won't address the issue of overwriting/uninstalling the VFP3 app - you'll have to write a bit of code that you run before handing control to the installer that checks for the VFP 3 version and deletes the files as necessary.
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