>>>>I have a colleague who claims he can run vfp5-created EXEs off a server just by copying the vfp500.dll and vfpenu.dll to the same server directory as the EXE (this is to be run by users with no prior vfp setup of any kind). It's my understanding that this should not be done, as it can cause trouble with Win 95 registry. Can someone explain this in more detail?
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>>>is he sure he hasn't installed a vfp5 system on his machine previously?
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>>No, he claims to have done it on a "virgin" machine, that has only fpw2.6 installed...
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>i might have a chance to try this sometime next week. we've run 5.0a apps on machines where we didn't install (all files on server) but found later that someone else had installed the 5 files...

I haven't seen anything indicating whether it's possible or not, just the impression that one should always run a setup to load the dlls to avoid possible Win 95 registry problems (to make Win 95 "aware" of vfp)...

Anyway, I just tested a simple dummy exe from a server, with the 2 dlls in the same directory, on a machine with no vfp5 files at all. I got two errors quickly:

"Resource mismatch..."
"File could not load..."