Barbara:

Thanks for the reply. The VFP runtime files are installed in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder (good / bad?) on the user's PC and the desktop shortcut icon they use to launch the EXE has a START IN value that is the same drive / path where the EXE resides (PROGRAM FILES\MY PROGRAM).

Am wondering if the runtimes should be in the same folder as the EXE.

Chris

>First, Chris, check the code for the error file and see exactly what they are saving. It's very possible that you are talking apples and oranges here. For example I just started my VFP in D:\Samples, but Sys(2004), "Visual FoxPro Start Directory" is E:\Program Files........\VFP98\", the location of VFP.EXE. The same may well be true of the other items.
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>Second, you're right that the program should default to the config.fpw in the same directory as the EXE. However, if you have a "Start folder" different from the one where the EXE is VFP can get confused.
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>HTH
>Barbara
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>>I have a Config.FPW file that looks like:
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>>keycomp = windows
>>sortwork = C:\TEMP
>>progwork = C:\TEMP
>>editwork = C:\TEMP
>>mvcount = 1024
>>path = data;reports;bmps;html;worddocs
>>status bar = off
>>status = off
>>resource = off
>>clock = status
>>exclusive = off
>>deleted = on
>>multilocks = on
>>command = _Screen.WindowState = 2
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>>I received an errorlog from a user that collects details about an error when an option hurls. Here are 4 lines from the errorlog regarding an error:
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>>Current directory: V:\
>>FoxPro start dir: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\
>>Resource file: V:\FOXUSER.DBF
>>Temporary file drive: C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
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>>1) Why is the "Temp file drive" C:\WINDOWS\TEMP instead of C:\TEMP as specified in the Config.FPW file?
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>>2) Why is the start dir C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM? Is this determined by the location of the VFP runtimes? If so, should i have a copy of CONFIG.FPW in the WINDOWS\SYSTEM folder?
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>>3) I do not specify and do NOT want to specify a config file name as part of the call to launch the EXE (i.e. C:\Vfp98\VFP6.EXE -CC:\MYAPP\MYAPP.FPW). I thought by naming the config file CONFIG.FPW, VFP would find it. (The file resides in the same directory as the EXE that they run.) Is this the case?
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>>thanks...