>Below is the code from my view (which is defined in the DBC).
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>If I'm in the development environment, the form I'm using with this view works great!! But once compiled and ran as an EXE, the form throws the C8E error when this view is opened. I had it in the DE at first, dropped it from there and put code in the Load to open it and it still crashes on the Use doc!casem1 line.
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>The development environment is w2k with vfp6 sp4. The crash happens on this machine and I tried it on a win98 with the same result from the exe.
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The error indicates that the system is unable to perform an OS JOIN or SUBST operation currently; this usually indicates a problem where you've used mapped network drives, or used SUBST to fake a drive mapping to a local resource, and the mapping between workstations is inconsistent. If you're relying on mapoped drives in your DBC, then -every- machine that referemces that DBC needs to have -absolutely- identical drive mappings for the involved mapped network drives.

The problem is occurring because you are not creating an equivalent working environment, not because of an OS version or because it's compiled vs running under the VFP development system.