Thank you Erik - it is a path problem. Your suggestion saved me a lot of trial and error.

I suppose it is necessary to run the .exe in the directory it was compiled in since the SET PATH TO command seems to work only at design time.


>>I have an application which uses three tables opened in the data enviroment of a form. The application works perfectly after compiling into a .exe file on my development machine.
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>>On the user's machine, with only the runtime .dll files the form is unable to find two of the tables.
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>Sounds more like a pathing issue. Does this user have the same drive mappings? Does the exe run on your machine.
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>>Quite a few other things work differently such as the application opening minimized and the exit command not working properly.
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>What's an exit command? Again, test the exe on your machine and note if there are differences.