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Is anyone running 2.6 compiled apps in WIndows NT?
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Visual FoxPro
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FoxPro 2.x
Miscellaneous
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00052737
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>>>>I'm trying to support an existing app on an NT network while I'm upgrading it to Visual 5. Several users report being unable to install the app, which installs fine in Windows 3.x. Does anyone have experience with this?
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>>>I run 2.6 app over WindowsNT network from Win95 workstations. Problems arise if I try to run it from WinNT workstation. What kind of installation problem your users have? Basically, 2.6 installation is just copying of exe and esl files.
>>Thanks!
>>NT users are reporting that the batch files that essentially copy and unzip all of the files bomb out -- either the files do not all get unzipped or once they get unzipped the .exe doesn't execute.
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>I would advise to copy files over network and see how it will work. You know batch files don't seem very reliable here (NT doesn't rely on DOS as Win95 does).
Unfortunately these clients (I have about a dozen of them) are not on site so I'm in need of an install program that will work reliably -- I can't get either PKZIP or FPw's setup files to work correctly.
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