>It is not possible to run an app from a floppy. One of the runtime files alone is over 3MB. If you have installed the runtime files and any ActiveX controls to the workstation, then you could run a compiled APP or EXE from a floppy if it fits.
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>IMO, you need to rethink how you distribute the app to the users. All you have to do is put the installation file on a server in a folder that is accessible to all users, then send them an e-mail on where to go to install the app. Most of us have 2 executables per app.
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>The first is a very small VFP launcher EXE that looks for updated APP file in a specified location on the server. If a newer version exists on the server than does on the workstation, the launcher EXE copies the new file to the workstation, overwriting the current APP file. When the updating is done, the launcher EXE finishes by starting the APP -- DO ("MYAPP.APP")
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>The reason for the parens and quotes is so the Project Manager does not try to add the MYAPP.APP file to the launcher EXE project.
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>>Hi Everyone!
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>>Does anyone know how to make an app run from a floppy. I'm in a situation where I don't want to go to all of our workstations to install the application. I just want to run it from a floppy every now and then.
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>>Any help would be appreciated!
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>>Thanks in Advance.



mark -

do you ever run foxpro apps over the network ? i.e. as opposed to copying the .exe to the workstation ? for your .exe's that you do copy to workstation, are you accessing local tables or file-server tables ?

i have an .exe that is run from the file-server that access tables on the file-
server. is that less effecient than copying the app to the five workstations
that use it ? (i've installed the run-time stuff on each workstation).