Gaylen,

I have a feeling that the bloke knows not about that which he speaks <g>.

You can certainly have APP files on the server and redistribute them as you like. For Visual Studio 6 (and therefore VFP6), the files you may redistribute are listed in the redistrib.txt file. On my machine it's in the visual studio folder above the VFP folder. In addition, any app, prg, exe, mpr fxp, etc file you write and/or compile using the VFP development environment is freely distributable.

Just so there's no ambiguity: If you wrote and compiled the APP files, you can have them on the server and call them from wherever you like. The client machines need to have the (freely distributable) runtime libraries installed so they can open the apps and exes. You may not redistribute the development environment, nor any other file that ships on the VFP/VS6 CDs unless it appears in the redist.txt file.

HTH

Cheers,

Andrew

>I have developed the following client server system used by about 25 employees:
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>I have installed the run time on each of the client machines along with a small exe which is nothing more than a splash screen which calls a menu located on the server.
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>The menu then calls the other programs that the employees can use. There are approximately 10 different applications that can be called.
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>The applications are all located on the server along with the data files. The applications are compiled vfp6 apps such as Cashreceipts.app etc.
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>I have been told that the IS manager states that this setup is in violation of Microsoft's licensing agreement as the applications on the server should be compiled exe's and not app's.
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>Obviously I could go out and convert all the apps to exe's, however I question his interpretation. I do not know his rationale as I have not discussed it with him as this has come back to me second hand.
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>Is there any truth to what he is intimating? Any advice would be appreciated.
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>Thanks
>Gaylen