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VFP 6.0 and Win 3.1
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03/09/2001 07:51:39
 
 
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03/09/2001 07:28:01
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Installation, Setup and Configuration
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00551722
Message ID:
00551771
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>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>Whether the VFP6 application can work on Win31?
>>
>>No - the last version of VFP that was supported under Win 3.x was VFP 3.0b, and it required the problematic WIN32S subsystem. Neither VFP3 nor WIN32S is a supported product.
>>
>>VFP6 requires Win95a (original Win95 with SP1 applied, along with the Y2K patch) and DCOM95 as a minimum OS platform.
>
>Ed,
>
>Is this really true?
>We're running VFP6 apps on Win95 (not 95a) machines.. Soon planning to distribute to 1000+ workstations
>They do have Win2k patch and DCom95

Installing the Win2K patch may have included the SP1 patches; I'm not familiar with the Win2K patch to Win95, and I do not support Win95 any more, finding that Win98 and WSH 2.0 make for a far easier and more stable environment than Win95. If the machines are running OSR2 (the OEM version that came after the original Win95, normally referred to as Win95b or Win95c) then you're fine, since all the OSR2 releases included more than the SP1 patch to the original retail Win95 that shipped in August of 1995. It's definite about the requirement for DCOM; I wrote a FAQ on it, and there are MSKB entries describing the problems related to not installing DCOM properly. If you've installed IE4 on the machines, the shell upgrades needed by Win95 to run VFP6 are definitely in place.

>
>Can you point me to some documentation ? (only if you know it..I can search just as easily as you!)
>

try msdn.microsoft.com/vfoxpro for a starting point.
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