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Installing VFP 5 while keeping VFP 3
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Visual FoxPro
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>>>>>Hi Marcus!
>>>>>
>>>>>I've such experience, nothing good but nothing wrong could happened As far as I can remember, all was ok
>>>>>
>>>>>>Has anyone one had good or bad experiences installing VFP 5.0 while keeping
>>>>>>VFP 3.0? I would like to continue developing in 3.0 for a while, but need
>>>>>>to start moving to 5.0. Am I just paranoid, or are there strange things to
>>>>>>watch out for? Thanks for any comments.
>>>>>>Marcus.
>>>>
>>>>VFP5 is Ok. Really bad things will happen if you install Office97, which is really box of problems.
>>>
>>>Hi Edward,
>>>
>>>I installed Office97 about two months age. I haven't had any problems yet. What sort of problems should I be expecting? Is there documentation at MS or elsewhere describing these problems?
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Paul de Niverville
>>
>>Paul,
>>
>>One big problem with Office97 is that it will overwrite DLLs and OCXs with newer files with the same names. These do not always work with VFP. On occasion it will also remove the VFP license to the OCXs, so you have to update the Registry manually.
>>
>>Barbara
>
>What sort of DLLs and OCXs? Do they come with WIN95 or WIN NT? Would installing or re-installing vfp3 or vfp5 AFTER installing office97 help? I have office97 and vfp3 at work, in win nt. vfp3 was installed after office97. I have not had a problem.

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