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Foxtools and Windows 2000
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21/03/2002 15:05:52
Scott Barker
Barker Systems Consulting Ltd.
North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Visual FoxPro
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FoxPro 2.x
Miscellaneous
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00635699
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>Hi there.
>
>I just had the pleasure of trying to put an old Fox2.6 for Windows exe on a newly installed Windows200 workstation.
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>The exe uses Foxtools.fll.... and I haven't worked on this program since '94 or '95 .... yikes.
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>Anyways, when trying to load the exe it stalls Windows200 for a while and then I get an error message from FPW2.6 .. File 'FOXTOOLS.FLL' does not exist.
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>The application on startup is trying to set the libary to the foxtools library.
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>Foxtools.fll is right in the same dir as the application exe that I am trying to run, so it should see it and use it....seems fishy.
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>Does anyone recall what the source of this problem is?
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>..the app has run without protest for years on Windows 95,98 and SE ... this just cropped up when the network admin put in a new Win2K workstation.
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>Please help!
>
Scott,

It may be either a configuration or shortcut issue. The easiest way around it is to use the DEFAULT=< path > in the config.fpw file. That should solve it. However, if it doesn't the shortcut may need to be modified so that the default working directory is properly set.
George

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