>Hello,
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>I have a rather odd requirement for a small application I'm making. It must run with out any files being installed to the computer. I know using VB you can just have the VB files in the same directory (ie on the CD) and it will run fine, is it possible to do this with a VFP exe?
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>Is there any known hack to do this? Using VFP will greatly reduce my programming time.
You do need some DLL files, but yes, you can run your program without any special installation - just copying the files.
For Visual FoxPro 6, search in c:\windows for files like vfp*.dll. You don't need the odbc file, unless you use ODBC.
HTH, Hilmar.
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