>>Thanks Nancy... I kinda figured this. You know, it irks me to have to buy the whole dang studio of tools when I really only need VFP, but if that's what it takes to be able to keep up with the VFP bug fixes included in in VSS service packs then I guess I gotta give in. (big sigh) Good thing I padded my software budget for next year ;)
>Roxanne,
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>You do not need to buy the whole VS in order to keep up with the bug fixes in VFP. If you only have VFP you can still apply the VS service packs and they will update your VFP.
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>The problem with VSS and VFP was related to SP2 of the VS. VSS SP2 installed a dll (whose name I don't recall) that caused VFP to just shut down randomly. No error no warning and you didn't need to be doing anything, VFP just closed. I was teaching a class once and while I was standing on the other side of the room talking to the class VFP suddenly just shut doiwn. It was just sitting there at the command window one moment and the next it was gone <g>.
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>SP3 for VS fixed the problem with VSS and if one had SP2 all that was needed to fix the problem was to copy the original DLL from the original VSS disk over the new one.

Jim,
I will be creating "EXE's" for distribution. Do these SP's need to be on the development machine (Windows 95) or the client machine (Windows NT & 95) or both?
Thanks