>>Let me try asking this in a simpler way:
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>>Does anyone know what the "dependencies" for the Vfp8runtime.msm might be?
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>Hi Bruce,
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>It's VFP_GDIPlus.msm and MSVCR70.msm. You can use MS Orca tool to view and edit merge modules. See http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~InstallShieldExpressAndVfp7~VFP.

1st (dependency) problem finally solved - in case anyone else runs across this: I had an older (vfp7) version of vfpoledb.msm in my ISX module folder - this caused the vfp8runtime "dependency" trouble. There are no messages to help discover this. I had to check MSM file dates by trial & error until I found the "funny" one.

The 2nd (Readme) error is simple to fix, there's a KB doc at the Installshield site for it. It's basically just from an ISX SP4 bug, and needs only a very minor adjustment.

Also, there was yet another problem: there are 2 GDI+ MSMs (at least in my module folder), and the correct one is "GDI Plus...", not the one called "GDI+"

Hope this may help someone else using ISX 3.54 with vfp8. And thanks again for the Wiki link, Sergey, there was some helpful stuff there - especially the command line parms for XP which I need.