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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Forms & Form designer
Title:
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00090697
Message ID:
00093204
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>>Don't worry about your English, your meaning is clear. What we do is have a 'wrapper' program. This program checks the date and time of the EXE against a copy on the user's C drive. If the network copy is newer, the wrapper program copies the file, otherwise it simply starts the EXE on the C drive, pointing data to the network.
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>>This way, we can compile a new EXE, copy it into the network folder and each user will get it when they next start the program.
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>>HTH
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>Sorry, Barbara. I'm interested too in this question. What is ''wrapper' program' ?. How it works ?. where can i get it or how can i develop it ?
>Thanks

Carlos, our Wrapper is a VFP EXE with one prg and no forms. All it does is check your program EXE on the network for date and time and compare it to a copy on the user's C drive. If the program EXE is newer than the one on the C drive, the wrapper copies the EXE. Its last command is to run the program EXE on the C drive.

This method was used for two reasons: We wanted to have the EXE on each user's C drive for speed and to cut network traffic, and we wanted to be able to update the EXE without closing everyone out of the system.

HTH
Barbara
Barbara Paltiel, Paltiel Inc.
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