>>Hi Tibor,
>>
>>check out
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q240982>>
>>>Good morning. I installed FoxPro 2.6 on a Win2k machine without a hitch, and when I try to run Foxprow.exe I get a Divide By Zero or OverFlow error. Any help is greatly appreciated. TH
>
>Hi Tore,
>
>I've downloaded patch and ran the first command, it gave me an error:
>
>Copyright (C) Microsoft Corp 1998. All rights res
>PATCH26: error : incorrect FoxPro 2.6a file size
>
>I'm not sure, which version of Foxpro is the file. How can I find it out. I do not have old versions of FoxPro on this machine.
>
>UPDATE. Ok, reading further I see:
>
If you
> need the patch, and have an earlier version, you must upgrade to
> version 2.6a first, then apply Patch26 to that version. The
> Microsoft Knowledge Base article, Q102893, "PATCH: FoxPro 2.6a
> Patch Files for FoxPro 2.6", describes how to patch FoxPro for
> Windows version 2.6 to upgrade it to version 2.6a. This allows you
> to apply Patch26 as described previously. If you attempt to patch a
> file from an earlier version, Patch26 returns this message: >
>So, I need to go a longer route... :(
You could try the IPatchFP patch from the same MS page. It works on a wide variety of FPW versions. For example, I used it to patch FPW2.5 on my current development machine.
Regards. Al
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