RE: "Cannot locate the Microsoft Visual FoxPro Support Library"

Author: Desmond Lloyd

Posted: 2005-12-15 at 03:36:06

Hi Catherine,

Ya need to make sure that you have the foxw2600.esl file located in the same

folder/directory where you want the app to run. Just ran a quick test and I

get the same message if I rename to something else...

I believe that will do it...

HTH,

Regards,

Desmond

>From: "Hines, Catherine" <catherine.hines@lmco.com>

>Reply-To: profox@leafe.com

>To: profoxtech@leafe.com

>Subject: "Cannot locate the Microsoft Visual FoxPro Support Library"

>Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:22:40 -0500

>

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>We (in this department) have a small FoxPro executable written in FoxPro

>2.6. It's been running fine on a dedicated machine in the customer area

>until about six months ago, when the users determined that they needed

>to both move it to other desktops and to modify it. We haven't yet

>tried to modify it because we can't get it to run on my desktop but

>mine, so far. I have VFP 7.0 installed, as well as 2.6.

>

>The new users - the customers - get the error message above, which is

>pretty surprising since 2.6 is pre-VFP but I assume it is a Windows

>thing. I'm using Windows XP Pro 2002 service pack 2, as are they.

>

>I looked this message up online and found the recommendation to copy two

>files (vfp6r.dll, vfp6renu.dll) to c:\windows\system directory of the

>desktop with the problem. The tech guy has done that, but is still

>getting the error. My desktop has the vfp8 version of those files; the

>directory containing the executable that we're trying to run contains

>the vfp5 versions.

>

>Any suggestions? We added the directory containing all of the Fox DLLs

>to the PATH statement on the desktop, but that did not solve the

>problem, either.

>

>Catherine Hines

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