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
>
>
>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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