Ed & company: I got Koen's reply, but never saw Tracy's original message. Often when this happens the original is in the Spam folder, but not this morning.
Just thought I'd flag this as Ed had said he was moving around some domains and this might be a sign of trouble. Hope not. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Koen Piller <[email protected]> Date: Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 11:23 AM Subject: Re: VFP 9.00.0000.5815 and a bad PATH environment variable To: [email protected] Hi, You did not mention which OS() and where the by you constructed myVFP.exe resides. By the way, any reason for not installing the hotfixes? https://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/vfp-90-versions Regards, Koen 2016-01-07 15:30 GMT+01:00 Tracy Pearson <[email protected]>: > Hello everyone, > > I have been getting a steady one or two calls a month for a year about our > VFP 9 program not starting and getting the following dialog: > > ---------------------------------------- > Program Error > ---------------------------------------- > Invalid path or file name. > ---------------------------------------- > Cancel Ignore Help > ---------------------------------------- > > I have placed in the CONFIG.FPW the following > COVERAGE=STARTUPCOVERAGE.TXT > > When I start the program with an invalid PATH environment variable, the > coverage file is created. However it is 0 bytes. > > I created a test project. > It contains a MAIN.PRG > ON SHUTDOWN clear events > READ EVENTS > ON SHUTDOWN > > It also contains a CONFIG.FPW > title=Bad Path Testing > resource=off > > When this project starts without the bad PATH environment variable it opens > and closes without problems. > I start a CMD prompt and run the following line to break the PATH > environment variable > PATH=%PATH%:c:\windows > > (yes, the : separating the path instead of a semicolon is a common problem > I've been seeing) > > Start the EXE from this now corrupted environment CMD window and the error > will happen. > This wasn't a problem with VFP 9.00.0000.3504 > I do update the manifest in my VFP 9.00.0000.3504, which does start causing > the problem. > > Does anyone have some thoughts or ideas as to what might be the problem? > > Thank you, > Tracy > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4sw__8ptesdtq2kc-08wswpy-oxc2n6ovcugm54z_1...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
