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Author Run a VFP8 .EXE using the VFP9 runtime?
William Fields

2005-04-12, 8:25 pm

I would like to test an existing VFP8 application (.EXE) under the VFP9
runtime without compiling under VFP9, is this possible?

And I'd rather not launch the VFP8 executable as a command line parameter
for the VFP9.EXE - that's a different environment than the straight VFP9
runtime.

Thanks.

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Dan Freeman

2005-04-12, 8:25 pm

Start up VFP9 and DO your.exe in the command window.

Dan

William Fields wrote:
> I would like to test an existing VFP8 application (.EXE) under the
> VFP9 runtime without compiling under VFP9, is this possible?
>
> And I'd rather not launch the VFP8 executable as a command line
> parameter for the VFP9.EXE - that's a different environment than the
> straight VFP9 runtime.
>
> Thanks.



Cyrus Welch

2005-04-13, 3:25 am

Dan Freeman wrote:
> Start up VFP9 and DO your.exe in the command window.
>
> Dan
>
> William Fields wrote:
>
>
>
>

Create a small loader program in VFP9 that does nothing more than DO the
VFP8 executable. That should mostly do what you want.

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