Microsoft KB Archive/163933

= FIX: Executable Error " is not an object file" =

Article ID: 163933

Article Last Modified on 10/16/2002

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a

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This article was previously published under Q163933



SYMPTOMS
If you run an executable installed from disk images created by the Visual FoxPro Setup Wizard, the following error message appears:

" is not an object file."

Note that the size of the executable installed on the destination machine is larger than the original.



RESOLUTION
There are two possible workarounds to this situation:


 * 1) Distribute an additional file that is named alphabetically first. For example, if there is only one file being distributed and it is named "myexe.exe," add an additional file named "a.txt."
 * 2) If possible, use the NetSetup images instead of diskette images created by the Setup Wizard.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. This has been corrected in Visual FoxPro 6.0.



MORE INFORMATION
The three criteria that cause this error are:


 * The .EXE to distribute must be large enough to have the Setup Wizard split it into separate files for distribution.
 * The split files must spread across more than one diskette image.
 * The .EXE file name must be the first file, alphabetically, of the files being distributed via the Setup Wizard.

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