Microsoft KB Archive/235262

= PRB: Installation Errors Installing Visual FoxPro Applications =

Article ID: 235262

Article Last Modified on 5/12/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0b Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
 * Microsoft Visual FoxPro 6.0 Professional Edition

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This article was previously published under Q235262



SYMPTOMS
When trying to install an application from a setup executable created with the Microsoft Visual FoxPro Setup Wizard, the following errors may occur:

When the routine was built with the Visual FoxPro 3.0x Setup Wizard, the following may appear:

Setup Error 914

Your Setup files may be damaged. Try restarting the Setup program

from where you originally ran it.

followed by:

Setup was not completed successfully.

When the routine was built with the Visual FoxPro 5.0x or 6.0 Setup Wizard, the following errors might appear:

Setup Error 275

Object 8

Your Setup files may be damaged. Try restarting the Setup program

from where you originally ran it.

followed by:

Setup was not completed successfully.

When the setup was built with Visual FoxPro 6.0 SP3 Setup Wizard, four error messages may appear in succession:

Setup Error 939

Floppy Mode Root ID Object ID Object

Your Setup files may be damaged. Try restarting the Setup program

from where you originally ran it.

Setup Error 941

Maintenance Mode Root ID Object ID Object

Your Setup files may be damaged. Try restarting the Setup program

from where you originally ran it.

Setup Error 942

Batch Mode Root ID Object ID Object

Your Setup files may be damaged. Try restarting the Setup program

from where you originally ran it.

Setup Error 723

Setup was unable to read the configuration information from the first

section of the setup file: C:\~MSSETUP.T\~MSSTFQF.T\setup.stf.



CAUSE
The configuration setting FIXED was ON when the Setup Wizard was run. This causes the Setup Wizard to write decimal numbers to lines in the .STF file.



RESOLUTION
To eliminate these errors, issue the following from the FoxPro Command window before running the Setup Wizard: SET FIXED OFF



Steps to Reproduce Behavior
 Create two new directories on your computer and place at least one file in the first directory (a bitmap or .txt file will do).  Open one of the Visual FoxPro versions listed in the "applies to" section and issue the following from the Command window: SET FIXED ON                    Use the Setup Wizard to build a setup routine. Specify the first directory created in step 1 as the distribution directory and use the other directory as the disk image directory (steps 1 and 3 of the wizard). Select NETSETUP in step 3 of the wizard. Finish the Setup Wizard and exit Visual FoxPro. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the disk image directory created in step 1. Run SETUP.EXE from the NETSETUP directory. Depending upon the version of Visual FoxPro the setup routine was built with, errors like those listed earlier will occur.</li></ol>

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