For FoxPro, that switch registers FP registry keys. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa977197(VS.71).aspx
Is the main executable a FoxPro app too? If so, the switch is probably irrelevant after its first execution. Have you tried launching without the switch? Jeff On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, James Rankin <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi guys / gals > > I have a (POS) application that, unsurprisingly, is vital to our business. > The company that manufacture said app have decided that they need to use a > special executable to run it, which keeps the version updated. It's a FoxPro > app (blech) and for some reason, when they run it, the first thing it does > is call the main executable with the /regserver switch. I'm not sure what > this does, and would appreciate it if someone could educate me, because > unless you run it with admin rights (which ain't happening on my watch), the > thing fails with the error "Visual FoxPro could not start. Could not load > resources". Running with admin rights - all OK. > > I've been looking at process monitor output all afternoon and can't work > out what it's doing, I've been messing about with registry permissions and > file permissions for what seems like an eternity. The great Google-God > appears short on inspiration (for me, anyway). Can anyone tell me what this > mysterious /regserver switch does, as I am sure something in our mandatory > profile is preventing it from executing? > > As always, thanks gratefully provided in advance. > > > JRR > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able > rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such > a question." > > http://raythestray.blogspot.com > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
