On Jan 22, 2008 7:57 AM, Ted Roche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 21, 2008 11:58 PM, Bill Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > The FTP is going into c:\product, not c: > > > > On the Vista Home Premium tested with, this isn't happening, just with > > Home Basic. > > > > I'd also like to have some guidance on what the current best practice is. > > We're supporting a 20-year-old FoxPro program that's grown through > FoxBase and Fox 2.x and VFP and is both stable and mature. We're using > the typical "loader" program to determine if there are updates by > looking on the network and download the update and chaining to that > one. We're running in /Program Files, but that's becoming a hostile > environment; our most secure clients have had to specially-configure > our directory to allow user read-write. > > What's the most efficient (cheap in time and cost) means of > configuring this app to work with the new OS restrictions? > > ----------------------------------------------------------
You can create a USER install that will generate all the files in their personal space of the computer. They have read write privileges already, and that is the M$ method for now. HTH -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer Mimeo.com Memphis TN 901.246-0159 --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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.
