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| Visual FoxPro 5.0 Runtime Installation |
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Assembled By:	Chad J. Lemmer, C.J. Software & Consulting
			(Visual FoxPro 5.0 was developed and is distributed
                   by Microsoft Corportation)
Version:		1.0
Version Date:	1/25/1998
Price:		$0.00


What is the Visual FoxPro 5.0 Runtime Installation?
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Visual FoxPro 5 is a relational database programming language written
and distributed by Microsoft.  Many developers program in Visual FoxPro
and some of them distribute there applications as Freeware and/or
Shareware.  This installation was created using the Visual FoxPro
Setup Wizard which was also written by Microsoft and is part of the
Visual FoxPro 5 development system.  I only created the test application
to test the installation of the Visual FoxPro runtime files.

This Visual FoxPro 5 Runtime installation is nothing more than an
installation of the system files required to run applications written
in Visual FoxPro 5.0 for Windows.  The support files are rather large
in size, so instead of downloading and installing the runtime files
with every Visual FoxPro program that is distributed as Shareware or 
Freeware, you only need to download and install these files once.
This will make any future Visual FoxPro 5 applications faster to download
and install because they do not need to distribute these system files.
This will also keep more disk space on the Shareware/Freware FTP servers
available for other files because the Visual FoxPro 5 runtime files 
need to be there only once, instead of with every other Visual FoxPro 5
application, which is why I created this installation routine.

This concept is very similar to the distribution of the Visual Basic
runtime files, such as VBRUN300.DLL.  Only the runtime files for Visual
FoxPro are many and require a special installation for Visual FoxPro
applications to run.

SPECIAL NOTE FOR VISUAL FOXPRO DEVELOPERS:  This install installs the
runtime files ONLY.  It does not install MS Graph, any ODBC drivers, or any OLE
servers.  This is JUST the Visual FoxPro runtime installation.  Any
applications requiring ODBC drivers must include them in their application
setup.


System Requirements
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Visual FoxPro Runtime requires Windows 95 or Windows NT because it is a
32-bit application.  You may install it on Windows 3.x if you have the
Win32s installed.


How to Install the Visual FoxPro runtime
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To install the program, unzip the contents of the FOXRUN.ZIP file to
a temporary directory and run SETUP.EXE.  This will take you through the
software installation.  A program group should be created for you in your
Start menu (under Windows 95 and NT) or a Program Group (under Windows 3.x)
which consists of a test Viusual FoxPro 5 application.  If a program group is
not created in your "Start" menu, then run the ADDRESS.EXE from the directory
where Visual FoxPro Runtime was installed or create a shortcut to FOXRUN.EXE
anywhere you want.  You will find information on this in the Win95 or WinNT 
help if you search under "Creating: Shortcuts".

If you do not see a small dialog box pop up when you run the Visual FoxPro
Runtime test application, then something isn't right.  You can contact me
at the e-mail address below.

The VFPTEST directory may be safely deleted after the installation.  It only
contains the test application and not any Visual FoxPro support files.


How to Purchase the FoxPro Runtime
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Visual Address Book is distributed as Freeware.


Contacting the Author and Technical Support
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If you encounter a problem, or have any questions, requests, or comments,
please send them to me, Chad J. Lemmer, via internet e-mail to clemmer@dwave.net.

Thank you and have a great day!
