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- FPPAT4.MSG, -p.o.-, Darwin BBS, 08/31/91
-
- Updating FoxPro by installing patches posted by Fox Software at
- Compuserve has become such a confusing exercise requiring you to be a
- brain surgeon or rocket scientist. The problem is there are so many
- bloody files due to things like Standard, Extended, Single-user, LAN,
- distribution kit, etc. etc. As if that were enough, Fox made things more
- complex by having two "baseline" products--July 12 & July 19.
- Consequently you needed a different patch depending on which baseline
- you had. Moreover, in the past, you had to reinstall the distribution
- kit after you apply the patch.
-
- Beginning with Patch 4 (to bring FP 2.0 to the Aug 29 version) Fox gives
- you a utility program PATCH.EXE which reads a supplied small .dbf
- (PATCH.DBF) and the various FoxPro programs you have installed, then
- tells you what patch files you need to bring your version to the current
- version. What you should do then is first download this ZIP file (I call
- FPPAT4.ZIP) containing PATCH.EXE/PATCH.DBF, then run
-
- PATCH -V
-
- in your FP subdirectory. See READ.ME file on this .zip for more info. I
- found that I didn't need to reinstall any distribution kit files over
- any files I had. BTW, CHNG4.LOG in this file summarizes what had been
- fixed in the 8/29 version.
-
- Good luck.
-