PRB: Installation Errors Installing Visual FoxPro Applications (235262)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 3.0b
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 5.0a
  • Microsoft Visual FoxPro for Windows 6.0
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:
<appname> 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:
<appname> 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

MORE INFORMATION

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

  1. Create two new directories on your computer and place at least one file in the first directory (a bitmap or .txt file will do).
  2. Open one of the Visual FoxPro versions listed in the "applies to" section and issue the following from the Command window:
    SET FIXED ON
  3. 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.
  4. Finish the Setup Wizard and exit Visual FoxPro.
  5. Open Windows Explorer and navigate to the disk image directory created in step 1.
  6. 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.

REFERENCES

For additional information about using the Setup Wizard in Visual FoxPro, please click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

130664 HOWTO: Use the Setup Wizard in Professional Visual FoxPro

194434 HOWTO: Using the Setup Wizard in Visual FoxPro 6.0

For additional information about related errors when using the Setup Wizard in FoxPro for Windows 2.x, please click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

104349 PRB: Setup Wizard .INF File Contains a Bad Description Line

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Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:5/12/2003
Keywords:kbpending kbprb kbsetup kbwizard KB235262
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