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Article ID: 163933 - Last Review: October 16, 2002 - Revision: 1.1
FIX: Executable Error "<path> is not an object file"
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If you run an executable installed from disk images created by the Visual
FoxPro Setup Wizard, the following error message appears:
"<Path and file name to executable> is not an object file."
Note that the size of the executable installed on the destination machine
is larger than the original.
There are two possible workarounds to this situation:
- Distribute an additional file that is named alphabetically first. For
example, if there is only one file being distributed and it is named
"myexe.exe," add an additional file named "a.txt."
- If possible, use the NetSetup images instead of diskette images created
by the Setup Wizard.
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products
listed at the beginning of this article. This has been corrected in Visual
FoxPro 6.0.
The three criteria that cause this error are:
- The .EXE to distribute must be large enough to have the Setup Wizard
split it into separate files for distribution.
- The split files must spread across more than one diskette image.
- The .EXE file name must be the first file, alphabetically, of the
files being distributed via the Setup Wizard.
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 5.0a
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