Subject Re: database in Dropdown list From Gaetano <gaetanodd@hotmail.com> Date Tue, 18 Aug 2020 17:26:31 +1000 Newsgroups dbase.getting-started Thanks for your inputs Ken! On 18/08/2020 14:47, Ken Mayer wrote: > On 8/17/2020 2:25 PM, Gaetano wrote: >> There is one more query I have which I posted in the website group. >> Irrespective of the above mistakes, if I use the signup.exe file that >> came with dBase and put it under c:\xampp\cgi-bin, the web app >> signup.exe generates an access denied error. If I just rebuild the >> executable without any changes to the PRG or CC files, it works fine. >> The rebuilt executable is more than twice the size of the original >> one. Does that make sense to you? Is it a requirement to rebuild the >> EXE files for the program to work? If so, could you explain the reason? > > The web apps have to be .exe files ... as to why the size is different > between versions, I don't know. The reason for the rebuild most likely > has to do with what version the signup.exe was built under and the > runtime version of dBASE you have available. If they don't match, the > program won't run. > > One thing to note when rebuilding is that there are some web flags you > can use so that things like the resource.dll file (actually it might > need to be there for text strings) are not included, parts of dBASE that > deal with the user-interface as the UI is not standard dBASE, the that > kind of thing. Look at help for the BUILD command. That *might* explain > the difference in sizes of the .exe files. > > Ken >