We want to put an existing FMP5 database on to a CDrom as a read-only file, as part of a educational program and distribute it to about 1000 people.

Am I right in suggesting that FM developer7 is the correct program to use?

It is a simple database with no add-ons or relationships. It is intended for reading by windows only. Will it open and be read from the CDrom without downloading? Is this a legal use?

Rex

You have a number of problems here: FM Version 7 will not work with FM5 files without first converting to the new file structure. The second issue is that it needs to be a runtime, since the users will most likely not have FM installed as an application on their PCs. The last issue is that I believe that you can't open a runtime on a read-only device (the CDRom)...it would have to be installed on the hard drive, in which case you probably should use an installer to to it right.

Steve

I think it actually is possible to run a runtime from a CD.

See this discussion:

http://www.fmforums.com/threads/showflat...true#Post104969

You just can not have any single variable/field have any change in value. You would think that globals would be stored in memory, but noooo.

Although I've built a workaround for my distribution files that install, etc. The only file I install has minimum data and fields then references the cd for all other info.

Works for me. Data is 200mb+