cannot find the transport program

[hbotnick]

I am working on an old foxpro 2.5 program.
When I try to modify a report, I get 'cannot find the transport program' error. The frx and frt files are from 1993 and I have them on a Windows 98 system and working from DOS. What may be causing this problem and how to fix it ?
THX

 

[tesar]

Your report probably call program or function "transport".
It may be either standalone transport.prg,
or func/proc in procedure file.
Try filer to find "transport".
If no find, "transport" is missing,
create it as dummy:
func transport
retu .T.
Tesar

 

[DSummZZZ]

You are probably missing TRANSPRT.PRG, or a reference to it. This is a procedure that takes a report or screen file from an older version of Fox, and converts it to the current version. In your case, the reports may have been written with Foxbase or FoxPro 1.02. A couple things to try; From a Fox command window do a display memory, and see what the "_TRANSPORT" variable says. A lot of programmers set this variable to "" (nothing). See if you can find TRANSPRT.PRG and if so, set the _TRANSPORT variable to the full path of where that .PRG is located.
You may have to find that routine on an old backup or somewhere, and put it back where Fox can find it.
Then again, you may have to recreate the reports.
Dave S.